Montgomery County MD Housing License Portfolio Status Monitor

Watch a named book of Montgomery County, Maryland housing licensenumber values against the official Housing Licensing and Registration Socrata dataset (et5s-xste). Emit billable portfolio events only when something changes.

Who this is for

KYB / landlord-compliance / insurer / lender / PropTech desks that need watchlist events when a named Montgomery County rental housing license appears, drops, or changes licensestatus (Licensed / Unlicensed / Pending / Revoked/Suspended / Denied / …) or license type / structure / ownership / address.

What you get

Event	When
APPEARED	Watched license newly present on the published Housing Licensing extract
DROPPED	Watched license absent from the current extract (honest republish lag)
STATUS_CHANGED	licensestatus changed (Licensed / Unlicensed / Pending / Revoked/Suspended / Denied / …)
Attribute events	License type / structure type / ownership / address (opt-in via signalGroups)
RUN_STATUS	Non-billable health (FIXTURE_HEALTH / MONITOR_IDLE / CATCHUP_COMPLETE)

Pricing (PPE)

• Primary: montgomery-housing-license-status-event-delivered @ $0.02 per unique change event
• Start: apify-actor-start @ $0.00005
• Quiet books with no changes → MONITOR_IDLE only (no event charges)

Not this Actor

• Not NYC DOB trades licenses (#75) / NYC DCWP Issued Licenses (#71) / DE POL (#73) / WA DOH (#72) / Calgary getbusid (#74)
• Not a short-term rental (STR) permit lead scraper
• Not a citywide Montgomery housing dump billed as rows — watchlist SoQL only
• Not occupational / contractor licence monitors for other agencies

Input

Provide licenseNumbers (digits). Optional aliases: licenses, licenseNos. Set sourceMode to live for production polls against Montgomery County Open Data.

PRODUCTION USE

{
  "licenseNumbers": ["11825", "42308", "73091"],
  "signalGroups": ["directory", "status"],
  "sourceMode": "live",
  "resumeFromCheckpoint": true,
  "maxRunSeconds": 180,
  "maxEvents": 500
}

Default Store / health path uses sourceMode=fixture with emitFixtureDemoEvents=false (non-billable FIXTURE_HEALTH row only).

Cadence honesty

As-of dates follow Montgomery County Open Data / Socrata republish (rowsUpdatedAt / Last-Modified when present). The published dataset description states it is updated annually — schedule monitors accordingly; do not claim realtime.

Limitations

• Official open dataset only; no County login or private landlord portal.
• Absent IDs emit DROPPED against the current published extract (honest lag).
• Status vocabulary is whatever Montgomery publishes (Licensed, Unlicensed, Pending, Revoked/Suspended, Denied, …).