Before any property reaches the clerk's online auction, a Tax Deed Application is filed with the county (Fla. Stat. §197.502) — putting it on a forced path to auction, months ahead. TaxDeedRadar™ watches those filings and tells members first.
Taxes go delinquent April 1; the Tax Collector auctions a tax certificate (a lien) around June 1. Mostly institutional buyers. The owner can still pay for years.
Two years unpaid and the certificate holder forces a sale by filing a TDA. From this moment the property is headed to auction. TDA-level tracking is rolling out to the feed next.
The moment a sale is scheduled at the clerk's online auction — typically weeks before auction day — it hits your feed with the owner's name, mailing address, absentee flag, opening bid and assessed value. Owner can redeem right up to the sale; we flag redemptions so dead deals don't waste your diligence.
A lead list dies the moment everyone has it. So we don't sell everyone the list — Walton County is capped at 50 members, permanently. Seats are assigned in waitlist order the day the county goes live.
New tax deed sales are being scheduled in Walton County right now — every one is an owner someone else will reach first if you're not on the feed.
Completely. Tax deed applications and sale records are Florida public records (ch. 119), published by county offices for public use. We read what's public — faster, and every day. Fla. Stat. §197.502 · §197.542 · ch. 119
The record is scattered across clerk searches, PDFs, and auction calendars with no owner mailing addresses joined and no alerting. You could rebuild it. So could anyone — right around the time the sale list goes public and the head start is gone.
Because we sell an edge, not a spreadsheet. Capped seats keep response rates high for the people inside — which is exactly why the cap never moves.