Free: first look
Input: browse the public board.
Lots: the published board.
Output: public county facts and screening signals.
Turnaround: view online.
Price: $0.
Excludes: a lot-specific emailed screen or paid packet.
3 free checks on one lot
For a Miami-Dade or Broward tax-deed lot, enter a folio or case number. See sale status, opening bid and parcel facts with their sources. No email needed.
Not an address search. Palm Beach is not covered by this free preview. Missing records stay unverified. The $29 manual Quick Check below is optional.
$29 Quick Check: one lot, before you bid
For one Broward, Miami-Dade, or Palm Beach tax-deed lot you get:
- Our screen verdict (REJECT or REVIEW) with the public-record reasons.
- Title and lien red flags from public records (clerk official-records and code-citation link-outs, read for your lot).
- The 1–99 score with plain-English reasons, like the free board.
- Our lien-survival check: what’s recorded against the lot and what can survive the deed (Fla. Stat. 197.552 caveats, cited).
- A one-line crowding read: why this lot is priced where it is and what the crowd may be missing.
- A zoning / land-use check against your stated plan (rezoning assumptions flagged as assumptions).
Not included: the full $100 packet (three-case math, the source-by-source write-up, up to 5 lots). Compare.
Choose the depth of your screen
$29 Quick Check
Input: one auction lot plus complete intake and payment.
Lots: one.
Output: public-record red flags, REJECT / REVIEW verdict and score with reasons, plus the lien-survival card and a one-line crowding read on every result.
Turnaround: emailed within 24 hours after payment and complete intake.
Price: $29.
Excludes: the $100 packet, three-case math and full source-by-source write-up.
$100 packet
Input: auction lots plus complete intake and payment.
Lots: up to five.
Output: source sheet, three-case bid math, REJECT / REVIEW verdict, named unknowns and next diligence steps.
Turnaround: emailed within 24 hours after payment and complete intake.
Price: $100 flat.
Excludes: a title search, appraisal, legal advice or promise of profit.
All three are screening research, not a title search, appraisal, legal advice or a buy signal. Quick Check details · Packet scope and refunds.
Ran your checks and the property still looks worth chasing? The next step up is the full screening desk, which runs the whole pre-bid screen for you, every property, every sale. Same method, done for you.
What happens to the liens?
The county’s final bid covers the taxes and costs it sold for, but not every recorded lien automatically disappears. Some liens and interests are wiped by a tax deed; others, like certain government liens and restrictions, can survive it. Which ones survive depends on the property and the case. That’s exactly what the quick-check screens: the recorded matters that would still be there after you win, so you know before you bid. We cite the county record and the Florida statute for each finding and tell you when a case is one to walk away from. Nothing here is legal advice; we screen the record, a title professional closes the question.
See Fla. Stat. 197.552 (what survives a tax deed) and 197.582 (how lien proceeds are handled). Read the statute; we’re not your lawyer.
Who gets the surplus money?
If the final bid at a tax-deed sale exceeds what the sale needed to cover, the extra is called surplus. The statute says how it’s distributed: government units holding liens of record get paid first, and other qualifying claimants can claim a share through the process the clerk runs. As a bidder, you’re paying the bid, not collecting the surplus - but the surplus picture is part of what the quick-check screens, because it tells you how much recorded money is already stacked against the property before you bid. We cite the county record and the statute for what we find. Nothing here is legal advice; a title professional closes the title question.
See Fla. Stat. 197.582 (surplus after a tax deed sale) and 197.552 (what survives the deed). Read the statute; we’re not your lawyer.
Delivered by email within 24 hours after both payment and complete intake.
Guarantee: delivered before the sale or your $29 back. For new orders under these terms, payment and complete intake must reach us at least 24 hours before the county's scheduled auction start. Earlier orders keep the terms they were sold under. Terms.
Your walk-away number
Set your number before the bidding starts.
Free calculator for any lot. Enter your own numbers; we subtract the surviving liens and your closing + quiet-title cost.
Screening research from public records, not a title search, appraisal, or legal advice. Tax-deed lots are sold as-is. Auctions can be cancelled or redeemed up to the sale. Verify everything with the county and your own advisers before you bid.