About us
We help people who have lost a property to foreclosure or a tax sale recover the money the sale left behind. That is the whole business. We do not sell leads, we do not buy claims, and we do not take a dollar from you before the money is in your hands.
Why we exist
When a property is sold at auction, the county collects what it is owed and the paperwork moves on. If the sale raised more than the debt, that difference sits in an account under a case number. It is public record, but almost nobody thinks to go looking for it, and counties are not in the business of tracking people down.
Meanwhile the person who lost the property has usually moved, changed their number, and is trying not to think about any of it. Deadlines pass quietly. In many states the money eventually reverts to the county or the state.
It is not only homeowners. Plenty of property sits in a company name: a rental bought through an LLC, a small commercial unit, land held by a partnership. When one of those is sold the surplus belongs to the entity, and because there is no individual watching the mail, those claims are the ones most often left unclaimed.
That gap is why this firm exists. The work itself is not complicated. It is records, forms, filings and follow-up. What it takes is somebody willing to do it properly and to keep going when a county office stops answering.
How we work
Our fee is a percentage of what we actually recover, written down and agreed before any work starts. If we recover nothing, you owe nothing. There is no hourly rate, no filing charge, no retainer, and no invoice if the claim fails.
We are not a law firm and we do not pretend to be. Where a claim has to be filed through a court, it is prepared and filed by an attorney licensed in that state. Their costs come out of the recovery, not out of your pocket.
County timelines run for months and silence is what makes people anxious. We tell you what has been filed, what we are waiting on, and roughly how long it should take. If it stalls, you hear it from us before you have to ask.
If the records show no surplus, or the money belongs to a lienholder or another heir rather than to you, we say so on the first call. We would rather lose the work than take up months of your time on a claim that was never going to pay.
Just as important
This field has a reputation, and it is partly earned. These are the practices that give surplus recovery a bad name, and none of them happen here.
Nobody should pay a fee to find out whether they are owed their own money.
An assignment sells us your claim outright, often for a fraction of its value. We work on your behalf and the claim stays yours throughout.
Take the agreement away, read it, show it to somebody else. A firm that needs your signature today is telling you something.
You will know our fee before you agree to anything, in writing, as a number. Several states cap what a recovery firm can charge and we work within those caps.
Your details are used to work your claim and nothing else. Mobile numbers and SMS consent are never shared with anyone for marketing.
The meaning behind our name
Shlama means peace. Not the absence of trouble, but the sense that something has finally been put right.
Losing a home is one of the hardest things a person goes through, and getting money back will not undo any of it. But it can settle something. For a lot of the people we work with, it is the difference between starting over with nothing and starting over with a deposit, a van, or a few months of breathing room.
One phone call or one short form. We check the county records and give you a straight answer at no cost.
