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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________ No. 1D20-590 _____________________________ SOLOMON BROWN, Appellant, v. U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A. as Trustee for LS11 Master Participation Trust; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF SOLOMON BROWN; UNKNOWN TENANT #1; and UNKNOWN TENANT #2, Appellees. _____________________________ On appeal from the Circuit Court for Gulf County. Shonna Young Gay, Judge. August 2, 2021 PER CURIAM. AFFIRMED. See F.M.W. Props., Inc. v. Peoples First Fin. Sav. & Loan Ass’n, 606 So. 2d 372, 377–78 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992) (“We note, however, that the failure to organize arguments under cogent and distinct issues on appeal presents sufficient reason for an appellate court to decline consideration of a matter.”); cf. Redditt v. State, 84 So. 2d 317 (Fla. 1955); see also Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 834 n. 46 (1975) (“The right of self-representation is not a license . . . not to comply with relevant rules of procedural and substantive law.”); Applegate v. Barnett Bank of Tallahassee, 377 So. 2d 1150, 1152 (Fla. 1979) (explaining that “[i]n appellate proceedings the decision of a trial court has the presumption of correctness and the burden is on the appellant to demonstrate error,” so “the lack of a trial transcript or a proper substitute” results in a record that is “inadequate to demonstrate reversible error” and requires affirmance); Schmidt v. Reyes, 274 So. 2d 242, 245 (Fla. 1st DCA 1973) (explaining that in absence of trial transcript and record of evidence adduced, we will assume “that the evidence adduced before the court was sufficiently competent and substantial to support the action taken”). ROWE, C.J., and ROBERTS and TANENBAUM, JJ., concur. _____________________________ Not final until disposition of any timely and authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or 9.331. _____________________________ Solomon Brown, pro se, Appellant. David Rosenberg and Jarrett Cooper of Robertson, Anschutz & Schneid, P.L., Boca Raton for Appellee U.S. Bank Trust, N.A. 2