Selling a rental in Pompano Beach, FL with the tenant in place: how Florida leases and deposits transfer, Florida's 30-day notice rule, non-homestead taxes and insurance, and how a cash sale runs. Written offer within 24 hours of the visit.
A rental house in Pompano Beach pencils differently in 2026 than it did when you bought it. Citizens, the state-backed insurer, still carried about 42,500 personal residential policies in Broward County at the end of August 2026. Its approved 2026 average premium in Broward is $2,916. A rental gets no homestead exemption, so its assessed value can rise up to 10 percent a year. The city set its millage 5.15 percent above the rolled-back rate for the current budget year. Florida's statute, not the county, now sets the notice rules, after the state preempted Broward's 2022 tenant ordinances in 2023. And the house itself, if it is typical of the city's stock, dates from around 1974 and carries the roof, plumbing and panel that implies. Add a landlord who moved away or simply wants to stop managing, and the real question is how to sell without a vacant-and-renovate gap.
Pompano Beach Cash Buyers buys rental houses from their owners across Pompano Beach and North Broward, occupied or vacant, in any condition. One visit, a written offer within 24 hours of the visit, and a closing about a week after title is clear. This page is for the landlord who wants to sell. It explains what happens to the lease and the deposit, the notice rules, how a non-paying tenant is handled, and what the numbers look like against a listing.
Your lease survives the closing, and so does the deposit
Under Florida law a written lease survives a sale. The buyer takes the property subject to it, and the security deposit transfers to the new owner (Fla. Stat. 83.49). That means you do not have to wait for the lease to expire, ask the tenant to leave, or pay anyone to move. A month-to-month tenant stays month-to-month. Rent for the closing month is prorated on the settlement statement, so you keep the days you owned. The tenant is told in writing who now holds the deposit and where to send rent. When Pompano Beach Cash Buyers buys your rental, the tenant's first change is the name on the rent check, not their home.
Florida's 30-day rule, and why you may not need it
Florida's statute lets a landlord end a month-to-month tenancy with 30 days' written notice, a figure raised from 15 days in 2023. Broward County tried to go further with a 2022 Fair Notice ordinance requiring 60 days, but the same 2023 law preempted local landlord-tenant rules (Fla. Stat. 83.425), and the county says the ordinance is no longer in effect. The rule inside Pompano Beach is therefore the state's 30 days before the end of a monthly period. The practical point for a seller: you do not need to end the tenancy to sell to us, so the 30-day clock never has to start. If you already served notice, tell us the date and we build the closing around it.
The visit: what the statute allows and what we actually do
Fla. Stat. 83.53 lets a landlord enter for repairs with reasonable notice of at least 24 hours, between 7:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. A showing to a buyer is different. It happens with the tenant's consent or as the lease allows; the 24-hour rule is not a blanket right to show. So we do not ask you to push your tenant. You tell the tenant a buyer will visit, we propose a window, and the tenant agrees to it. One visit is enough. We look at the roof, the panel, the plumbing and the unit's condition, and the written offer follows within 24 hours of that visit. No second inspection, no appraiser, no lender's inspector returning for photos.
A tenant who stopped paying: the Broward County Court path versus selling now
Nonpayment in Florida starts with a 3-day written notice to pay or vacate under Fla. Stat. 83.56(3). The three days exclude Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. Other lease breaches get a 7-day notice to cure under 83.56(2)(b). If the tenant does neither, the eviction is filed in Broward County Court, at the Central Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale or the North Regional Courthouse on West Hillsboro Boulevard in Deerfield Beach. You can finish that process and then sell, or sell with the case where it stands. We buy rentals with a tenant behind on rent or an eviction pending and take over the landlord's position at closing. The unpaid rent through closing remains yours to pursue or write off.
The numbers a Pompano Beach landlord should run before choosing a path
A listing agent will usually want the unit empty and refreshed. That means lost rent, a renovation budget, and then the city's marketing time, which recent data puts at roughly two to three months, with about seven months of supply on the market. At the city's median sale price of around $385,000, a 6 percent commission is close to $23,000. We buy occupied, pay the customary closing costs and charge no commission. Your net is the price minus your mortgage payoff and any liens. Our offer is below a renovated retail price; the fair comparison is your net after vacancy, repairs, commission and months of carrying an insured, taxed, empty house. Run both columns.
How the sale runs, from your first message to the wire
Send the address, the rent, the lease end date and whether the tenant is current. We arrange one visit with the tenant's agreement and deliver a written offer within 24 hours of the visit. When you accept, a Broward County title company opens the file, orders your payoff and runs the search. Closing follows about a week after title is clear, or on a later date you pick. The title company prorates rent, moves the deposit, pays the mortgage and wires your net. If you own more than one Pompano Beach rental, Pompano Beach Cash Buyers can buy them on one timeline. If your house is updated and rented at market, holding it or listing it may serve you better, and we 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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