Gainesville takes ownership of home following foreclosure and years of neighbor complaints

Neighbors of a northwest Gainesville homeowner have complained for two decades about Douglas Englert’s property and contacted the city’s code enforcement division seeking change.

Englert owned the house at 4105 NW 22nd Drive until April 9, when the city was issued the title to the property as part of a foreclosure case in Alachua County Circuit Civil Court.

It was an extraordinary culmination to the controversy in the Edgewood neighborhood that began in 2006…

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