Mello-Roos / CFD Special Tax Disclosure
A special tax you must always verify — on a resale, the seller must make a good-faith effort to get and deliver the Notice of Special Tax.
When a property lies within a Community Facilities District (Mello-Roos), the seller in a resale of a one-to-four-unit home must make a good-faith effort to obtain a Notice of Special Tax from each agency that levies the tax and deliver it to the buyer; the agency must provide it within 5 working days, for a fee of up to $15. The notice shows the special tax and its maximum, and the actual levy can change from year to year up to that maximum. A subdivider selling new homes in a district has a stricter duty: the buyer must receive and sign the notice before signing the purchase contract, and may cancel within 3 days if it was handed over or 5 days if it was mailed. Whether a resale buyer who gets the notice late can cancel has not been decided by a court. Buyers routinely under-estimate these taxes — they can add thousands per year.
Mello-Roos coverage isn't comprehensive — our address-level flags cover a subset of counties, and districts change over time — so LetterScript treats it as a must-verify item, not a guarantee. Where our boundary and county-roll data carry a flag we surface it, but a clean result is never proof there's no CFD. Always confirm the special tax against the county tax bill and the district (CFD) administrator before close.
The property is inside a Community Facilities District (CFD / Mello-Roos).
Civ. Code §1102.6b and Gov. Code §53340.2 (resale: the seller's good-faith effort to obtain and deliver the Notice of Special Tax); Gov. Code §53341.5 (sales by a subdivider only: signed notice and the buyer's cancellation window).
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