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Deputy's wife filing for adverse possession of Riverview home
RIVERVIEW --
The wife of a Manatee County Sheriff's deputy is being charged with moving her family into a house without the owner's permission.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says Jeanella Pollock, 51, was living with her husband and teenage children in a vacant house on Potomac Circle in Riverview. The sheriff's office says Pollock broke into the house, moved her family in and changed the locks. She faces burglary and grand theft charges.
She filed an adverse possession form with the Hillsborough Property Appraiser's Office. Florida law allows people to ask a judge to declare abandoned property theirs if they fix it up and occupy it for seven years while paying the taxes.
"But understand, you're still trespassing," said Will Shepherd, general council for the Hillsborough County Property's Appraiser's Office, "You're still trespassing and if you kick in the front door of a house, you're breaking and entering. All that adverse possession does is say if no one comes after you for trespassing or breaking and entering and in seven years, you might have an opportunity to acquire this property."
Deputy's wife filing for adverse possession of Riverview home | Bay News 9
I think I read another article about something like this before. That's a nice looking house for being abandoned.
RIVERVIEW --
The wife of a Manatee County Sheriff's deputy is being charged with moving her family into a house without the owner's permission.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says Jeanella Pollock, 51, was living with her husband and teenage children in a vacant house on Potomac Circle in Riverview. The sheriff's office says Pollock broke into the house, moved her family in and changed the locks. She faces burglary and grand theft charges.
She filed an adverse possession form with the Hillsborough Property Appraiser's Office. Florida law allows people to ask a judge to declare abandoned property theirs if they fix it up and occupy it for seven years while paying the taxes.
"But understand, you're still trespassing," said Will Shepherd, general council for the Hillsborough County Property's Appraiser's Office, "You're still trespassing and if you kick in the front door of a house, you're breaking and entering. All that adverse possession does is say if no one comes after you for trespassing or breaking and entering and in seven years, you might have an opportunity to acquire this property."
Deputy's wife filing for adverse possession of Riverview home | Bay News 9
I think I read another article about something like this before. That's a nice looking house for being abandoned.