The Florida Senate Judiciary Committee meets today to consider changes to foreclosure process. It’s a bad bill with next to nothing for consumers, but that isn’t seeming to slow down the progress here:
SB 1890, Foreclosure, is in Senate Judiciary Monday, February 20 at
10:30. Please e-mail committee members before 10:30, noting “Oppose
SB 1890” in the subject line. I have listed their e-mails so you can
cut and paste.
Here is a link to the committee page and at the bottom
are their full names: https://www.flsenate.gov/
Bill sponsor is Jack Latvala. Include him in your e-mails – I have
added his name to the cut and paste below.
flores.anitere.web@flsenate.
richter.garrett.web@flsenate.
latvala.jack.web@flsenate.gov
Senator Anitere Flores (R)
Vice Chair:
Senator Arthenia L. Joyner (D)
Senator Oscar Braynon, II (D)
Senator Andy Gardiner (R)
Senator Garrett Richter (R)
Senator David Simmons (R)
Senator John Thrasher (R)
Keep e-mails brief.
Show cause hearing will force homeowners to be prepared to
try cases as early as 20 days after service; judges must review files
for completeness which will be difficult to determine solely from a
paper review; the provisions for abandonment allow private process
servers to be involved in a volatile situation; limiting homeowners to
money damages upon challenge of the foreclosure judgment is egregious
overreaching – real estate is unique, and the original homeowners
should not be deprived of real estate without due process.
Unfortunately what no one brought up in the public comments is the fact that the bill not only blesses fraudsters with unbridled ownership of the property, but permits the fraudsters to be paid by the homeowner for the privilege of defending the fraud, permits the fraudsters to take possession of the property if the homeowner doesn’t pay, and then permits the real owner/holder to sue the homeowner again. Quadruple wammy. It’s great to be an american.