How It Works
From your first message to funds in hand, here's exactly what to expect — including how and when we get paid.
Every case starts with an attorney, not a call center
When you reach out, your situation lands directly on a licensed attorney's desk — not a script-reading intake rep. We look at what you actually have (a notice, a case number, a name) before we ever ask you to sign anything.
What actually happens, step by step
Free case review
Submit your information through our case review form, by phone, or by email. Tell us what type of notice or situation you're dealing with — a foreclosure surplus notice, a tax deed sale, a letter about unclaimed property — or let us know you're not sure and we'll help figure that out. Having the notice itself, a case or parcel number, or the property address on hand speeds things up, but none of it is required to get started.
A licensed attorney personally reviews every submission, not an intake script. There's no cost and no obligation for this first look, and most people hear back within a business day or two.
We verify the claim
Before we ask for a signature, we do the homework. We pull the actual clerk of court record or the Florida Department of Financial Services' unclaimed property listing, confirm the funds genuinely exist, and identify exactly which process applies — foreclosure surplus, tax deed surplus, or state-held unclaimed property — since each carries its own deadlines, forms, and competing-claimant rules.
If it looks like a viable claim, we send you a written fee agreement that spells out our exact percentage in plain language, before any work begins and before you owe us anything.
We file and represent you
We prepare and file the required claim documents, handle service and notice to any other interested parties, and stand in as your legal representative with the clerk of court or the Florida Department of Financial Services — so you don't have to appear, file paperwork yourself, or field calls from the county. If another party disputes the claim, we respond and argue it on your behalf.
Timelines vary by claim type: clerk-held surplus claims often resolve in a few months, while state-held unclaimed property and disputed claims can take longer.
Funds are disbursed
Once the clerk of court or the state approves and releases the funds, the check or warrant is deposited into our trust account, and your share is disbursed to you shortly after — with our fee deducted exactly as set out in your signed agreement, and no surprise charges on top of it.
This is a true contingency arrangement: if we don't recover anything for you, you owe us nothing at all.
You only pay us if we recover something
Our fee is weighed out of the funds we actually recover for you — never before, and never if we come up empty. That's the whole arrangement: no retainer, no hourly billing, no invoice while your claim is still pending.
Contingency fees, explained by claim type
We never charge anything upfront. Our fee comes out of the funds we recover for you, and only if we recover them. Exactly how the fee is structured depends on which statute governs your claim:
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