Serving papers in Miami
We serve Brickell, Downtown, Little Havana, Wynwood, Edgewater, the Design District, Coconut Grove, Overtown and Allapattah.
High-rise service is its own skill. Brickell and Edgewater towers route visitors through a concierge or security desk, and a server who does not know how to work with building management wastes attempts. Ours document the building policy, serve at the desk when the law allows and return at the hours residents actually pass through the lobby.
Business service is common downtown: registered agents, law offices and corporate suites on Flagler Street and Brickell Avenue. We confirm the registered agent on file before we drive, so the serve is valid the first time.
The Miami-Dade County civil courthouse and the family courthouse are both downtown, so court filing and courier runs for Miami matters are quick, and we can file the same day we serve when you need it.
Every Miami job comes with up to 4 attempts at different times of day within your level's time (with a Saturday attempt when that time includes a Saturday), GPS coordinates and a photo on each attempt, a client portal where you watch the attempts as they are logged, and a notarized affidavit of service the moment the job is done. If the person cannot be found, you get an affidavit of due diligence that documents every attempt for the court.
In Miami, the front door is a concierge desk
Most residential service inside the city happens vertically. Brickell, Downtown and Edgewater are towers, and the person on the papers is behind a lobby, a desk, an elevator that needs a fob and a building policy written by a management company.
Florida Statutes section 48.031(7) speaks to this directly. It requires a gated residential community, including a condominium association or a cooperative, to grant unannounced entry into the community, including its common areas and common elements, to a person attempting to serve process on someone who resides within or is known to be within it. A high-rise condominium association is not outside that sentence.
In practice the conversation happens at the desk, with court-issued identification, and it is logged either way. Whether a building grants access or refuses it, the time, the GPS point, a photo and the name of who was spoken to go on the attempt record that reaches the court.
Unit 3402 is floor 34, and the papers may still be wrong
Tower addresses carry their own failure modes. A four-digit unit is usually the floor plus the line, so 3402 is line 02 on the thirty-fourth floor, and a transposition in the paperwork moves the target several floors without looking wrong.
Miami also has an unusually mobile rental market. Between corporate leases, investor-owned units and short-term rentals, the name on the papers and the person currently in the unit are not reliably the same, and a building that changes tenants every few weeks will not always know who is in what.
That is why an attempt that finds the wrong occupant is reported as exactly that rather than counted as a serve, and why a locate is often the faster route than a fifth attempt at an address that has already turned over.
Parking is part of the job
There is nowhere to leave a car in Brickell. Towers are valet-only at the entrance, the loading zones are timed, the garages are residents-only, and a fifteen-minute wait at a desk can cost more than the attempt is worth if the car has to circle.
Timing does most of the work. Early mornings before the commute fills Brickell Avenue and the evening window after people are home are worth more than the middle of the day, and downtown attempts are grouped so one parking spot covers more than one building where the addresses allow it.
The courthouses are in this ZIP code
One thing works in your favor here: the courts are downtown, in the same few blocks as many of the addresses being served.
The Osvaldo N. Soto Miami-Dade Justice Center at 20 NW 1st Avenue holds circuit and county civil. Family matters sit at the Lawson E. Thomas Courthouse Center, 175 NW 1st Avenue. The Clerk also runs district courts around the county, including Coral Gables, Hialeah, Miami Beach, North Dade, South Dade and the Joseph Caleb Center, and county civil filings are spread across them by case type and address. The Clerk's Court Location Finder resolves which one applies.
For a downtown client that means the filing run is measured in minutes, and a set of papers can be filed and a serve attempted in the same trip.
Landlords, rush work and ordering in Miami
Eviction notices, same-day service and the four turnaround levels, for the City of Miami and the rest of the county.
Landlords and property managers send us a steady share of Miami work: three-day and seven-day notices for apartments in Little Havana and Allapattah, condo units in Brickell and Edgewater, and the eviction summons once a case is filed. Every attempt is logged with the time, a GPS point and a photo, and a posting is photographed in place. Our eviction process server service for Miami landlords explains what we serve and what you receive.
Every order is placed at one of four levels. Standard ($75) makes the first attempt within 72 hours and is completed within 10 service days. Rush ($95) makes the first attempt within 24 hours and is completed within 5 service days. Same Day ($120) makes the first attempt the same day and is completed within 4 service days. Same Day + ($200) makes 2 attempts the same day, at different times and is completed within 2 service days. Service days are Monday to Saturday.
Ordering takes a few minutes: upload the papers, enter the address and the person to be served, pick the level and pay online. You can watch each attempt in the client portal, and the notarized affidavit of service appears there when it is signed. Read what the affidavit of service contains.
Miami cases often reach into the neighbouring cities, and we serve all of them: Coral Gables, Miami Beach, Hialeah, Doral and Kendall, where we are based.
Beyond eviction notices, we serve subpoenas for witnesses and records, divorce and family law papers and small claims summons in Miami, and we handle gated communities and condo towers every week.
Who serves your papers
Agera is run by Abraham Torres, a certified process server in Miami-Dade County and a member of the National Association of Professional Process Servers (NAPPS). The business is based in Kendall, and the person who takes your order is the person accountable for the serve and the affidavit.
Last updated October 27, 2026.