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Orange County Code Enforcement Fines Pine Hills Homeowner $70 Thousand Dollars For Failing To Replace Garage Window

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Category: Lifestyle/People

Published: Friday, 25 June 2021 15:45

Written by Maggie Santana

By Maggie Santana
We are in Urgent Need of a General Contractor that can install 1 garage window at our home in unincorporated Orange County located in the Pine hills area. Code Enforcement of Orange County has harassed us for over 3 years on same issue and we have fixed it but not to their new standards.

The window was not professionally installed and now they require a permit which we can not obtain since we are not the deceased owners name. We have struggled to pay for probate as this house was left to my fiancé 6 years ago when his granny passed away.

Since Covid and stimulus, we have been able to secure an attorney willing to work with us on a payment plan and we have already made the down payment.

So to speed things up Code Enforcement files a Judgment in 2020 for the same window and is charging us a $100 a day fine and now totals $70 thousand dollars. They will not honor the Court Recorded Will, that names my fiancé as Personal Representative of the Estate in order to correct the issues and pull a permit as the owner.

Code Enforcement were the ones that instructed us to get his name as personal rep on the c/o line on Address for property appraiser office and now they will not accept our permit application.

They did inform us however we can hire a General Contractor to put in a whole new window but neglected to tell us giving us only 1 week before court. We found a good window at Lowes that will qualify and now we just need a General Contractor to pull the permit and install.

I have already drew the site plan drawing. We have already gone to court this past Monday. They are proceeding to Foreclosure for this 1 Garage Window. I repeat 1 window. Now FYI they know this house has NO mortgage and they neglected to file the judgment for 2 years and now file for Foreclosure.

This property has increased by damn near over 100k in 2 years. This was calculated and pure intentional. They waited till about a week before the pre-foreclosure hearing to tell us just hire a contractor cause pretty much we are NOT going to allow you to pull a permit regardless if you are the Personal Representative or not.

So now we ask for help from our Community. I believe this is a platform where we can be heard. We pray that we can remedy this situation swiftly before we become the next gentrification victims.

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