Selling a House With Liens or Code Violations In Miami Gardens? We Can Buy Your House For Cash.

A violation from the day they bought it, at two hundred dollars a day

A single family house in Miami Gardens that had been in violation from the day the seller bought it, and nobody had told them.

The property needed a re-occupancy before it could lawfully be lived in. They did not know that. It is not an unreasonable thing not to know — it is a municipal step that does not announce itself at a closing table, and plenty of people buy a house without ever hearing the phrase. It was never done, so the violation existed from the beginning.

They owned it around two years and rented it out. Then the tenant stopped paying.

So now there is no income arriving. And the violation that had been sitting quietly started being served — and a violation that goes unanswered becomes a lien, and the lien carries fines that accrue. This one was running at about two hundred dollars a day.

Two hundred a day, on a house producing nothing, against an owner who did not know the meter was running. That is the part that does the real damage. A fine you know about is a bill. A fine you do not know about is a number getting quietly larger while you get on with your life, and by the time it has your attention it is into the tens of thousands.

Getting out of it took two separate legal processes, not one. An attorney to run the eviction, because a tenant who has stopped paying does not leave because they were asked. And a second attorney to work on mitigating the fines, which is its own specialist exercise with the county and not something the first attorney does. Neither is quick, and both cost money — money that was meant to be coming from a rent nobody was paying.

We bought it and took all of it on. The fines were dealt with. The re-occupancy was completed properly, which is the thing that should have happened at the very start. The tenancy was ended through the court, which is the only way it can be done and have it stay done.

And then the actual work began — the updates, the repairs, bringing the house back. Which is worth noticing, because it is what people underestimate about a property in this position. Every one of those steps happens before a single useful thing gets done to the building. The renovation is the straightforward part, and it is last in the queue.