Tampa Metro Property Leads (Hillsborough County)

The exact signal we pull here

Hillsborough County publishes its live code-enforcement caseload as an ArcGIS feature service: CodeEnforcementCasesMapService/FeatureServer/0, the "Active CE Cases" layer, hosted on services.arcgis.com.

The signal is an active county code-enforcement case. The statuses in the layer run from WARNING through In Review, Pre Hearing and Referred to Hearing to Not Complied Fines Running and Fine Run — that last pair meaning daily fines are accruing against the property right now.

The feed carries no city name, so we compose the address from USER_Property_Address plus USER_ZIP_CODE — for example 11832 Clare Hill Ave 33579. We require a valid Florida ZIP, which is what narrows the file to rows a skip-trace provider can actually match.

3,526

open cases carrying an address (of 10,991 total rows in the layer)

2,465

of those with a valid FL ZIP — the set we actually pull from

8,448

layer rows carrying a parcel number, which is what makes the free owner join possible

Documented test run: --city Tampa --limit 60 → 60 raw rows in, 56 unique properties out.

Why the Tampa metro is worth working: the money is printed on the record

Hillsborough is the one market of our six where the county publishes a dollar figure attached to the distress. The same feature service that carries the caseload also exposes the county's recorded code-enforcement liens, and a lien has a balance on it.

1,440

properties carrying a recorded code-enforcement lien, plus 21 active condemnations

$165,038,523

total recorded across those liens (exact: $165,038,522.92)

$38,500

median lien — the largest single one is $3,428,500

The rows that matter most are the intersections. 576 Hillsborough properties carry an open code case and a recorded lien at the same time. Widen it to any two simultaneous signals and roughly 4,832 addresses qualify. Those are counted intersections, run on 6 August 2026 — not estimates, and not a score we made up.

The owner side is unusually clean here too: the FOLIO-to-parcel join was verified end-to-end on 5 of 5 sampled cases, which is what gives us a free county-published owner name and mailing address before any paid skip-trace runs. 5,702 of our 38,378 deed-verified buyers are Hillsborough, built from the recorder's own transfer file.

Real rows from the 6 August 2026 pull

Unedited output. The Status column is the interesting one here — "Fine Run" means the meter is running.

deedstake_tampa_20260806.csv

Signal	Date filed	Address	Case stage	Status	Owner	Phone
VIOLATION	not published	3923 Venetian Way 33634	Fine Run	Fine Run	████████ ███████	(███) ███-████
VIOLATION	not published	19702 Prince Benjamin Dr 33549	Fine Run	Fine Run	████████ ███████	(███) ███-████
VIOLATION	not published	19606 Amazon Basin Bnd 33559	Fine Run	Fine Run	████████ ███████	(███) ███-████
VIOLATION	not published	19802 Sea Rider Way 33559	Pre Hearing	Pre Hearing	████████ ███████	(███) ███-████
VIOLATION	not published	1214 Magdalene Hill Dr 33613	In Review	In Review	████████ ███████	(███) ███-████
VIOLATION	not published	4814 Longwater Way 33615	In Review	In Review	████████ ███████	(███) ███-████

Source: Hillsborough County ArcGIS CodeEnforcementCasesMapService/FeatureServer/0 ("Active CE Cases"), filtered to open cases with a valid FL ZIP, pulled 6 August 2026.
The Date column says "not published" because it is not published. See the limits section.
Owner and phone are blanked on purpose. Those two columns are the skip-trace step we add before delivery; we redact them in a public sample rather than publish a named person's phone number on the open web. Your delivered file has them filled in.

What an investor actually does with this file

Hillsborough is the one market of the six where the status column is worth more than a date column would be. Fines that are already running are a quantified, compounding cost sitting on a specific parcel.

Start with "Not Complied Fines Running" and "Fine Run". These owners are being charged daily and have already failed to comply once. Nothing else in the file competes with that as a motivation signal.
Then take "Referred to Hearing" and "Pre Hearing". A hearing date is a deadline. Deadlines make people answer the phone.
Treat "Warning" and "In Review" as the follow-up tier. They are early-stage and often resolve on their own.
Ask us for the lien overlay. The 576 properties carrying both an open case and a recorded lien are the shortest list in this metro and the highest-intent one. Median balance $38,500 — that is a number you can open a conversation with.
Filter to the ZIPs you actually work. Hillsborough is geographically enormous. The addresses land in Lutz, Ruskin, Riverview, Brandon and the Tampa-mailing ZIPs 33613, 33615 and 33634. That is genuine Tampa-metro inventory across a lot of different municipalities — pick the sub-markets you know.
Delete the HOA common-area parcels. A minority of rows are association-owned common land rather than saleable homes. They are obvious once you look: our own spot-check found 19703 Augusta Preserve Dr owned by the Livingston Grove HOA with a just value of $100 on the county appraiser's roll.
Sort by the absentee flag before dialling. Derived at skip-trace time from mailing address versus property address.

And because Hillsborough's county-published owner and mailing address are free and reliable here, this is also the best of our six markets for a mail-first campaign rather than a dial-first one.

The honest limits in the Tampa metro

We do not sell the Tampa metro on freshness, and you should not buy it for that. The code-enforcement layer's own dataLastEditDate was 22 June 2026 at probe time, and the newest case IDs are HC-CE-25-xxxxxx — intake in this snapshot runs through 2025 with no 2026 vintage in it. It is an accurate picture of an active caseload and a genuinely large backlog; it is not a same-day feed the way Chicago, Dallas and DeKalb are. If freshness is the thing you are buying, buy one of those three instead. What Tampa gives you is backlog, liens, mail and depth.

This is Hillsborough County, not the City of Tampa. The City of Tampa publishes no code-enforcement dataset — we checked its GeoHub catalogue on 6 August 2026 and none of its 200 datasets is code enforcement. City cases sit behind Accela Citizen Access with no public API. On top of that, tampagov.net and tampa.gov geo-block non-US traffic, so a City-of-Tampa feed would not even be fetchable from where we run the pipeline. We say "Tampa metro / Hillsborough County" everywhere, and we will never say "Tampa" on its own.

Probate is not a product here yet. Hillsborough's free daily clerk index publishes with a 3-day lag and yields 1,692 distinct probate properties across ten weeks of files — deduplicated by legal description. We have measured that. We have not wired it into deliveries, it is not included in any plan today, and we will not take your money on the promise of it. When it ships it is free to existing subscribers, and we will say so on this page on the day it works.

No per-case open date. The layer's USER_Due_Date is a compliance deadline, not a filing date, and is mostly null. Every Hillsborough row leaves our pipeline with a blank date and a freshness score of zero, by design. We never quote a filing date for this market.

Some parcels are HOA common areas. See the workflow section above — they are easy to spot and easy to delete, but they are in the raw file.

The county does not publish the phone number. Owner name and mailing address are free and county-published here; the phone comes from a licensed skip-trace provider, and that matching is probabilistic. Some rows come back without a phone.

Public records are not consent to call. You own TCPA and Do Not Call compliance before you dial — see our Terms of Service, §2.3.

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