Post by BagLady on Oct 27, 2013 4:26:10 GMT -5
Scratchin' my head again....(it's not easy through this bag)
wee willy reminded me about an assessment deliquency which was quite severe. ww asserted SLohA had not pursued it due to its status as a Florida homestead. Since I knew that could not have been the reason, I wondered about its current status. I knew from the publishing of the SLohA Financial Report Delinquency Report back in Dec 2012 that the delinquent owner's name was Pitts.
The subject lot is 1 Grayhackle and it now has a For Sale sign on it. My first thought was the 5 year lien had been paid by the owner, Pamela A Pitts, who was putting it up for sale.
Wrong. The lot is now owned by N/A Premier Homes in Winter Park and was sold for $100 by Pamela Pitts in March 2013.
Well OK. Pammy must have paid off her lien to SLohA--"We're in the money"---a windfall for IT to spend more $ on signs!
Wrong again. There is no recorded Satisfaction of Lien. The original lien for almost $4K was recorded in 2008 and is continuing. There must have been $15K+ in unpaid assessments and attorney fees. Why wasn't this lot foreclosed on?
Maybe because Pitts was sent to Jail for forgery and grand theft in 2009--felony charges. Could that put the kabosh on a foreclosure? I don't know the answer to that or why SLohA did not pursue foreclosure but clearly it had nothing to do with Florida Homestead, since Florida permits foreclosures for non-payment of HOA assessments.
In any case, reviewing her criminal case, I found that the last thing on the court docket was a letter received in Feb 2013 for reduction of sentence. About a month later, she transferred a warranty deed on the SLR lot to N/A Premier Homes, Inc. in Winter Park. Her current address was listed as Haines City but there is no action releasing her listed on the court document so perhaps she is still in jail and executed the deed from there.
Pitts has an extensive history of civil complaints against her and her company, Best Value Mobile Homes Inc., (now a dissolved FL corp) by banks, financing companies, individuals, retail stores, state tax, criminal judgements court costs and a Federal IRS lien. One complaint was a million dollar + suit against her for conversion of funds and she was adjudicated "guilty".
I found it very odd that this deed was conveyed to someone other than SLohA. Who is N/A Premier Homes, Inc. and how did it come to be aware of this property and its status? How was Pitts able to convey this property without satisfying the SLohA lien on the property? (The only conceivable possibility I can come up with is that she paid SLohA and SLohA has not recorded the Satisfaction of Lien. If that were the case, one would have thought the BOD would have considered that a "feather in their cap" and announced the resolution of this very large, continuing assessment arrears.)
This is public record, so all facts can be easily verified.
wee willy reminded me about an assessment deliquency which was quite severe. ww asserted SLohA had not pursued it due to its status as a Florida homestead. Since I knew that could not have been the reason, I wondered about its current status. I knew from the publishing of the SLohA Financial Report Delinquency Report back in Dec 2012 that the delinquent owner's name was Pitts.
The subject lot is 1 Grayhackle and it now has a For Sale sign on it. My first thought was the 5 year lien had been paid by the owner, Pamela A Pitts, who was putting it up for sale.
Wrong. The lot is now owned by N/A Premier Homes in Winter Park and was sold for $100 by Pamela Pitts in March 2013.
Well OK. Pammy must have paid off her lien to SLohA--"We're in the money"---a windfall for IT to spend more $ on signs!
Wrong again. There is no recorded Satisfaction of Lien. The original lien for almost $4K was recorded in 2008 and is continuing. There must have been $15K+ in unpaid assessments and attorney fees. Why wasn't this lot foreclosed on?
Maybe because Pitts was sent to Jail for forgery and grand theft in 2009--felony charges. Could that put the kabosh on a foreclosure? I don't know the answer to that or why SLohA did not pursue foreclosure but clearly it had nothing to do with Florida Homestead, since Florida permits foreclosures for non-payment of HOA assessments.
In any case, reviewing her criminal case, I found that the last thing on the court docket was a letter received in Feb 2013 for reduction of sentence. About a month later, she transferred a warranty deed on the SLR lot to N/A Premier Homes, Inc. in Winter Park. Her current address was listed as Haines City but there is no action releasing her listed on the court document so perhaps she is still in jail and executed the deed from there.
Pitts has an extensive history of civil complaints against her and her company, Best Value Mobile Homes Inc., (now a dissolved FL corp) by banks, financing companies, individuals, retail stores, state tax, criminal judgements court costs and a Federal IRS lien. One complaint was a million dollar + suit against her for conversion of funds and she was adjudicated "guilty".
I found it very odd that this deed was conveyed to someone other than SLohA. Who is N/A Premier Homes, Inc. and how did it come to be aware of this property and its status? How was Pitts able to convey this property without satisfying the SLohA lien on the property? (The only conceivable possibility I can come up with is that she paid SLohA and SLohA has not recorded the Satisfaction of Lien. If that were the case, one would have thought the BOD would have considered that a "feather in their cap" and announced the resolution of this very large, continuing assessment arrears.)
This is public record, so all facts can be easily verified.
