Sell a House When Tenants Aren't Paying Rent in Pompano Beach, FL

Rent stops, but nothing else does. The mortgage on the Cresthaven duplex still draws on the first. The Citizens premium, around the $2,916 Broward average, still renews. The tax bill on a rental with no homestead exemption still climbs under the 10 percent non-homestead cap. On a house from Pompano Beach's 1974 median build year, there is usually something else breaking at the same time. Florida's answer is a 3-day notice followed by a county court filing, and done correctly it moves. Done with a tenant who contests, or with one wrong date on the notice, it drags, and every week of drag is another week of paying for a house someone else lives in.

Pompano Beach Cash Buyers buys houses with non-paying tenants across Pompano Beach and North Broward, with the tenancy and any pending case exactly where they are. You sell, we become the landlord, and the notice, the filing, the cleanout and the repairs are ours. This page explains how to count the 3-day notice, where the case is filed, what transfers when you sell with rent owed, the carrying costs that keep running, and how to weigh finishing the eviction against selling now.

Florida Statute 83.56(3) requires a written 3-day notice to pay the rent or vacate before a nonpayment eviction can be filed. The three days exclude Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, so a notice served on a Friday does not expire on Monday. The notice must state the rent due and be delivered as the statute requires. A notice with the wrong amount or the wrong date gives the tenant grounds to have the case dismissed, and the clock restarts. One wrinkle: a late fee is collectible only as the lease states it, so a tenant's lawyer may ask what the lease says. Broward's 2022 tenant ordinances no longer apply; the state preempted them on July 1, 2023. If you sell before serving anything, we serve the notice as the new owner with our own dates and our own count.

If the tenant neither pays nor leaves within the three days, the next step is an eviction filed in Broward County Court. Pompano Beach landlords use the Central Courthouse at 201 SE 6th Street in Fort Lauderdale or the North Regional Courthouse at 1600 W Hillsboro Blvd in Deerfield Beach, the branch nearest the city. Possession cases run under a summary procedure designed to move faster than ordinary lawsuits. If the court rules for the landlord, it enters a judgment for possession and issues a writ of possession, which the Broward Sheriff's Office carries out. Unpaid rent is a separate money claim, and collecting it is a separate effort. A tenant who files a defense, or a defective notice, adds time at every step. Many owners sell at the point where the first filing has already stalled.

You can sell at any point in this process. The lease, written or month-to-month, continues with the new owner. The deposit transfers under Statute 83.49, with the tenant told in writing who holds it. A case already filed in Broward County Court can in most situations be continued by the new owner stepping into the landlord's place; your attorney confirms the step for your file. Any notice you served stays effective for the period it covers. The rent the tenant owes through closing remains your claim to pursue or forgive; we do not buy the debt and we do not ask you to credit it. The offer prices the house as occupied, with the arrears and the case as they stand. From the closing date, the tenant deals with Pompano Beach Cash Buyers, not you.

While the rent is zero, the rental's costs are not. There is no homestead exemption on a rental, so the assessed value can rise up to 10 percent a year. Broward property taxes are due by March 31 and delinquent April 1, and the Tax Collector sells a tax certificate on the parcel on or before June 1, which is redeemed with a minimum 5 percent charge. If the mortgage falls behind, a Florida foreclosure is judicial: the lender files a lawsuit and records a lis pendens, a public notice that the house is in litigation, in the county records. A sale that pays the lender in full before the clerk's sale leads the lender's attorney to cancel the sale and dismiss the case. Tell us everything that is behind. It changes the settlement statement, not whether we buy.

The finish-and-list path has four stages with a cost at each. More months without rent during the case. The repairs a non-paying tenant leaves behind on a 1974-era house. Then a listing: Pompano Beach homes took two to three months to sell this year against about seven months of supply, with sales closing at roughly 92 to 96 percent of asking. Then a commission of about $23,000 on a sale near the $385,000 median and a financed buyer's closing. The sell-now path stops the loss at closing, in about a week once title is clear, with no repairs, no listing and no commission. Our offer is below what an empty, renovated house would list for. Compare it with the finish-and-list net after the next three months of unpaid rent, not with the list price.

Send the address, the lease terms, the amount owed and the status of any notice or filing. We arrange whatever visit is possible under Statute 83.53, which needs the tenant's consent for a showing, or we work from the exterior and your description. We deliver a written offer within 24 hours of the visit. When you accept, the Broward County title company opens the file, documents the deposit transfer, pays off the mortgage and any liens from the price, and closes in about a week once title is clear. We pay the customary closing costs, and there is no commission. If the tenant is one month behind and otherwise reliable, a payment plan may serve you better and we will say so. If the rent has stopped for good, the offer ends the loss.

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