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Hillsborough County, Florida

Distressed property leads in the Tampa metro — Hillsborough County, not the City of Tampa

Read that headline again, because it is the single most important thing on this page. Our Tampa-metro data is Hillsborough County code enforcement. The City of Tampa publishes nothing usable, and we would rather lose the sale than let you find that out after you have paid.

Source and counts on this page were verified against the live endpoint on 6 August 2026. Numbers move; the method doesn't.

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 in the layer)
2,465
of those with a valid FL ZIP — the set we actually pull from
1,440
active code-enforcement liens exposed by the same service, alongside 21 active condemnations

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

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.

dealsignal_tampa_20260806.csv
SignalDate filedAddressCase stageStatusOwnerPhone
VIOLATIONnot published3923 Venetian Way 33634Fine RunFine Run████████ ███████(███) ███-████
VIOLATIONnot published19702 Prince Benjamin Dr 33549Fine RunFine Run████████ ███████(███) ███-████
VIOLATIONnot published19606 Amazon Basin Bnd 33559Fine RunFine Run████████ ███████(███) ███-████
VIOLATIONnot published19802 Sea Rider Way 33559Pre HearingPre Hearing████████ ███████(███) ███-████
VIOLATIONnot published1214 Magdalene Hill Dr 33613In ReviewIn Review████████ ███████(███) ███-████
VIOLATIONnot published4814 Longwater Way 33615In ReviewIn Review████████ ███████(███) ███-████
Source: Hillsborough County ArcGIS CodeEnforcementCasesMapService/FeatureServer/0 (“Active CE Cases”), filtered to open cases with a valid FL ZIP.
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 the date column would be. Fines that are already running are a quantified, compounding cost sitting on a specific parcel.

  1. 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.
  2. Then take "Referred to Hearing" and "Pre Hearing". A hearing date is a deadline. Deadlines make people answer the phone.
  3. Treat "Warning" and "In Review" as the follow-up tier. They are early-stage and often resolve on their own.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Sort by the absentee flag before dialling. Derived at skip-trace time from mailing address versus property address.

The honest limits in the Tampa metro

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.

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.

This is a snapshot feed, not a live one. The 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. It is an accurate picture of an active caseload; 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.

Some parcels are HOA common areas. See the workflow section above.

The county does not publish the owner. Name, phone and mailing address come from a licensed skip-trace provider; matching is probabilistic and 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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