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This is exactly what happened with Champlain Towers. After that assessment, they got a repair estimate and then the board and residents argued with each other a

This is exactly what happened with Champlain Towers. After that assessment, they got a repair estimate and then the board and residents argued with each other about the price of fixing it for 3 years... all the way up to the moment it collapsed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/majority-of-florida-condo-board-quit-in-2019-as-squabbling-residents-dragged-out-plans-for-repairs/2021/06/30/43592282-d98e-11eb-ae62-2d07d7df83bd_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/majority-of-fl...

atatatat 5y ago
Without opening story...why would residents have anything to do with paying for maintaining the building they're a customer of?
- nvahalik 5y ago
  As another person mentioned, because the condo owners are all collectively responsible for the maintenance. I currently serve as the president of an HOA. We've needed new roofs for years. We got bids, but by the time that the HOA could meet, the bids already were too old. We voted to charge everyone based off the cost of the bids + 10%. We had owners that didn't pay or owners that paid too late. Our bids expired again and then we had some safety issues that we had to handle. So now we didn't have enough money for the roofs again, but likewise people wanted other stuff done. It took nearly 5 years for us to finally get new roofs. Covid happened and prices went up again, but thankfully we had enough to cover stuff. Actually, only some of the roofs are currently done. 6 buildings: 3 done/3 not. <50 units total. I cannot imagine how much more complicated it would be with a bunch of units.
- _1tan 5y ago
  They're probably owners, not renters.
- koolba 5y ago
  A typical condo ownership involves fractional ownership of the building with occupancy rights to a specific unit. The costs for general repair come out of a common pool of dues paid by each owner.

atatatat 5y ago

Without opening story...why would residents have anything to do with paying for maintaining the building they're a customer of?

nvahalik 5y ago
As another person mentioned, because the condo owners are all collectively responsible for the maintenance. I currently serve as the president of an HOA. We've needed new roofs for years. We got bids, but by the time that the HOA could meet, the bids already were too old. We voted to charge everyone based off the cost of the bids + 10%. We had owners that didn't pay or owners that paid too late. Our bids expired again and then we had some safety issues that we had to handle. So now we didn't have enough money for the roofs again, but likewise people wanted other stuff done. It took nearly 5 years for us to finally get new roofs. Covid happened and prices went up again, but thankfully we had enough to cover stuff. Actually, only some of the roofs are currently done. 6 buildings: 3 done/3 not. <50 units total. I cannot imagine how much more complicated it would be with a bunch of units.
_1tan 5y ago
They're probably owners, not renters.
koolba 5y ago
A typical condo ownership involves fractional ownership of the building with occupancy rights to a specific unit. The costs for general repair come out of a common pool of dues paid by each owner.