Himu Rush

Chicago, Illinois, United States

The Legal Runners is an industry provides with different services related to authorization of real estates and its commodities. They are helping legal and real estate professionals from many years to solve different problems related to authorization, licensing, certification, document recording etc.

One of their services is Chicago water certification. To take clearance of all water and sewer charges and penalties a full payment certificate is required and it is given by the City of Chicago Water Department. To obtain the City of Chicago Real Property Transfer Tax stamps it is a must to have the Full Payment Certificate and the Chicago Real Property Transfer Tax stamps is required to record the property deed. In those cases Legal Runner helps to navigate the City of Chicago Water Department and serves Chicago Water Certification.

FPC is required for several purposes

To obtain the City of Chicago Real Property Transfer Tax stamps
To transfer real property whether such transfers are subject to or exempt from the City of Chicago Real Property Transfer Tax

It requires $50 additional bill for FPC with final water bill and it’s free if this property is exempt from the Real Property Transfer Tax. If FPC is not obtained, both the transferor and the transferee will be charged for outstanding water and sewer. All of this is under Chicago Water Certification Services.

There are two types of accounts for Full Payment Certificate

Metered: This type of accounts is assigned to properties that have water meter and they are billed according to the usage of water. Sometimes the Department of Water Management unable to obtain the actual meter reading and gives an estimated bill.
Non-Mitered: Mon-Metered account properties do not have a water meter and are charged at a flat rate every six months. Non-metered accounts obtain FPC quickly then metered accounts.

Services other then Chicago Water Certification Services of Legal Runner are

Building Permit Expediting and City Licensing: In case of building permit expedition and licensing Legal Runner helps to navigate the authority to get license.
Document Recordings: The City of Chicago Real Property Transfer T