The Ledger — Florida
Florida’s tax deed surplus, read from the clerks’ own records and sold to exactly one buyer.
When a Florida property sells at tax deed auction for more than the tax debt, the Clerk of Court holds the difference for the former owner. One notice goes to the house they just lost. Then the money sits.
Sixty-seven clerks publish that surplus in sixty-seven formats. We read all of them every day, resolve the titleholder against official records, scan for senior liens, and estimate what reaches the former owner.
- Counties read
- 4 of 67, from the clerks' own lists
- Records in the Ledger
- 256
- Liens
- unverified today — no Net-to-Owner is estimated
- Floor
- $25,000 or more, or it is never sold
- Exclusivity
- 60-day claim lock, one buyer
- Claims we file
- 0
Search it free by name, parcel or certificate number. No signup, no card, no email asked for.
Record sheet — what a claim lock unredacts
- Surplus
- $41,200
- Sale date
- 2025-11-04
- Notice date
- 2025-11-18
- 120-day lienholder bar
- closed 2026-03-17
- Escheat
- not due
- Net-to-Owner
- $38,900
- Grade
- A — senior liens cleared
- Titleholder of record
- Tax deed no.
- Parcel no.
- Lien detail
- Clerk filing route
- Claim form
The floor
$25,000
Surplus pays senior liens before it reaches the titleholder. A $60,000 surplus behind a $58,000 mortgage is a wasted week, and nothing in the clerk’s published list tells you which one you are looking at.
So only records with a Net-to-Owner of $25,000 or more are ever sold. Everything below stays searchable, free, for the people it belongs to.
Two agreements, set by your licence.
In Florida, only attorneys, CPAs and licensed private investigators may be paid to recover this money. The agreement you sign is decided by which one you are.
Florida attorneys and law firms
- What they sign
- Bar Agreement — a flat data licence
- At checkout
- $499 per record
- Owed afterwards
- Nothing, ever
Florida CPAs and licensed private investigators
- What they sign
- Representative Agreement
- At checkout
- $99 lock fee
- Owed afterwards
- 6% of gross recovery
Former owners, on their own money
- What they sign
- Nothing to sign
- At checkout
- $0
- Owed afterwards
- Nothing, now or later
Flat for attorneys because Rule 4-5.4(a) of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar forbids a lawyer from sharing legal fees with a nonlawyer. There are no plans, no tiers and no seats.
How a record reaches the Ledger.
- 01
Sweep
Every county clerk's unclaimed surplus publication, read in whatever shape it arrives: PDF, HTML table, spreadsheet.
- 02
Resolve
The titleholder of record matched against the clerk's official records by parcel and tax deed number.
- 03
Read the liens
Senior mortgages scanned, homestead and probate flagged. Not running yet: every record in the Ledger today is marked “Liens unverified”, never guessed.
- 04
Estimate, then floor
Until the lien read ships, the $25,000 floor is applied to the balance the clerk publishes. Below it stays free and searchable. Above it, the record sells once.
Every displayed figure carries the date it was last verified. A record whose funds have been paid out is marked Retired, and a retirement is the proof the data was good.
Where we stand
- We never contact a former owner.
- We never file a claim, and we are never anyone’s representative.
- We never sell the same record twice.
We are the supplier. That is the whole design: we cannot appear on the other side of a case our own customers are working.
The Ledger is open. 256 records, $3.4M held by the clerks.
Free to search by name, parcel or certificate number. Your first record is free, and a former owner never pays us anything.
No signup, no card, no email.