Green Tree Servicing, LLC v. Gloria Goins

192 So. 3d 679, 2016 WL 3092657, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 8350

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: June 1, 2016
• Docket: 4D14-4722
• Status: Published

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

The appellant, Green Tree Servicing, appeals a final judgment in favor of the homeowner, in which the court- concluded that strict compliance with the notice of default provisions in paragraph twenty-two of the mortgage was necessary. Specifically, the court found that because the notice provided by Green Tree failed to use the exact language Contained in that paragraph, Green Tree had failed to comply with a condition precedent. In Lopez v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, 187 So.3d 343, 345 (Fla. 4th DCA 2016), decided after the final judgment in this case, we held that “a notice of default need only substantially comply with a mortgage’s condition precedent,” Lopez considered a notice of default with the identical language as the notice sent-,in this case and held that-it substan tially complied with paragraph twenty-two, thus satisfying the condition precedent to foreclosure under the mortgage. Consistent with Lopez, we reverse the final judgment and remand for further proceedings.

CIKLIN, C.J., WARNER and GERBER, JJ., concur.