Sell a Pompano Beach, FL house with tenants in place: how the lease and deposit transfer under Florida Statute 83.49, the entry rules in 83.53, the 30-day notice rule in 83.57, and why a good tenant can stay. Written offer within 24 hours of the visit.
A Pompano Beach landlord with a good tenant has a different problem than one with a bad tenant. The tenant in the Kendall Green house pays on the first, the lease runs into next year, and you want to sell anyway. Maybe you are moving out of Florida. Maybe the Citizens renewal came in near the insurer's approved 2026 Broward average of $2,916, and without a homestead exemption the assessed value can climb up to 10 percent a year on non-school taxes. The standard advice is to wait out the lease, serve notice, paint and list. That notice has its own rules under Florida law, and the listing means months without rent while Pompano Beach homes take two to three months to sell. Selling with the tenant in place is an option many owners are never told about.
Pompano Beach Cash Buyers buys tenant-occupied houses, condos and townhomes across Pompano Beach and North Broward with fixed-term or month-to-month tenancies, after reading the lease. The lease continues, the deposit transfers, and the tenant's only change is where the rent goes. We give a written offer within 24 hours of the visit and close through a Broward County title company in about a week once title is clear, or on a later date you choose. Below: what Florida law says about a sale with a lease, the 30-day notice rule and what happened to Broward's 60-day ordinance, the entry rules for our one visit, and the numbers against a vacant listing.
The lease rides with the deed, and the deposit follows it under Statute 83.49
In Florida a written lease survives an ordinary sale unless the lease itself says otherwise, so read it for a sale or early-termination clause. The buyer takes the property subject to the lease and steps into your position for the rest of the term. The tenant does not have to sign anything new, move, or be offered anything because the owner changed. Under Florida Statute 83.49(7) the security deposit and any advance rent, with any interest earned and an accounting per tenant, transfer to the new owner at closing against a written receipt; from then on the new owner holds the money under the same rules you did, while you stay responsible for anything that went wrong with the deposit before the sale. Rent for the closing month is split on the settlement statement, so you keep the days you owned the house. For you this means one closing replaces the whole cycle of notice, vacancy and turnover. For the tenant it means a letter saying who to pay next month.
Month-to-month in Broward County: 30 days under the statute, and what happened to the county's 60
Florida Statute 83.57 sets the state floor for ending a month-to-month tenancy at 30 days' written notice before the end of a monthly period, up from 15 days since 2023. Broward County went further in 2022 with its Fair Notice to Tenants ordinance (60 days' notice to end a month-to-month tenancy or to raise rent more than 5 percent) and its Tenant Bill of Rights ordinance. Both are no longer in effect. The same 2023 law that raised the state notice to 30 days also preempted local landlord-tenant regulation (Statute 83.425), and Broward County says its ordinances stopped applying on July 1, 2023. So the rule in Pompano Beach today is the state's 30 days. If you sell occupied, that clock never has to start. The tenancy simply continues under the new owner, and the statutory duties become ours.
One visit, not a lockbox: what Statute 83.53 allows and what we ask for
Florida Statute 83.53 is narrower than many landlords think. It lets you enter for repairs with reasonable notice, at least 24 hours, between 7:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Showings to buyers are different: the statute says a tenant may not unreasonably refuse to let the landlord show the home to a prospective buyer, but it sets no fixed notice period for showings and forbids using access to harass the tenant. A listing with a lockbox leans hard on that consent for weeks. We ask for one visit at a time the tenant agrees to, and many landlords simply tell the tenant that the buyer wants them to stay, which tends to make the visit easy. If you would rather we not disturb the tenant before closing, an exterior visit plus what you know about the interior is often enough for a written offer. We assume ordinary wear where we cannot look.
Vacant-and-list versus occupied-and-sold, in Pompano Beach numbers
Run both paths with real figures. Vacating means 30 days' notice before the end of a monthly period if the tenant is month-to-month, then no rent while you paint, replace flooring and fix whatever an inspector would flag on a house from Pompano Beach's 1974 median build year. Then two to three months on market against about seven months of supply, then a financed buyer's closing, then a commission near 6 percent, about $23,000 on a sale near the $385,000 median. A listing can also be run with the tenant in place, but it leans on the tenant's cooperation for every showing. Through all of it you carry the mortgage, the Citizens premium and taxes on a rental that gets no homestead exemption. Selling occupied means no vacancy, no turnover and no commission, with rent prorated to the closing date and any deposit or prepaid rent credited to the buyer. Our offer is below what a renovated, empty house would list for. Against the vacant path's real net, the gap is smaller than it first looks.
Rent level, lease length, and Palm Aire's condo rules
We price the tenancy along with the building. A tenant paying under market with two years left on the lease lowers the number; a reliable tenant at market rent on a month-to-month term is close to neutral. A long-term tenant who has looked after the house is a plus. Tell us the rent, the term and the payment history, and the written offer will reflect it. We do not require the house to be vacant at closing and we do not ask you to raise rent or serve notice first. Condos add a step. Palm Aire is overwhelmingly condo, and its associations may screen tenants and new owners. The lease generally continues, the association's approval of us is built into the closing date, and the estoppel certificate, the association's statement of what the unit owes, is settled at closing.
How an occupied sale closes in Broward County
Send the address, the rent, the lease dates and the deposit you hold. We arrange one visit with the tenant's consent, or an exterior look if you prefer, and deliver a written offer within 24 hours of the visit. When you accept, the Broward County title company opens the file, prorates rent, documents the deposit transfer, orders your mortgage payoff and closes in about a week once title is clear, or on a later date you choose. The tenant receives written word of the new owner and where to send rent. We pay the customary closing costs, and there is no commission. If your tenant is excellent and the house is updated, holding it or listing at lease end may serve you better, and Pompano Beach Cash Buyers will tell you so.
Selling to us vs. a traditional listing in Pompano Beach, FL
| Comparison | Traditional agent | For sale by owner | Pompano Beach Cash Buyers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash offer | Rarely | Rarely | Yes |
| Sell as-is | Repairs expected | Repairs expected | Yes |
| Time to a contract | roughly two to three months (Houzeo Sep 2026: 91 days median; Momentum: 66 days median for closed sales; Zillow Feb 2026: about 85 days to pending) in Pompano Beach now | Often longer | 24 hours after the visit |
| Agent commission | About 6% | Buyer's agent usually paid | None |
| Closing costs | Paid by seller | Paid by seller | Customary costs paid by us |
| Showings | Yes | Yes | One visit |
| Financing fall-through | Possible | Possible | None, we fund it |
| Price cut after inspection | Common | Common | No inspection period |
| Closing date | Lender's schedule | Buyer's schedule | Yours |
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