Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 04-28-09 regular — reading text

where the home is past due their date to hook up to the city lines, the bank who owns the property would have to satisfy the lien by paying the impact fees and hooking up to the utility lines before clear title can be conveyed. Most lenders will require a clear title before lending money. For cash buyer's who except this clouded title or when purchasing foreclosures at the county courthouse, the city will release the utility lien for $15o and forgive the existing fines, as long as the new owner pays the impact fees, hooks up to the service and comes into compliance. All other code enforcement liens, other than for utilities, which were put on foreclosed homes, will be released for 150 for the new owner. Cape Coral Liens on non foreclosures For non foreclosed properties, the city will agree to take 25% of the fines due from the code violation if the situation is cleaned up by the current owner. This does not apply to utility hook -ups. The Amnesty Application can be downloaded here. Brought to you by the South West Florida Fort Myers Cape Coral Real Estate Blog Posted at 04: 56 PM in Local Area Information - Cape Coral I Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: http: / /www.typepad.cone /t/ trackback/ 2929154/ 36628712 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Code Enforcement Forgives Fines on Foreclosures: Comments You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. httn: l/swflorida.typepad .comlmy_weblogl2008l12lcode- enforcement -forgives -fines -on- for... 1/ 22/ 2009 Safeguard Properties - Florida Code Violations and Proposed Ordinances Page I of 3 Sshpvding your intami&..millo" wide NEM SECTIONS Florida Code Violations and Proposed Ordinances Tuesday, 26 October 2008 All Client Marti I....".- .. ... ... .... ... ....... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .... Pres's Releases Several Florida communities are increasing the Issuance of code violations and proposing new regulations pertaining to vacant and abandoned Saftuard InThe News properties. The following report in The NessPresycliscusses some of thesepiroposals including attempts to prioritize code violations liens above all others. lrtdustry_tlrik.s. -•- Wablights, Unpaid fees grow like weedsin Lee County.: SAFEGUAM IN THE NEWS Managing REO Safeguard Fines, liens stack up at abandoned.homes.. Weathethead 100 Centurion Award F3 Moro Fines and liens are rroo,ntirig ompropertio-diougho KtziiCourity a4'..officials icials. Krafnble to find a wary to collea.the money and take the burden 11 ....... ............. . off the taxpayer. I) Snews.00rri Safeguard Weatherhead 100 Centurion Award Mork Abandoned homes bIdden..60" tail grass,. reeking. of stagrian.twater from unpunped pools with collapsed o patios all abyproduct or a sinkinc I—_ .......... ........ economy — are mostly 6:blame- ITN News at Ten - Cleveland, ON El More In other cases, rifts have accrued daily, for.everythiN from .having expired permits to junk cars in the yard Wih. indviduailbihs: piling up to more I—, ........ ................................. than $250,000. ACA SECTIONS Cities and the county' am:rpnWdring, e:v6rything fi* m. laws atlowmng.code -liens to be giverbigher pnQdty in foreclosures ksuresm and thus having a Hot Topics better chance of.being :pail — to settling cases for a fir cirthe total. amounts. ITE M A I—— .......... ........................... And the amounts o( uhpak1, cpde:enforcen-o6nt finesand maintenance costs are enormous: Property presenration I . ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . 9.1 million In Cape Coral... Code Compliance HUD I ........................... ....................... ...... 29 million in Fort Myers. VA 5. 3 million in unincorporated Lee County. rraddid Mac Fannie Mae 4.7 Million in Bonita Springs. Harric-Aim Wittrina Suzanne Van Buren, 69, a widow living near Syracuse, N.Y., said she had no idea her property made Cape Coral's top 10 code enforcement lien list, owing $ 114,294 on two vacant lots at SIR N. W. 2nd St. SUSSMISE Receive the LftSt All Client Thers more than the property is worth. There's no way in the world they're getting that kind of Money," she said. Alerts In your inbox. Click here to subscribe! Van Buren said she hasn' t visited the property, which she bought as an investment, in years. She said shel be contacting the city. J RSS NEWSFEED The problem with daily ongoing fines is that some amounts are so huge — such as In Van Buren's case — theyli never be paid In full. Safeguard' s AN Client Alerts, delivered to your desktop. Also, collecting on code Hens for items such as lot mowing Is low on the list of debts paid in foreclosures, meaning local governments rarely see any of the Money. Local governments are trying to get the money. Cape Coral Code officials are proposing adoption of a law — either by city ordinance or having legislators amend the AM law. That would make code enforcement (lens equal to tax liens and mortgages, which have the highest priority, said Frank Cassidy, head of the city's Code Compliance Division. The ordinance or state law amendment would cover the costs the city incurred to maintain abandoned property, he said. httn:// www.safeguardproperties.com/ content/view/ 2119/ 106/ 1/ 22/ 2009 Safeguard Properties - Florida Code Violations and Proposed Ordinances Page 2 of 3 In Cape Coral, that amounts to $153, 000 the city paid to mow 2,700 lots from June 2007 through the first week of October this year, Cassidy said. That amounts to $630,000 In such costs as of Oct. 1, Titmuss said. He said courts have ruled that taxpayers' shouldnt be stuck with the bats for maintaining abandoned property. Bonita Springs The problem In Bonita Springs is growing. More than 120 homes in Bonita Springs have more than $4.67 million in hens against them. The problem in Bonita Springs is brand new, said code enforcement officer Danielle Helmick. It was rare that you would see any property