Oh, like an HOA on steroids. Cancelling an HOA is about as hard as getting rid of a timeshare. Better chance of building a rocket to the moon in the garage. LOL!
If possible, never live in a municipality or incorporated area. Fed, state, and county are bad enough to deal with.
Government does not need to have compasssion. Government has the power (but not the right) to do this sort of thing, and you have no recourse.
Never mind the bull$hit about violating any amendment. They don’t care about amendments or the entire Constitution.
Deep down, it’s because statists don’t want you to have private property. So they take a little bit at a time. The big act of theft is the “property tax” whereby they take 3% a year from you. After 33 years they will have confiscated the entire value of the property.
And you thought that it was “yours.”
Yes, I hate government overreach and abuse of power.
Eminent Domain by the back door. There is no such thing as a true “fee simple” title to the holder of the title in the chain of custody of real estate. The local taxing authority, be it municipal, county or state, always has an implied lien for tax purposes, which in this instance, was compounded by fees and fines assessed for failure to comply with local ordinance.
Is it legal? Short answer, yes. Is it justified? Probably, the penalty imposed was MUCH too harsh, and should be adjudicated in some way, but that again involves much legal legwork, and may, in the end, greatly exceed the amount of the fine or even the total value of the property in question.
Ya know - these people have names. And addresses.
The citizens should stop treating them like an entity that can't be dealt with.
If memory serves. His house is older typical Florida beach house just a few blocks from the Gulf. The city no doubt is hoping for a buyer who will knock it down and build a larger in your face dwelling that will generate a higher property tax.
Anyone who thinks they own a home... you don’t. Nice American dream tax scheme though.
Go rentta Bulldozer and Knock their own Homes down to rubble
If the city is doing this to all the residents, why don’t the residents just vote for new leadership, and have them change the laws?
Every day that goes by and we don’t hear of another Carl Drega I’m both surprised and dismayed.