Lack Of Proper Notice A Problem In Foreclosure Sales Of Property Over Delinquent Real Estate Taxes?

A 2007 article appearing in The Florida Bar Journal addresses the problem of lack of proper notice to a homeowner in the context of a foreclosure for failure to pay real estate taxes. The author makes this observation:

• [T]wo recent decisions(1) applying due process protection to tax deed sales have imposed more stringent notice requirements than have prevailed in prior years, tilting the playing field to the advantage of property owners challenging tax deed sales due to a lack of notice.

For more, see Florida Tax Deed Sales Are Getting Risky.

Go here and go here for other posts on foreclosures involving faulty notifications to property owners.

(1) The decisions cited are the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Jones v. Flowers, 547 U.S. 220 (2006), and the Florida Supreme Court decision in Vosilla v. Rosado, 944 So. 2d 289 (Fla. 2006). foreclosure faulty notice