Thank you for reviewing my question! I have a home that was foreclosed upon. We initially moved some belongings (treasured memories,keepsakes) but kept certain other belongings in the home. We have been back and forth between the home and the in laws where the majority of our belongings are -- but had no room for many of our things. I called the bank last week to find out if they would be willing to negotiate a short sale, and found out that the property had already been through the sherriff sale. I immediately ordered a POD and stayed at the inlaws over the weekend. That very weekend, the bank came and changed the locks on our home. We still have things there, but they have told me I will be trespassing if I go there! We have many of our belongings there! My wife is crushed! I don't know what to do - doesn't fl have some sort of eviction law to protect homeowners? I wasn't disclosed anything, and now they are in possesstion of nearly everything I own!

Read this: "78.01 Right of replevin." See: Chapter 78 - REPLEVIN - Florida CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - Florida Code :: Justia

In foreclosure if the property is considered vacant, ( not being lived in) they will have a real estate company or other company secure the property to protect it. This is a comom practice, as a real estate agent that was invovled in some this last year, we often had to check to see if there were utilities on at a home, or if there was obvous people living there. If it was obvoius, or if the owners said they were not living there, the lenders would have us secure the homes.

I can not go to any specific law but I know this was and is common practice in those cases.