Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Deerfield Beach may shut off water at condo that owes $90,000 -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

Deerfield Beach may shut off water at condo that owes $90,000 -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com: "Narrabe is one of 28 unit owners — out of 168 — in the Deerfield Palms condo association who still pay their monthly maintenance fees, which are used to pay the community's water bill.

Residents owe the city $90,000. If they don't pay $12,929 by the first week of March, the city is threatening to turn off the water. Because the community has master meters rather than individual unit gauges, the city can't separate owners who are current on their bills from delinquent customers."

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Another condo association that can't do its job, and who gets the short end of the stick? Why, the owners, of course. Who else?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Had each condo been provided an individual water meter, then each resident could pay their own water bill and the association would have been left out of it.

But then, that would have been logical, and we all know that CID housing is frequently not logical!

Anonymous said...

I just don't understand how arrangements like this could have been constructed in the first place. Could no one in the plan-approval process have foreseen that a community might have a need to meter individuals?

Anonymous said...

Actually, I wonder if this condo started its life as an apartment building. Thinking about all the apartments near me that went condo . . . we could easily see more of this sort of thing. I feel very bad for the people who did everything right and are about to have their homes rendered not just worthless, but unliveable.

Evan McKenzie said...

Beth--that's what Tyler Berding has been warning people about for years. The condo conversion mania is certain to produce numerous association collapses that will lead to massive loss of equity.