A lis pendens is a common tool used in Florida to put third parties on notice of a pending lawsuit against real estate. Preparing to file a mechanics lien in Hillsborough County?Here's what you need to know to record a lien with the Hillsborough County Clerk. A perennial real property title problem occurs because of the failure to properly dispose of notices of lis pendens in the order of dismissal. First, a lis pendens is just something filed on the land letting people know that the property is involved in litigation. All of said property being in the County of Hillsborough, State of Florida. Documents filed in lawsuits reside in the Clerk of Court's records. Title to real property lives in the public or official records of a county in Florida.