Programs & Filings
Section 8, tax credits, exemptions and rent regulation — what each one requires, when it is due, and what it costs to be in it.
Programs & Filings is the subsidised and regulated side of a portfolio: the programmes a building can be in, the paperwork each one requires, and the dates that paperwork is due. It sits under Compliance in every portal and on both phone apps.
The five things it does
| Section | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Deadlines | Everything due, ordered by how close it is, with the consequence of missing each one. |
| Packets | One building, one agency, one filing — every document it needs and which are still missing. |
| Programs | What each building is enrolled in, and what that enrolment obliges you to do. |
| Find programmes | Which of the programmes available where you are would be worth applying for. |
| Billing | What the compliance fee is for each enrolment, before and after it is charged. |
Statutory, estimated, confirmed
Every date carries its basis, and the difference matters more than anything else on the screen. Statutory means the date is fixed in law or regulation. Estimated means we derived it from the programme’s cycle because the anchor it depends on — a placed-in-service date, a fiscal year end, a HAP anniversary — is something only your own contract knows. Confirmed means you checked it with the agency and told us.
An estimated date is badged everywhere it appears, including in the reminder email. Seayora will not present a date it derived as one fixed in statute, because an owner who commits capital against a wrong date has no way to discover the mistake until it is too late.
Reminders
Each lead you choose sends one reminder, once. An overdue filing sends exactly one more — a daily nag about something already missed trains people to ignore the channel.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Lead days | How far ahead you are warned. One reminder per lead. |
| Email, alert, push | Which channels carry it. Email is the record. |
| Add to my calendar | Every deadline becomes a calendar entry that moves if the date moves. |
| Only remind me at or above | Quiets the advance warnings below a severity. It never silences the overdue notice. |
| Remind me on estimated dates too | Turn it off and the advance nudges on derived dates stop. You are still told once if one passes. |
| Escalate to | A second address, copied on anything inside the window you set and on anything overdue. |
Nothing you set here can silence an overdue notice. That is the one that costs money, so it is outside the preference.
Enrolling a building
Enrolling puts the programme’s obligations on your calendar and starts the compliance fee where one applies. The exact fee, in words, is shown before you agree to it and you have to accept it explicitly — and the same resolver produces both the quote and the charge, so the quote is the invoice.
A closed programme is kept, not deleted
421-a is closed to new projects. Thousands of buildings are still inside it with live annual obligations, so the entry stays, marked as superseded, and its deadlines keep running.
What this is not
Seayora tracks these programmes so you know what exists, what it requires and when it is due. It is not legal or tax advice, and the administering agency is the authority on eligibility, amounts and dates. Seayora packages a filing; it never certifies or submits one.
Related guides
Related features and guides
- Finding programmes worth applying for — Documentation. Sixteen questions about a building, and a shortlist of the housing programmes worth a phone call — with the reason for each.
- Building Health Score — Documentation. What the building health score is made of, what each factor means, and what it deliberately does not claim.
- NYC Compliance Tools — Documentation. How Seayora helps track New York City compliance obligations for properties that operate there.
- Compliance Alerts & Required Filings — Feature. Seayora watches your properties for new violations and works out which recurring filings each building owes, turns both into a dated checklist, and emails you when something new appears. Live violation data for New York City; rule-based filing obligations across the NYC metro.
- Landlord Bookkeeping and Tax Prep: Get Organized Before April — Guide. How landlords can keep rental income and expenses organized all year, track deductible costs, and walk into tax season with clean records.
- Bank Feeds & Reconciliation — Feature. Connect bank feeds and reconcile transactions against the ledger, so what the books say and what the bank says actually match.