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Lead Safe Certification New Jersey's NEWEST Lead Paint law
Attention NJ Landlords
It’s here! NJ’s NEWEST lead-based paint law is now in effect and directly targets ALL pre-1978 rental properties. This new law is being referred to as, New Jersey’s Lead Safe Certification and will require lead-paint inspections, (visual and/or dust wipes) on all non-exempt rental properties at turnover.
NJ DCA official site link
What You Need to Know
The law states that the landlord MUST hire a certified lead evaluation contractor to perform inspections of certain single-family, two-family, and multiple rental dwellings for lead-based paint hazards every three years or upon tenant turnover.
If you have not tested for lead based paint and the property is pre-1978 original construction, the law states you must assume it is lead-based paint, which can be an expensive and costly lack of knowledge. Know where your lead paint is and focus your unit turnover hazard correction treatments on those areas and properly document in compliance with the requirements of this new Lead Safe Certification Rule.
ETS offers the following services to meet this NEW requirements For NJ Landlord Compliance.
1. Visual Lead Safe Certificate: The certified inspector will conduct a visual inspection to the interior and exterior of the home and look for chipping, peeling, and flaking paint. If the paint in the home is acceptable, the owner will be issued a Lead Safe Certificate good for two years.
2. Dust Wipe Testing for Lead Safe Certificate:The certified inspector will conduct a visual inspection and take dust wipe samples in the home and send to a certified lab for analysis. If the lab results come back satisfactory, the owner will be issues a Lead Safe Certificate good for two years.
What type of Lead Safe Certificate does your municipality require?
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Bonus!
ETS will do a FREE analysis of your home to see if it might qualify for a Lead-Free Certification (Valid FOREVER).
ETS strategy for New Jersey Landlord compliance (NEW)
The ETS inspector will conduct a full lead paint inspection using XRF in the home to identify any areas that contain lead paint. If the results of the test determine that NO lead has been found, a Lead Free Certificate (valid forever) will be issued.
If the home is determined to contain lead paint, the inspector will take the required number of dust wipes needed to achieve a lead safe certification.
Benefits of This Full Lead Paint Inspection
1. The owner will know exactly what areas in the home that contain the lead paint. The owner will then know the areas in the home that the lead laws apply to. If there are any future violations or complaints on a certain area where the paint is chipping or flaking, the owner will know if he or she needs to address it. For example: if a wall or window has chipping paint and it has already been tested by XRF to be negative, then the owner will NOT be required to paint these areas.
2. Just because the home is older than 1978 doesn’t mean that there is lead paint still in the home. In many cases, older homes may have had multiple renovations throughout its lifetime and the original lead paint has been removed or mostly removed each time the home was worked on. Without an XRF Inspection, the owner has to always assume that the home has lead paint and deal with all the lead requirements. Also, selling a home that has been deemed “Lead Free” will be a good selling incentive for the next buyer.
3. We will send All reports to the owner (client) and to no one else. The owner will be responsible to send any required paperwork and certificates to the township. ETS has no obligations to notify any other parties other than our client.
4. If a rental unit is part of an apartment building, then a Lead Free Certificate can be issued for the private use for your tenants but may not be valid for the new state requirement unless additional testing of common areas in the building are also tested. The XRF inspection in the unit will also benefit the owner if there are any paint violations in their apartment.
2. Just because the home is older than 1978 doesn’t mean that there is lead paint still in the home. In many cases, older homes may have had multiple renovations throughout its lifetime and the original lead paint has been removed or mostly removed each time the home was worked on. Without an XRF Inspection, the owner has to always assume that the home has lead paint and deal with all the lead requirements. Also, selling a home that has been deemed “Lead Free” will be a good selling incentive for the next buyer.
3. We will send All reports to the owner (client) and to no one else. The owner will be responsible to send any required paperwork and certificates to the township. ETS has no obligations to notify any other parties other than our client.
4. If a rental unit is part of an apartment building, then a Lead Free Certificate can be issued for the private use for your tenants but may not be valid for the new state requirement unless additional testing of common areas in the building are also tested. The XRF inspection in the unit will also benefit the owner if there are any paint violations in their apartment.
Here at ETS, we understand all the obstacles that sellers, buyers, and landlords encounter in minimizing the costs to increase profits when dealing with real estate transactions and rental requirements.
ETS has been working with homeowners and investors since 2005, and we will guide you through the mandatory requirements in a timely, and cost effective manner.
ETS has been working with homeowners and investors since 2005, and we will guide you through the mandatory requirements in a timely, and cost effective manner.
ETS has been working with homeowners and investors since 2005, and we will guide you through the mandatory requirements in a timely, and cost effective manner.
Call ETS at 1-866-226-2114 or request a lead inspection today.