One missed HOA payment could cost a Hillsborough family their home. The family is taking on the Rivercrest Community Association, who just sold their $300,000 home at auction. The family claims they had no warning. Now the fight to save their home could very well leave them homeless.
The family has called their Rivercrest neighborhood home since 2005, when they bought if for around $270,000. The HOA put a foreclosure lien on the house and recently sold it at auction for $19,000. The family’s cut: $14,000.
The family said they had been paying their annual dues, but say they did not get a notice that the HOA was missing a 2009 payment for four years. In that time, $150 turned into $750 then $3,000 in fees. They agreed to a payment plan with HOA lawyers. The HOA’s law firm, Bush Ross landed in a class-action suit accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
The family received $300 from the settlement and thought they no longer owed the past dues, so they stopped paying. They were scheduled to make a plea to a Hillsborough County judge on August 31. The Clerk’s Office told the media that court documents from April gave the family a month to pay their then-$4,300 balance or the home would be auctioned.
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