Growing impatient with overwhelmed lenders which are allowing their foreclosed homes to fall into disrepair, cities across the U.S. are now instituting ordinances and levying fines for those whom don't cooperate. From a BuilderOnline.com story:
Frustrated by the increasing number of foreclosed properties sitting vacant and untended, cities across the country are responding with ordinances that require the owners--the lenders that took back the houses--to maintain the properties or face heavy fines.
The California legislature is expected next week to pass a statewide law that would allow local governments to assess a fine of up to $1,000 a day on the owners of foreclosed properties who don’t maintain them. The bill also has strict requirements for notifying mortgage holders that the foreclosure process has started, and gives tenants living in a foreclosed property additional time to move. Considered an urgency measure, the bill would take effect immediately after being signed by the governor...
Cathedral City, located in what was once the white-hot real estate market of Riverside County, Calif., is one of the cities that has recently passed laws requiring owners of foreclosed properties to register the property with the city. Among other requirements, the ordinance requires owners to pay a $70 annual registration fee, secure the property, keep it free of debris, landscape the front and side yards to neighborhood standards, clean or drain the pool, and hire a local property manager to inspect it weekly.
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