Services
The Lien Team Inc is committed to providing full-service, complete package and inexpensive lien filing services in Florida. We offer unparalleled service and performance.
The Lien Team is licensed and bonded throughout the State of FLORIDA to handle auto, vessel and motorcycle lien processing. If you have repaired, stored, or towed a vehicle or vessel and you have not been paid for the services, you are entitled to place a lien on that vehicle or vessel.
Although we offer lien services to everyone, our services are tailored to Marinas & Garages needs and proudly. We offer rapid response time, discount pricing for documented vessel.
Our Commitment
At The Lien Team Inc, we treat our clients with courtesy and integrity. Whether you have one Claim of Lien or many, we guarantee aggressively priced, full-service, accurate and honest service that achieves results. Our 20 years of experience and notable expertise ensure that your lien management is in good hands.
Our consistent track record of uncompromising ethics instills confidence and trust. We use cutting edge technologies and multiple information services to ensure we provide the most current information and allow us to respond quickly to satisfy your lien needs.
With a long Lien, The Team Service will submit a request for authorization to conduct a lien sale, along with the fee to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). We must wait for the authorization from the DMV before proceeding with the lien sale process. This can take approximately 30-90 days.
Then, when we receive the authorization, we prepare a lien sale package for the customer. At least five days but not more than 20 days before the sale date, the customer must give notice of the sale by advertising the sale for one day in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the vehicle is located. If there is no newspaper published in the county, notice shall be given by posting the notice of pending lien sale in three of the most public places in the town where the vehicle is located and at the place where the vehicle is to be sold for 10 consecutive days prior to and including the day of the sale. We can help you with that.
The vehicle must be available for inspection at a location easily accessible to the public for at least one hour before the sale and must be at the place of sale at the time and date specified on the Notice of Sale. If the auction price exceeds the amount of the lien, the excess amount must be sent to the Lien Sale Unit within 15 days after the sale date. After the sale, a redemption period of 10 days (not counting the date of sale) is required before the purchaser can take possession of the vehicle and apply for transfer of ownership. After the redemption period, you must give the buyer the lien sale package and a copy of the authorization letter from DMV. The license plates must be removed and destroyed at the time of the sale and you must submit to DMV within five days of the sale a Notice of Transfer and Release of Liability.
Repairs and Storage
According to the statute, we must give the registered owner, lien holder and your customer 45 days notice to pay the outstanding repair bill, legal amount of storage and our full fees. If after 45 days payment is not received, the statute requires us to hold a public auction to satisfy your outstanding charges. If no one satisfies your lien, then we can apply for title under your business name. The title process takes approximately 3 weeks. The process in total takes approximately 2 ½ months to complete.
Towing and Storage
According to the statute, we must give 30 days notice to the registered owner, lien holder and your customer to pay the outstanding towing, legal amount of storage and our full fees. If after the 30 days payment is not received, the statute requires us to hold a public auction to satisfy your outstanding charges. If no one satisfies your lien, then we can apply for title under your business name. The title process takes approximately 1 week. The process in total takes approximately 45 days to
Legal Amount of Storage
On a repair bill, we must go 15 business days back from the time the certified mail is sent to obtain an assessment date according to the statute. Any storage charges prior to that time must be waived. On a tow bill, we must go 7 business days back from the time certified mail is sent to obtain an assessment date according to the statute. Any storage charges prior to that time must be waived.
Aircrafts
According to the statute, we must give the registered owner, lien holder and your customer 45 days notice to pay the outstanding labor and/or storage and our full fees. If after 45 days payment is not received, the statute requires us to hold a public auction to satisfy your outstanding charges. If no one satisfies your lien, we can provide required paperwork for ownership and/or registration. The process in totla takes approximately 50 days to complete.
Boats
Vessels are a little bit different and require more work on our part. The procedures are determined by the whether the vessel is over or under $1500.
For vessels under $1500, The Team Lien Service charges a rate of $350 per lien. A short lien on a vessel must be accompanied by a written statement for fair market value from a licensed yacht/ship broker as evidence that the value of the vessel or vessel/trailer is $1,500 or less.
For vessels over $1500, The Team Lien Service charges a rate of $500per lien. A form and a filing fee must be submitted to the DMV.
Finally, part of our service to you is to handle the process from start to finish. This includes certified mailing, newspaper advertisements according to statute, submitting proper paperwork to your local courthouse and applying for clear title. But most of all, we handle all the phone calls with regard to matter in our office as well as any payment. Once you have given us the paperwork, you can refer all calls to our office. Then our office works directly with you. We protect you with regard to payments. They must pay in full (no partial payments once the lien is in process) and only accepting cash or cashier check from owners, customers and lien holders which are deposited into our escrow account. Then our office, within one day of receiving payment, sends you the money owed to you. It’s that
How do I know when my lien is completed?
You will receive a packet of lien sale documents from us prior to the vehicle’s sale date. This packet will have an invoice on top and several pages of DMV forms attached. The sale date will be printed on both the “Seller’s Warranty” and the “Certificate of Lien” forms.
Let our Professionals work for you!
Let us help you turn your losses into
$$ Money in the Bank ! $$
Use our expertise and our devoted team to recover losses incurred by abandoned and/or unclaimed personal property.
Terms and Conditions
Vehicles valued $4000 or above: $250.00. Trailers or Boats $350.00 and up! An additional $35.00 handling fee will be charged if information provided to “The Team” is not correct and lien needs to redone and refilled with DMV, or any other state agency.
If the lien is stopped for any reason the above fee will apply. It is the responsibility of the person conducting the lien sale to comply with any legal proceeding from any person who may oppose the sale.
The Team is licensed by the State of Florida as a Registration Service.
The Team is not a branch of the Department of Motor Vehicle or any other state-licensing agency. For IMMEDIATE service contact one of our trained specialists.
