Uncut grass could mean foreclosure for Florida man

Dunedin’s Jim Ficken tells FOX 13 he may be about to lose his home because his grass grew too high. According to Jim and his attorneys, while he was out of town last summer, taking care of his late mother’s estate, his grass grew and grew and grew. He says he paid a friend to cut it, but that friend died unexpectedly. Jim was on the hook for $500-per-day fines. They say it that went on for 57 days, totaling nearly $30,000. Jim is retired and on a fixed income. He says he wasn’t made aware of the fines u
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