Florida Real Estate Investor Attorney
Your Deal. Your Money. Your Rights. We Defend All Three.
Lawyer for Florida fix-and-flippers, buy-and-hold landlords, and wholesalers — from the contract to the closing table to the courtroom.
Schedule a Strategy Session → Call 813.252.0239 for urgent matters — lis pendens, auctions, or a closing falling apart this week.
At Dunivan Law, PA, we routinely represent Florida real estate investors — the people actually moving deals, not watching from the sidelines. Fix-and-flippers closing in cash. Landlords running portfolios of single-families and small multis. Wholesalers assigning contracts faster than most lawyers can read them.
Investing in Florida real estate is not passive. It's a contact sport. Title problems surface at the worst possible moment. Sellers forget to disclose the very thing you needed disclosed. HOAs foreclose over assessments you didn't know existed. Contractors walk off the job. Zoning says no. And somewhere in that mess, a deal that looked clean on paper turns from a dream into a nightmare.
That's where I come in. I've spent over a decade in real estate and debt litigation — from the open house to the court room — and I use leverage to create positive outcomes for investors who need their deal to close, their title to clear, or their lawsuit to go away.
Who We Represent
Fix-and-Flip Investors
You're buying distressed, rehabbing fast, and trying to get out before the carrying costs eat your margin. We handle the legal friction that slows your exit: undisclosed defects found after closing, permit and zoning problems blocking your resale, contractor disputes that stall the rehab, quiet title actions on properties bought at auction, and deed and title defects that scare off your end buyer. If your flip turns into a lawsuit — yours or someone else's — we try the case.
Buy-and-Hold Landlords
You're playing a longer game: cash flow, appreciation, and keeping your portfolio clean. We defend the rest of the income statement. That includes HOA foreclosure defense when the association gets aggressive over assessments, consumer protection claims against lenders and servicers misapplying payments on rental loans, failure-to-disclose actions against sellers who sandbagged you on prior flooding or roof damage, quiet title cleanup on tax deed and heir-property acquisitions, and partition actions when co-owners no longer agree. We also help landlords think about LLC title, series structure, and asset isolation before a claim ever hits.
Ripped off in a Judicial Sale
You thought you got a great deal, only to find out that the property is subject to a mortgage (or three), ongoing litigation, and fast-approaching foreclosure sales. We've seen this, and work with you to either mitigate your damages or go after the bad actors.
What We Handle — and Why Investors Call Us
Title defects, quiet title, and partition. Tax deeds, sheriff's sales, foreclosure auctions, and heir properties are gold mines for investors — and minefields for title. We clean up the record so your exit closes without a last-minute objection from a buyer's title underwriter.
Failure to disclose. Florida's Johnson v. Davis duty is not a technicality. If the seller knew the roof was bad, the slab was cracked, or the prior claim history was a disaster, that's a recoverable case. We've handled these on both sides of the closing.
Foreclosure defense — including investor-owned properties. We've defended homeowners and real estate investors through foreclosure for over a decade. When it's a rental or flip going into foreclosure, the defenses are often stronger, not weaker, because the servicer made assumptions about the loan and the property that don't hold up at trial. We actively try foreclosure cases, and we've won.
HOA and Condo foreclosure. Associations have teeth. They also overreach constantly — lien amounts that include charges they can't legally collect, notice defects, and attorney's-fee claims courts haven't approved. We've taken these apart in both state court and federal court.
Surplus funds recovery. If a property of yours — or a property you've tracked in a foreclosure portfolio — sold at auction for more than the debt, that surplus belongs to someone. We recover it. Don't leave money behind. And don't sign with one of the shady "fund recovery" companies circling these files.
Zoning, land use, and variances. A zoning dispute or denied variance can stop a project cold, cost real money, and drag on for months if you don't know how to fight it. A variance application lives or dies on its narrative. Not every property problem is a variance problem — and knowing the difference is the first hour of the engagement.
Solar panel and contractor litigation. Inherited solar from a seller who lied? Contractor disappeared mid-rehab? We litigate these — we're one of the firms Florida buyers call when a solar loan attaches to a property that was never supposed to carry one.
Why Investors Choose Dunivan Law
We try cases. As the court system becomes busier and busier, many lawyers don't have the time to try a case or, for some, they simply don't want to. We do. That changes every settlement conversation in your file.
We came up in the trenches. Our career started providing homeowners with foreclosure defense options during the worst years of the last cycle. That history is why we read loan files, servicing notes, and closing packages the way opposing counsel wishes we didn't.
We work with your team. Your title agent, your CPA, your 1031 intermediary, your lender, your GC — we plug in. We're not the bottleneck.
We've been featured in Bloomberg, the Tampa Bay Times, ABC Action News, Credit Karma, and realtor.com. We didn't get there by filing boilerplate.
What Working With Us Looks Like
1. Strategy Session. You book a 30-minute call on Calendly. Tell me what's happening — the deal, the letter you got, the lawsuit that just landed. I'll tell you what I'd actually do if it were mine.
2. Scope and fee. If we're a fit, we scope the work. Flat fee where it makes sense (debt defense, title projects). Hourly where it doesn't. No retainer theater.
3. Leverage. I use leverage to create positive outcomes in real estate and debt litigation. That means identifying what the other side needs from this case — time, a clean judgment, a fee award — and making them work for it.
4. Result. Case dismissed, deal closed, lien cleared, judgment vacated, surplus funds recovered, settlement on your terms. Whatever "result" means in your file.
Unsure if we handle your issue?
We probably do. And if we don't, I know the right lawyer to send you to.
Schedule a Strategy Session → Call 813.252.0239
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