{"id":432610,"date":"2026-10-20T02:23:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432610\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T02:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:23:04","slug":"st-petersburg-cash-home-buyer-brings-back-the-homesellercashoffer-name-and-publishes-free-tax-deed-and-probate-guides-for-pinellas-hillsborough-and-pasco-homeowners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432610\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg cash home buyer brings back the HomeSellerCashOffer name and publishes free tax-deed and probate guides for Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco homeowners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free guides and tools cover the Florida tax deed process, a new 2026 probate change, code-enforcement liens and how to vet any cash buyer<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 October 16, 2026 \u2014 Tampete Homes LLC, a St. Petersburg cash home buyer, now operates publicly as HomeSellerCashOffer, the company\u2019s registered Florida fictitious name. The company serves homeowners in Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco counties from its office at 433 Central Ave in downtown St. Petersburg. Its website, homesellercashoffer.com, now hosts free guides for owners facing property-tax, probate and code-enforcement problems.<\/p>\n<p>The guides are written by owner AL Cakici. They link the Florida Statutes and county Clerk and Tax Collector pages they rely on, so readers can check every step themselves. They include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A tax deed timeline tool that counts the Florida dates for any tax year, from delinquency on April 1 to a possible auction.<br \/>\u2022 County guides for owners behind on property taxes in Pinellas and Hillsborough, including how redemption works under Florida Statutes \u00a7197.472.<br \/>\u2022 An inherited-house guide that reflects Florida\u2019s July 1, 2026 change raising the summary-administration limit from $75,000 to $150,000 (Laws of Florida ch. 2026-57).<br \/>\u2022 A code-lien guide explaining how unpaid code-enforcement fines become liens under Florida Statutes Chapter 162, and how a sale settles them.<br \/>\u2022 A nine-point checklist for vetting any cash home buyer, including HomeSellerCashOffer itself, with public-record searches anyone can run in about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the families who call me had more options six months before they called,\u201d said AL Cakici, owner of HomeSellerCashOffer. \u201cThese guides are the answers I give on the phone every day, written down with the sources attached. If listing with an agent or redeeming the taxes is the better move, they say so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HomeSellerCashOffer buys houses directly, for its own account, and closes through a licensed Florida title company. It is not a real estate agent or broker and does not give legal advice. Sellers can check the company\u2019s public records \u2014 Florida LLC document L25000252906 and fictitious name G26000015982 \u2014 on Sunbiz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free guides and tools cover the Florida tax deed process, a new 2026 probate change, code-enforcement liens and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-432610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}