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How do refunds and the Compliance Watch guarantee work?
30-day full refund, any reason. And if a license on your watch list expires without a reminder from us, your next year is free.
30-day full refund, any reason: contact us within 30 days of purchase and we refund the subscription in full.
A license on your watch list is the rental license of a property under an active Compliance Watch subscription whose expiration date was present in City records at least 60 days before it passed.
To claim, email support within 30 days of the expiration date with the property address. We check our delivery log for the 60-, 30- and 7-day reminders and, if none was sent, credit your next subscription year.
If you bought the former $29 audit, its credit toward Compliance Watch is honored on request — email support. Grandfathered monthly subscriptions keep the refund terms they were sold with; email support with the property address to claim.
If our software incorrectly presents a supported public record because of our error, we will re-run the check, correct the report, and refund your latest payment. Guarantee requests are reviewed by our support team; include the property address and the expiration or purchase date.
These guarantees are refund promises about our own detection and reminders. They do not promise legal compliance, City approval, a successful license renewal, or the accuracy of the City's underlying records.
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Philly Rental Compliance is an independent service, not the City of Philadelphia or a law firm. Answers about City rules summarize the City's published requirements as general information, not legal advice; requirements change, and future-effective provisions need a current check of implementation and litigation status. For legal questions about your situation, talk to a licensed Pennsylvania attorney.
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Preview your rental-license status, recorded expiry and counts of items needing attention (free, in about 30 seconds, with a copy by email). Compliance Watch adds the full record details, next steps, reminders and supported-source rechecks, from $99/year.