With the 2025 hurricane season less than two months away, condominium owners are facing some hard realities about rising insurance costs and skyrocketing fees. Condo association fees have increased significantly since the condo building collapse in the Miami suburb of Surfside in June 2021.   Video news report……………………..

A condo development in West Palm Beach has been given a little more time to pay its unpaid water bill of more than $1 million dollars. Residents had been given a notice that the city would shut off the water on April 7. Green Terrace is a condo community with 87 units and apparently has […]

New state laws enacted after the Surfside condominium collapse in 2021 have created a financial crisis throughout Florida.  The USA TODAY Florida Network, which includes 19 daily newspapers throughout the state, has written extensively on the topic that has generated significant interest and concern for many condo owners in Florida.     Read the article…………………………….

Q: My Condominium Association is painting the lanais on the building and in order to do so they have to remove the hurricane shutters. The Board has said the cost of removal of the shutters and the cost to reinstall is an individual expense of each owner since not all owners have shutters. Is this […]

New state laws enacted after the Surfside condominium collapse in 2021 have created a financial crisis in Florida and Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach Post has written extensively on the topic that has generated significant interest and concern for many condo owners in South Florida. That’s why The Post will be conducting a live […]

Condo prices are plummeting across Florida as homeowners flood the market with new inventory in a last-ditch attempt to escape rising fees on their units, according to new Redfin data. Eight out of the 10 U.S. metropolitan areas with the highest share of condos sold below their original list price in February were in the […]

New surveillance video showed the moment rainwater started flooding an elevator at Vendome Place and the heroic actions of one man inside. Rick Sardana was heading down the rear elevator to move his sports car from the on-site parking to protect it from the heavy rain that fell across South Florida. He was riding the […]

Golf balls continue to fly off course and into a South Florida condo complex. Last year, the mayor promised to fix the problem after a man was hit and injured. But nine months later, residents are still waiting. Heather Walker has the update in 7Investigates. James Grimes showed us all the golf balls he’s collected […]

The Pines Trailer Park Homeowners Association has filed a lawsuit against park own­ers Pines Park Investors LLC asking in part for an injunction against the park closure and threatened evictions. The lawsuit, filed in the 12th Judicial Circuit Court on March 28 by Sarasota-based attorney David J. Fredericks, claims that park owners failed to comply […]

Over the course of just a mile and a half, the Del Prado corridor by the Yellow Fever Creek Preserve is getting some major updates and add-ons. A new park, a new stoplight, and a proposed new water system are all possible off this stretch, and some of the people who live near it told […]

Q: Can directors of a homeowners’ association get paid for their services? As a board member, I do all the administrative tasks for free and think I should be paid for it.   Read the Q&A………………………………..

That’s what happened after residents in a Lake Worth neighborhood contacted the newsroom about a case of blight on their street – a broken-down house that had been slowly decaying before their eyes for more than a decade. Ground zero for a snake invasion. Despite constant complaints to the HOA, management, and county officials, nothing […]

A homicide at a condo complex. A slip and fall at another one. Do the owners who had nothing to do with those incidents have to pay? One South Florida man turned to Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser to find out. In the condo world, Bonaire at Woodmont is a nice place. Quiet, not […]

While the intention of HOAs is designed to maintain property values and ensure well-managed communities for the benefit of their residents, they can also become expensive and cause frustration. Recent data suggests that 70% of homeowners say if they were to buy a new home in the future, they would prefer a community without an […]

WCTV obtained water bills from Whispering Pines residents, showing they pay a Jacksonville-based company called Oates Energy, Inc. Staci Inez spoke with a representative from the company, and they emailed a statement about their services. Oates Energy wrote, “Our function is to allocate utility bills among residents, collect individual payments from those residents, and then […]

A new building safety law that was passed in the wake of the Surfside tragedy in Florida has resulted in a tremendous amount of financial pressure on condo owners. Now, one state lawmaker warns it could prompt the “next wave of homeless people,” with elderly residents living on fixed incomes at the forefront.   Read the […]

An influential group of real estate attorneys that advised Florida lawmakers after a residential tower partially collapsed in Surfside saw an opportunity to rein in condo associations, while realizing their advice would lead distressed unit owners in older buildings to sell to developers.   Read the article…………………………….

A judge has temporarily blocked a Polk County mother from parking her car at the entrance of her subdivision while dropping off and picking up her children from the school bus.  This follows a lawsuit filed against the woman, Joy Hitchcock, by her homeowners’ association, Morgan Creek Preserve Residents Association, which alleges the action violates […]

A group of residents at a Miami condo took to the streets in protest after they found out they were being asked to pay hundreds more a month for a special assessment. Consumer investigator Sasha Jones is digging into why the condo board says the assessment is needed. There were honks of support for protesters […]

Time is up for condo owners across Florida to meet safety guidelines passed in the wake of 2021’s deadly Champlain Towers collapse.  Condo associations had until Dec. 31 to inspect aging buildings and come up with a plan to save for routine maintenance.  The market took a nosedive in the lead up to that deadline […]

A group of residents at a Miami condo took to the streets in protest after they found out they were being asked to pay hundreds more a month for a special assessment. Consumer investigator Sasha Jones is digging into why the condo board says the assessment is needed. There were honks of support for protesters […]