What are the things only I can confirm?

They are requirements City records can't settle for your property, such as whether the right entity holds a Commercial Activity License, business-tax (BIRT) standing, whether a lead certificate covers your exact unit, your Managing Agent and, if you live outside Philadelphia, Local Agent designations, and whether each tenant received the Certificate of Rental Suitability and the other required documents. Rental-license status and L&I violations are published records we can read and re-check. The City's published tax data carries current balances only as area totals, never per parcel, and a property's balance is on the Philadelphia Tax Center, so that one is yours to confirm too.

We don't guess either way: marking a lead certificate we can't see as passed could hide a gap until it blocks a license renewal, and marking it failed would flag a property that may be in order. So the product draws the line explicitly: City records get checked and re-checked, while the things only you can confirm are named, explained, and handed to you with the recommended way to answer each one.

In Compliance Watch, the things only you can confirm sit beside facts read from City records without being confused for them. Each prompt explains why the requirement may matter, what confirming it looks like, and the relevant official resource. An unknown answer stays unresolved and may create a task; it is never silently converted into a pass or failure. Monitoring covers the City's public records only. It can't see private records or the things only you can confirm.