FEMA pay puzzles landlord The owner of the Madeira Beach apartments got two checks but never housed Katrina victims. The $6,000 is being returned. By JUSTIN GEORGE Published October 4, 2005 MADEIRA BEACH - Liz Taylor opened her mother's mail last week to find two checks worth nearly $6,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The checks were written to Sandcastle Apartments, owned by Taylor's mother, for housing Hurricane Katrina evacuees. But Sandcastle never housed any evacuees. In fact, the two Madeira Beach units haven't been rented since spring. "I was shocked when they came, and certainly I never considered...