Facts and research

No neighborhood or safety score

MySafePlace does not publish a Bad, OK, Good, Great, safe, unsafe, best-neighborhood, or similar combined area rating in this preview. A future public release must continue to use source-specific layers unless qualified Fair Housing and advertising review approves a different method. Payment, protected characteristics, demographic composition, and proxies for protected characteristics must not determine access, ranking, map treatment, or housing-ad delivery.

Research sources and interpretation

Published facts must come from sources MySafePlace has the right to use. Depending on location and availability, sources may include government and local-agency information, licensed data, news links, and clearly identified resident perspectives. Public visibility does not itself grant permission to scrape, copy, or commercially republish material.

Social posts and resident advice are perspectives, not verified facts or a survey of every resident. Court filings can contain claims that have not been proven. We distinguish allegations from court findings and outcomes when that information is available. Crime statistics describe reported or recorded incidents under each source’s methods; they do not capture every incident or explain every local circumstance. Sources can disagree, change, or have gaps.

Each published layer should show its source link, geographic unit, data period, retrieval or release date, coverage, uncertainty where available, and last-reviewed date. When evidence is unavailable or insufficient, the layer remains uncolored or unavailable instead of being guessed.

What is live in this preview

The current map displays Census geography and American Community Survey rent-burden estimates where available. Map colors represent only the labeled rent-burden bands. They are not safety, crime, school, desirability, or neighborhood-quality ratings.

Search currently provides in-app maps and links to external listing and information providers. It does not have a nationwide property feed, completed review system, paid subscription checkout, or production app/API licensing.

Business model, fees, and commission policy

Search and browsing are intended to stay free. Proposed Gold (Pro) at $14.99/month is for one personal listing with up to 20 photos. Proposed Platinum (Premium) at $29.99/month is for up to five personal listings with up to 20 photos each, a 3D tour through a contracted provider, and an owner inquiry section. Both require identity, phone, property-authority, rights, and human-review checks before publication. Separate fixed-price provider and data licenses are another planned revenue source. No listing plan, upload, tour creation, or checkout is active in this preview.

MySafePlace currently charges no commission on a home sale, rent payment, deposit, application fee, closing cost, or real-estate referral, and does not collect or distribute those transaction funds. If a future offer pays MySafePlace, including an affiliate link, paid placement, or partner fee, the relationship and any material fee will be disclosed next to the relevant offer. Before asking anyone to pay, the service will show the payer, amount or calculation, renewal or triggering event, cancellation/refund terms, and who receives the funds.

Transaction-based real-estate commissions will not be enabled until qualified counsel reviews state broker-licensing requirements and federal/state referral-fee restrictions. Stripe Connect is a payment-routing tool, not permission to charge any particular fee. Stripe fees, refunds, disputes, connected-account costs, tax, verification, support, and fraud losses reduce net revenue. No plan can be described as guaranteed profitable; pricing must be checked against real costs and pilot results.

Contact and response times

The homepage contact form collects a name (optional), email, phone number, reply preference, message, and the user's acceptance of the Terms. A database migration must be deployed before this form can store requests. Where storage is active, the configured pilot operator reviews messages manually; the response target is within 24 hours Monday through Friday. AI review and automatic email, text, or phone notifications are not connected. Do not include passwords, payment details, government identifiers, or sensitive information about someone else.

Planned Premium camera and traffic tabs

The Premium plan is intended to include a Flock camera information tab covering the types of camera information made available through an authorized integration, which may include camera details, events, status, metadata, and eligible live or recorded footage. These integrations are not connected in the current preview. A Premium subscription by itself will not grant camera access. A user must have the account permissions and sharing authorization required for the specific information. GodsEYE’s public site describes live aviation, maritime, CCTV, seismic, wildfire, and other intelligence layers; we have not confirmed a road-traffic feed or a MySafePlace integration/API permission. The exact layers, geography, freshness, and access will depend on the authorized integration. Source and timestamp information should accompany any active feed.

Independent reviews and paid listings

In the planned service, paid listing placement and monthly provider licenses will be identified as advertising and will not affect evidence, source treatment, or organic relevance. Reviews are intended to reflect genuine experience and honest opinion. A verified provider may reply, but payment will not buy removal of a truthful critical review. Reviews, provider verification, and these advertising tools are not active in this preview.

Sources we consulted for these policies

• FBI: crime data comparability and limits on simplistic area comparisons
• FBI: variables affecting reported crime and the need for local context
• FTC: Consumer Reviews and Testimonials Rule questions and answers
• FTC: tenant screening, housing court records, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act
• HUD: housing advertising through digital platforms
• FTC: subscription disclosures, consent, and cancellation guidance
• CFPB: RESPA Section 8 referral-fee guidance
• Ohio Revised Code § 4735.01: real-estate broker definition and § 4735.20: limits on broker commissions to unlicensed people
• Stripe Connect: charge types, fee payer, refunds, and disputes and application fees and platform fee economics
• Flock Safety privacy policy and Flock privacy, access, and data controls
• GodsEYE live dashboard reference and GodsEYE public product overview

These references inform product safeguards; they are not endorsements or a substitute for the terms of any data provider. The GodsEYE page is a product reference, not confirmation that MySafePlace has stream/API rights. Laws and source policies vary and can change.

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