City of Cleveland Lead Safe Certification Changes / Updates

Previously, the City of Cleveland only required essentially a lead clearance test to show a property was clear of lead hazzards.  Because the number of cases of children with elevated blood levels had not reduced in the 2 1/2 years this program was implemented, the City is now requiring a full fledged Lead Risk Assessment.  This requires additional reporting, additional testing (2 sets of samples are now required), AND the landlord must also get tenant(s) signed disclosure that the tenants know about the Lead Risk Assessment report itself AND the work required to be done.  The disclosure and related work would then be updated as part of the city's rental registration portal.  An occupant license / rental registration would not be issued until the work is completed by a Lead Abatement Contractor and / or RRP Contractor.  The Lead Abatement Contractor is licensed with the State Health Dept.  The RRP Contractor is licensed with the US EPA.

This went into effect Oct 18, 2024.

Please be sure to understand.  At the end of the day, not only is the policy expanding, but the cost for the Lead Risk Assessment will triple to quadruple vs the previous lead clearance testing.

AND, the cost to do the remediation and or abatement work must now be supervised by a licensed individual vs shortcuts (a blind eye) that was done previously.

Lastly, the time to complete the lead safe certification process has likely tripled.


We are currently licensed Lead Risk Assessors.  Feel free to contact us at (216) 325-8505 for us to do this part of the job for you.

We are licensed as RRP (Repair, Renovate, Paint) US EPA contractors.  We are not yet licensed as Lead Abatement Contractors but we hope to be in the 1st quarter of 2025.  We can do RRP (and eventually Abatement work) on properties where someone else does the Lead Risk Assessment.  And vice verrsa.  For any of your lead safe compliance concerns, feel free to contact us at (216) 325-8505.


D & K Property Management Services
Karen Bostwick

(440) 590-5925

KarenMBostwick@yahoo.com

https://dkpropertymgmtsvcs.blogspot.com/

Broker License 2018002999



Bostwick Environmental Services, LLC

(216) 325-8505

BostwickLeadSafe@gmail.com


 

Metro Pest Control

(216) 312-7702

MetroPestControlOH@yahoo.com


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