6 Florida counties liveFla. Stat. 197.582

Surplus research that survives 
an audit. 

Recovery firms lose money two ways: chasing cases with nothing left after senior liens, and missing the window on the good ones. We hand you verified case files where every field is traced to the county document it came from — surplus amount, owner of record, recorded encumbrances, and the day the clock actually runs out.

No card. Sample covers one county of your choosing. Audit it against the clerk before you pay us anything.

Aerial view of a Florida residential neighborhood of single-family parcels
SURPLUS HELD · $41,286.73
Monitored dailySarasota Co.
Case TD-2024-0418day 74 / 120
$41,286.73
Notice mailed 2025-11-14Closes 2026-03-14
6 / 6 fields sourced
Each traced to a clerk document
Sarasota CountyPasco CountyPolk CountyBrevard CountyMarion CountyHillsborough CountySarasota CountyPasco CountyPolk CountyBrevard CountyMarion CountyHillsborough County
01 — The artifact

This is what you actually buy. Open it.

Not a CSV of names and dollar figures. A case file where every value has a document, a page and a quoted span behind it. Click any source line below and read the original text.

TD-2024-0418Sarasota County
Clerk-heldDay 120 · 2026-03-14Illustrative sample
Surplus held
$41,286.73
Days remaining
48
Fields with source
6 / 6
Parcel
0058-06-0017
Sale date
2025-09-02
Sale proceeds
$118,400.00
Statutory disbursements
$77,113.27
Owner of record
ESTATE OF M. R. HOLLAND
Competing recorded interests
HOA lien · second mortgage

Encumbrances are reported as recorded facts with book and page. We do not rank priority, net out competing interests, or estimate recoverable value. Those determinations are yours and your counsel's.

02 — The clock

Most dead claims died on day one.

Anchored to the sale date instead of the notice mailing date, a case can look like it has seventy days left when it has fourteen. We calculate from the certificate of service and re-check it daily. Try it with your own dates.

Wrong anchor. Sale date is not the trigger. The mailing of notice is.

Silent expiry. Nobody tells you when a window closes. The list just stops being useful.

Stale status. Funds get disbursed mid-research. Daily re-checks catch it.

Open the full tool
120-day window calculator

Enter the notice mailing date.

Under Fla. Stat. 197.582, the surplus claim window runs from the date the clerk mailed notice — not the sale date. Getting that anchor wrong is the single most common reason a claim arrives dead.

Day 120 falls on
2026-12-02
Days remaining
46 days
Day 0Day 90 · practical cutoffDay 120

Comfortable runway. This is the band where probate cross-matching and entity research still fit inside the window.

Arithmetic tool only. Statutory periods, tolling and county practice change — verify the controlling deadline with the clerk and your counsel before relying on it. Not legal advice.

03 — The method

Five stages. No guessing in any of them.

Ingest

Clerk surplus register and the underlying tax deed file, on a daily schedule.

Extract

Amounts, names and mailing dates parsed from the original PDFs with page-level spans.

Cross-match

Probate dockets, official records and the property appraiser roll, joined on parcel and name.

Verify

Each field re-read against its source. Unsourced values are dropped, never guessed.

Monitor

Re-checked daily for disbursement, amount revision and change of status.

Read the full method
04 — By the numbers

The constraints we actually hold ourselves to.

Operating parameters
Monitoring activeUpdated daily
01
120
Day statutory window

Measured from the notice mailing date, tracked per case, re-checked every run.

Day 090120
02
100%
Fields with source evidence

No unsourced values. If we cannot cite the document and page, it does not ship.

6 of 6
fields cited
03
Daily
Change monitoring

Amount revisions, disbursements and status changes, caught before they cost analyst hours.

Last 7 runs
04
6
Counties live

Sarasota, Pasco, Polk, Brevard, Marion and Hillsborough, each with its own adapter.

More on request
05
Building
Case file index

Sarasota adapter is in build. Counties go live only after fifty cases are run by hand.

Stage 2 of 5 · extract
06
None
Claims we file

We research. Contact, preparation and representation stay with you and your counsel.

No outreachNo filing
06 — Straight answers

Questions a buyer should ask.

Audit us before you pay us.

Name a county. We send 25 verified case files with evidence attached, free. Check them against the clerk yourself. If they do not hold up, walk away.

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