MARKET TAMPA INVESTMENTS LLC v. DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY 2007 2007 (2017)

MARKET TAMPA INVESTMENTS, LLC, Appellant, v. DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, as trustee for Novastar Mortgage Funding Trust, Series 2007–I Novastar Home Equity Loan Asset–Backed Certificates, Series 2007–I; Engelique D. Dupree–Ferguson; Charles B. Ferguson; Country Hills Homeowners Association, Inc.; Unknown Tenant #1; Unknown Tenant #2, Appellees.

Case No. 2D15–5683

Decided: May 05, 2017

Heather S. DeGrave of Walters Levine, P.A., Tampa (withdrew after briefing); Lee Segal of Florida Foreclosure & Credit Defense Firm, P.L., Clearwater, for Appellant. Zina Gabsi and Adwoa Ghartey–Tagoe Seymour of Bryan Cave, LLP, Miami; and W. Bard Brockman and Christian J. Bromley of Bryan Cave, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia (substituted as counsels of record), for Appellee Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as trustee for Novastar Mortgage Funding Trust, Series 2007–I Novastar Home Equity Loan Asset–Backed Certificates, Series 2007–I. No appearance for remaining Appellees.

Market Tampa Investments, LLC, appeals the final foreclosure judgment entered in favor of Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as trustee. On Deutsche Bank's concession of error, we reverse the attorney's fee award in the foreclosure judgment without remand because the award is not supported by competent, substantial evidence. See Michel v. Bank of N.Y. Mellon, 191 So. 3d 981, 984 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016) (“Because the bank did not present any evidence of attorney's fees at trial, we reverse the fee award without remand on that issue.”). We otherwise affirm the foreclosure judgment without comment.

Affirmed in part; reversed in part.

KHOUZAM, Judge.

CASANUEVA and WALLACE, JJ., Concur.

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