Per the following article:
A million plus homeowners in Puerto Rico do not have written documented title to their homesites.
Any one have experience surveying in PR?
What are the public records systems like?
Paul in PA
This may be in the wrong category.
I thought FEMA disaster assistance was created to help people with their Homes, not investigate "title". Title to the underlaying land is way off point.
This seems like this is just a quick way to avoid 3/4 of the valid claims.
Without these rules in place, the news reports would be about the millions of FEMA aid dollars that had disappeared due to graft, corruption, and fraudulent claims.
FEMA has aid for non home owners, but to get money to replace/repair a home proof of title is required.
Per the article many may simply be squatters at the present locations, after being displaced from homes elsewhere by past hurricanes. If they may have been in possession long enough to have color of titles, what is the means in PR to perfect said rights into titles?
Because these are/were unplanned communities, the utilities are also an unplanned hodge podge, which seriously affects the replacement of same.
Paul in PA