The county's code enforcement board will decide June 16 on thetotal penalty Pulte will pay. The board alleges Pulte knew it wasviolating the construction code when it converted a garage bay intoa fourth bedroom at the 39 properties. Pulte has told thecommission it did so after customers, many of them investors,demanded a fourth bedroom.

At least half of the homes in the Windsor Hills subdivision ofsingle-family and townhomes will be sold to investors who use theproperties as short-term rentals, a favorite commodity forinternational tourists who desire to be near the Disneyattractions, commissioners tell GlobeSt.com.

The 39 four-bedroom homes, illegally constructed, have been soldin the $300,000 range for a total $11.7 million, Osceola Countybrokers following the controversy tell GlobeSt.com. If the countyrules Pulte has to demolish the 39 homes, the Michigan-basedbuilder would have to refund the purchase price to the homeowners,county planning department staffers confirm to GlobeSt.com.