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A handyman was left in shock after being handed a daunting
bill of over $1 million for code violations on his Florida home
from the previous residents.
Denny Dorcey bought his home 10 years ago when it was
set for foreclosure and completely overhauled the space.
He added bespoke cabinets, restored old televisions
and an oven, as well as other adjustments.
'I'm, you know, I'm holding on to a little bit of the 70s that I enjoyed when I was
a kid,' he told WSVN.
Dorcey, however, was left in shock after he was issued a whopping bill of
$1,097,400 for code violations on his home.
'The letter said that I owe the city over $1 million for code violation fines from the
time before I bought the house,' he said.
The letter detailed four minor violations committed by previous residents.
'Petty things like overgrown weeds trashing the carport,' he added.
Yet there were no fines or liens detailed when Dorcey
had bought the house, and he was none the wiser
until he received the letter ten years later.
Denny Dorcey bought the home, set for foreclosure, and rebuilt it but
was left in shock after he was issued a whopping bill
of $1,097,400 for code violations on his home
The letter detailed four minor violations committed by previous residents.
'Petty things like overgrown weeds trashing the carport,' Dorcey said
When Dorcey told them he wouldn't be able to pay
such a large fine, he was told to call the collection agency and
negotiate a settlement. The daunting price was out of Dorcey's reach but,
while the fines aren't his fault, the bill is still his responsibility
Oakland Park only notified Dorcey after allegedly clearing old files and happened to come across his.
'That's how it all started,' he added.
When Dorcey told them he wouldn't be able to pay such a large fine, he was told to call the collection agency and negotiate a settlement.
The daunting price was out of Dorcey's reach but, while the fines aren't his fault, the bill is still
his responsibility.
A legal expert for 7News, Howard Finkelstein, said that it is
perfectly legal for Government agencies to wait ten years, for example, to notify
a new homeowner about the fines therefore allowing them
to grow.
'But in this case, the city cannot do this to Denny because he bought the property in foreclosure and
that wiped out any existing liens and fines
that the city had,' he added.
The outlet notified Oakland Park, who checked the 2010 case and found the
property was not brought into compliance before it was foreclosed upon. The city was not notified of the foreclosure, reported WSVN.
Dorcey's $1 million fine was therefore dropped and the lien wiped.
A legal expert for 7News, Howard Finkelstein, said that it is perfectly legal for Government agencies to wait to notify the buyer of
such a bill, but in this case it wasn't legal due to the foreclosure
'Without you guys, they would have destroyed my life
completely. There's no doubt in my mind,' Dorcey said
'Without you guys, they would have destroyed my
life completely. There's no doubt in my mind,' he said.
The shocking situation that almost bankrupt Dorcey highlighted the importance for new homeowners to double
check for liens on a home before buying.
Dorcey's story comes not long after another couple had
plans for their dream home in Florida, but were
quickly left $17,500 dollars down while paying taxes
on unusable land.
Donna Hartl and her husband bought the $17,500 property with
plans to relocate from North Dakota to Brooksville, Florida.
Their dreams were quickly crushed after a neighbor alerted them to a decades-old easement on the land
with Duke Energy.
The easement prohibited any building within feet of the utility pole, but the couple were still left paying taxes on the unusable land.
Hartl, however, said they had done their homework on the land and
saw no red flags throughout the entire process.
Donna Hartl and her husband bought the $17,500 property with plans to relocate from North Dakota to Brooksville, Florida,
but their dreams were crushed after a neighbor told them they could
never build there
'I was getting the green light on everything. My property was
being brought up on the GIS map at the county, I got my setbacks,
what I could and couldn't do. I could bring a modular home in, a mobile home, or I could
do a single-family residence,' Hartl said
When they later came to visit the property, they
found a line of huge concrete utility poles with one on their land.
'[We] came to our property on Monday November 11 and saw that pole behind us and went "Whoa, whoa, whoa",' Hartl said
The couple brought in a builder to draft plans for their home and
had County records confirm the property was zoned
for residential or agricultural use.
'I was getting the green light on everything. My property was being brought up on the GIS map at the county, I got my setbacks, what I could and couldn't do.
I could bring a modular home in, a mobile home,
or I could do a single-family residence,' Hartl told WFLA.
While county workers insisted that she could still build, they were later corrected by an uncovered
document from 1955.
The document stipulated the decades-old utility easement that prohibited construction within 100 feet of
the pole in any direction, leaving almost the entire
piece of land unusable for their new home.
What was left was a 600-square-foot corner that wouldn't accommodate a home
due to septic and well requirements.
'So, that leaves nothing,' she said.
Hartl said she has filed complaints with the Florida Attorney General's office
and several state regulators.
She added that Nexgen representatives have told her they note information provided to them
by the seller of the property.
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