SAVE OUR HOMES PORTABILITY

If you submit a 2008 application for homestead exemption and owned property in Florida that was homesteaded in 2007, then with the passing of Constitutional Amendment One, you may be eligible to transfer all or a portion of your previous “Save Our Homes” assessment difference. If you are eligible you must bring the following information to the Property Appraisers Office before March 01, 2008 and file in person:

a. Name of applicant;

b. County of previous homestead;

c. Address of previous homestead;

d. Parcel ID of previous homestead;

e. A list of the names of all co-applicants who were owners of the previous homestead and who made that homestead their permanent residence;

f. A list of the names of all other owners of the previous homestead who are not applying for the transfer;

g. Date previous homestead was sold, no longer used or abandoned as a homestead;

h. Affirmative statement that none of the previous owners remained in the homestead;

I. Sworn statement attesting to entitlement to the transfer of the Save Our Homes assessment difference by the applicant and all co-applicants who owned and lived in the previous homestead.