Flooded Brevard apartments reach deadline for around 90 families to leave

Roughly 90 families at a Brevard County apartment complex are scrambling to find new housing after severe flooding damaged their buildings, prompting property management to issue a 48-hour notice to vacate.Last week’s heavy flooding soaked entire buildings at the Windover Palms Apartments, leaving standing water inside units and destroying personal belongings. On Wednesday, management notified affected residents that they must leave the damaged apartments by Friday.

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While property management emphasized that the notice is not an eviction, officials said the building requires at least six months of extensive repairs before it will be safe for occupancy. Residents will be permitted to return until the 20th of the month to retrieve any salvageable belongings, and the complex stated it will refund rent and security deposits in the coming days.

For Tolani Fonville, the sudden displacement has upended what was supposed to be a fresh start. Fonville moved into the complex just a month ago with h