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.
