‘This is just outrageous’: South Florida condo owners are dumping their homes after getting slapped with six-figure special assessments — and now the once-hot market is floundering

Maria Tkachun and her husband shelled out $490,000 for a seventh-floor apartment with a terrace and balcony boasting incredible views of South Florida’s Biscayne Bay in 2022.  Two years later, the pair got hit with a six-figure special assessment — a charge that condo owners and homeowners in HOA communities must pay to either finance a renovation on the property or to replenish an underfunded reserve.    Read the article…………………………….

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