Homebuilder Stiffs Customer, Then Files Lien & Starts Foreclosing On Lot, Says Property Owner

In Palm Coast, Florida, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports:

• Brenda Shakes said she has, at times, felt lucky to only be out $40,000 to two Palm Coast builders facing charges of grand theft and organized fraud involving other homebuyers. She fired Herbert Heron and Noel Richardson, owners of Canterbury Estate Homes, because she said the builders weren't doing any work on her home and had not disclosed that they owned the title company that closed the loan. But now, they're after her land, Shakes said.

• "Instead of them apologizing and trying to make things right by us, they still want to continue to put us through hell, emotionally and financially," Shakes said in an e-mail. She said she was shocked when the men filed a lien against her land and started the foreclosure process, citing breach of contract.

• Heron, 58, and Richardson, 54, were arrested in September and accused of bilking customers and subcontractors out of more than $400,000, investigators said. They were also named in multiple related civil lawsuits that are still pending. Heron and Richardson were released from jail Oct. 4 after each posted $100,000 bail.

For more, see Woman says Palm Coast builders put her 'through hell'.

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