Florida Real Estate Blog

Property acquisition should begin soon with contacts to the home owners impacted before the end of the year.  Then the County/State will order Appraisals and make offers to purchase the impacted land.  You do have options if the offer seems low you can negotiate but it will require you have some data to support you. 

Mag, Maggie and I are very familure with this area and can support you during this time. As members of our Home Owners Association it would be our pleasure to offer this to our members free of charge. As both our Canadiets for President have said.  Service to the community/country is what we should all consider. 

Tonight the County has provided to all owners that back up to 434 the opportunity to build a wall 6' to 8' tall on the owners land. Not on the land they purchase. This is a good thing in that we would have a common wall that runs the length of our community and it would be built by the Government.  Not sure if all of it will be free at this time based on the type of construction we chose.   Concerns should be that we will maintain it after construction and those homeowners will have to provide 5' of their land for county right of way to build the wall, after that it is all theirs or the Homeowners association.  If the Homeowners association. That opens a whole other can of worms.

The county stated (Brett) that we did not qualify for a Noise reduction wall  (and our Board President does not believe it will be attractive).  I asked Brett to confirm if any other area on the 434 widening project qualified for a noise wall and he said no they did not.  I also stated after giving my name and address to the Board that the Noise wall would be maintained by the county and State where our 6' to 8' wall will be maintained by us even though the wall is not on a common area (could be a problem). As the Board said tonight we must have more input on this issue.  More to come.