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Revealed: Majority of Florida condo
board QUIT in 2019 as president slammed
inaction and bickering over damning
engineer's report that said $15m needed
to be spent on urgent repairs

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Posted By: Ribicon, 7/1/2021 1:26:38 PM

Most of the board members of the condominium that collapsed last week resigned in 2019, with the president of the board slamming inaction and bickering over an engineer's report calling for urgent repairs. Board president Anette Goldstein was among five members of the seven-person board who resigned in a two-week period in the fall of 2019, according to meeting minutes reported by the Washington Post.(Snip) The Morabito report focused attention on the pool deck, which was found to have waterproofing underneath that had failed and had been laid flat instead of sloping to drain off water. This threatened not only the concrete slab

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Shoddy construction, slipshod inspections, and a desire to avoid making necessary repairs? Of course not; government officials say the tower collapsed because of rising seas, caused by Global Warming, so we need to pay more taxes.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mc squared 7/1/2021 1:34:08 PM (No. 832652)
Condo/HOA boards = nothing but trouble. Petty little people with no ideas other than to sue, fine and harass. Other than that, I have no opinion.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Heraclitus 7/1/2021 1:51:56 PM (No. 832676)
$16 million in needed repairs, trouble getting a bank load, 700 grand in the condo association account. oh my word.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: hershey 7/1/2021 2:44:35 PM (No. 832750)
The only global warming was from the cash in their pockets picking up body heat...
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Reply 4 - Posted by: volksford 7/1/2021 2:52:43 PM (No. 832761)
Rising sea levels my butt when you have close to three million people sucking fresh water out of the aquifer you get salt water intrusion. As an aside when you shell out bucks for a condo you may as well realize you bought part of the damn building and you are going to be expected to pay upkeep. Looks like there is plenty of blame to go around.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: JHHolliday 7/1/2021 3:09:44 PM (No. 832787)
I'll bet those people who resigned are glad they did it now. Probably won't prevent them from getting roped in any way and cost them a fortune in legal fees.For the life of me, I can't imagine why anyone would want to serve on an HOA board of any kind. Nothing but trouble and half your neighbors will come to hate you. For that matter, I can't imagine buying a condo....assessments, bad or noisy unit owners and other drawbacks. I have a friend who bought an expensive condo in Palm Beach. Not only was it nearly 1,000 miles from his main residence but he said the price he paid coupled with the fees, etc. meant he could have stayed in the Ritz Carlton for two months every year and come out ahead. He has since sold it and did make a profit on it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: pmcclure 7/1/2021 4:50:46 PM (No. 832920)
I think we will see this scenario occurring at the national level before long: the complete and utter collapse of our country.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Schnapps 7/1/2021 5:06:17 PM (No. 832939)
At the end of the video Bite-me assures the group that the federal government will pick up the full tab.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: bad-hair 7/1/2021 5:35:24 PM (No. 832957)
Resigned and sold out while the Gittin was Good.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Zeek Wolfe 7/1/2021 8:34:50 PM (No. 833113)
HOA boards always seem to be filled with people you would not trust to run a hot dog stand at the beach. Go to an HOA meeting and 15 people will promote their own personal and very annoyng pop-up ad about what ever issue however mundane is important to them. I belong to a condo-like association and the stupidity runs rich and deep. My association was ripped off for almost $100k by crooked contractors, but the board refused to call in the sheriff's office. I ran for a board seat using this as an issue. The pop-up ad people voted against me and I lost. Sob!
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