Sabena Sokhi moved into an Orange County rental home in late July only to discover, more than a month later, that code enforcement had condemned the property before she ever signed a lease. She says she had no idea the home carried a county condemnation notice when she agreed to rent it, and the revelation left her shaken.
“I was in absolute shock. I broke down in tears,” Sokhi said, according to WKMG, which first reported her account. Sokhi is renting the home from Main Street Renewal, the property management arm of Amherst Holdings, and she says she did not know about the condemnation before moving in.
A Sticker That Disappeared Without Explanation
The home carried a county condemnation notice, according to the same WKMG account. County records reviewed by the station show the notice was later removed by an unidentified person, and a county employee told WKMG that someone had taken down the original condemnation notice without authorization.
The property’s owner never contacted Orange County about the violations, the report notes.
County Calls It an Error, Says Case Is Resolved
Orange County said the condemnation notice remained on the property in error after the major life-safety violations were brought into compliance…