Municipal integration · Art. 4.011
The Municipal Code already requires your municipality to keep a public nuisance inventory, updated quarterly and published on digital platforms. Estorbos.com is the infrastructure that publishes it, receives your residents' reports, and organizes acquisition requests. Your team keeps every decision.
Requesting information commits the municipality to nothing.
All 78 municipalities already have a page on the platform. What integrating changes is who controls what appears on it.
The legal framework
None of these obligations start with us. They come from the Municipal Code, and your team meets them with or without a platform. We are one way to meet them without building technology in-house.
With its location, registry description, cadastral number, owner, and appraised value. The inventory is public information.
The 2024 reform added the duty to update it quarterly and publish it on digital platforms or high-reach public networks.
If your municipality sells at public auction, the process and its rules must be public and noticed. We publish the calendar, the rules, and the awards.
Publishing the inventory on the platform replaces none of your municipality's official channels: it adds to them. There is no exclusivity.
Your municipality, today
All 78 municipalities have had a page from day one. Pick yours to see what is on it right now, including the reports your own residents have already filed.
You can also see the full map on Explore municipalities. Explore municipalities
The process, end to end
The beginning and the end are the same on all three paths. What changes in the middle is what the platform publishes and organizes underneath each one.
Citizens report abandoned properties with photos and location. We enrich the report with CRIM data and deliver the file to the municipality, ready for inspection.
Art. 4.008Your team decides what to declare, under your own authority, after notice and the opportunity for a hearing. Same in all three paths.
Art. 4.008 · 4.009 · 4.010A citizen starts it
We receive the letters with a timestamp. Your team sees them complete and in order of arrival, in one list, instead of in scattered calls.
The municipality starts it · Law 114-2024
We document who showed interest and when, with CRIM data and the purpose each person states, in an order of arrival nobody can move.
The municipality starts it · by ordinance
We publish the calendar, the official rules, and the awards. And the auction runs live, online, for anyone who cannot be in the plaza that day.
If the buyer does not rehabilitate the property within one (1) year of the transfer, your municipality can recover it through retracto convencional under the Civil Code. Protects communities against real estate speculation.
Art. 4.014 · Civil CodeLegal basis: Act 107-2020 (Municipal Code), as amended by Acts 114-2024 and 97-2026. Each municipality implements the Code through its own regulation adopted by ordinance.
The auction, live
An auction in the plaza on a Tuesday at ten is open to whoever can be in the plaza on a Tuesday at ten. The platform adds the digital side: the same auction, at the same hour, from anywhere in Puerto Rico or the United States.
The board runs in real time. Every bid enters with a timestamp and shows up at once for everyone watching, whether they are in the plaza or in Orlando.
There are more Puerto Ricans off the island than on it, and many of the people who want that house are from that same street. Not being able to catch a flight on a Tuesday should not take them out of the auction.
Every bid, with its hour and its bidder, stays public. It is the answer to the one question a municipality gets asked after an auction.
Your municipality holds the auction, with the rules, the reserve, and the requirements its ordinance sets. We provide the platform the digital side runs on, in real time, and the record of what happened there. We do not set the price, decide who qualifies, hold money, or issue the deed.
The division of labor
Every administrative and legal decision belongs to the municipality. We publish and organize.
And never: we are not real estate brokers, we do not buy or sell properties and have no affiliates that do, we do not register liens, we do not appraise, we do not legally represent the municipality, we do not handle buyer funds, and we never appear in the chain of title. Title goes straight from the municipality to the acquirer.
Day-to-day work
All of it eats staff hours your municipality already has committed elsewhere.
Quoting and maintaining your own digital platform to publish the inventory.
Publication runs on our side, with no budget line and no technical staff.
Taking complaints by phone, by message, and at the counter, each one incomplete.
Every report arrives with photos, exact location, and a description, in one format.
Looking up cadastral number and owner in CRIM for every complaint, one by one.
The CRIM cross-check is already done when the file reaches your desk.
Answering calls and visits asking where a property or a letter stands.
Residents check status themselves, with a date and a reference number.
Relying on a social media post as your evidence of compliance.
A public, permanent, dated page, indexed and citable.
Arguing over who showed interest in a property first.
An order of arrival, timestamped, that nobody can move.
What happens if you say yes
No technology project, no budget line, no new staff. This is everything that happens.
We reply to your institutional email with what you asked for: what is published for your municipality today, what it would take to publish the inventory, and the text of the collaborative agreement if you want to read it. Nothing is signed at this step.
A short document. Your legal counsel reviews it for as long as needed. No cost, no exclusivity, cancellable with 60 days' notice by either party.
Your team sends the inventory in whatever format you have it: spreadsheet, PDF, or list. We structure it and publish it on your municipality's page.
Citizen reports enriched with CRIM data, and acquisition requests organized by date. Your team decides what to do with each one.
Before you decide
If one is missing, write to us and we will answer it by email.
The next step
It takes under a minute. We reply in writing with whatever your team asked for, to the institutional email you give us.
Every property that returns to a family's hands is one less abandoned house in your town. That is the only outcome we care to measure.