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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……………………..

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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 […]

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Dear Eartha, I recently got an electric vehicle. I love my new car, but charging has been a challenge because I live in a condo. I want to talk to my homeowners association about getting shared chargers, but I don’t know where to start. Can you help?   Read the Q&A………………………………..

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Q. Can major landscape renovation use reserve funds when too little funds are available as a line item? Q. Should HOA boards expense directly out of reserves without establishing a maintenance budget annually?  Q. Our board believes the reserve fund is just a bank account and the required reserve study is just advisory. Therefore no […]

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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…………………………….

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The CBS12 News I-Team continues to follow Florida’s condo crisis. The laws that were passed in the name of safety following the Surfside disaster are making condo-living incredibly expensive. Now we’re learning America’s biggest mortgage firm, Fannie-Mae, has a condo black-list and its been growing in size since the reforms were enacted.      Read the […]

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The CBS12 News I-Team continues to follow Florida’s condo crisis. The laws that were passed in the name of safety following the Surfside disaster are making condo-living incredibly expensive. Now we’re learning America’s biggest mortgage firm, Fannie-Mae, has a condo black-list and its been growing in size since the reforms were enacted.    Read the article…………………………….

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Relief for many Hawaii condominium owners paying sky-high insurance premiums may be available soon under a state program.   Administrators of the state’s dormant Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund are preparing to begin offering hurricane insurance policies in June to one or more types of condo association properties.    Read the article…………………………….

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Firefighters responded to a 3-alarm condominium fire in New Hartford midday Saturday. The fire is at River Run Condos on 220 Main Street, and numerous fire units have responded, according to Jon Barbagallo with the Norfolk Fire Dept.    Read the article…………………………….

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Tensions are flaring once again between a Jersey Shore condo tower and a beachfront bar — this time, over late-night after-parties tied to one of Atlantic City’s biggest summer events.  The Ocean Club Condominium Association filed legal papers in Atlantic County Superior Court on March 28, accusing Cocorico, tropical-themed beach bar next door owned by […]

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The Hawai‘i Real Estate Commission, in partnership with the Community Associations Institute Hawai?i Chapter, will host “Condorama XIV,” a free virtual educational event on condominium ownership and management. The webinar is scheduled for Saturday, April 19, 2025, from 9 to 11 a.m.   Read the article…………………………….

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Bob Arter paused his conversation, raised his camera with purpose and pointed it at a pair of cormorant birds searching for two bright orange goldfish. As the birds emerged from the water, the 78-year-old rookie bird-watcher looked on in awe as they swallowed their lunch whole.    Read the article…………………………….

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Do you have an extra $16,000 just lying around? Well, I bet most people don’t, including the residents at Renaissance Townhomes in Henderson. They’re being told they may have to pay that and more to fix their community’s failing water system.   Read the article…………………………….

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In June, Steve Ruffner watched a demonstration where two sheds were set on fire. As a result of what he saw, people 30 miles north of San Diego are now moving into homes far less likely to burn in a wildfire. “I was shocked,” said Ruffner, who is president of KB Home Coastal, a large […]

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A secretive quasi-governmental condo blacklist is growing exponentially, making it difficult for owners in scores of troubled buildings in Miami and South Florida to sell or get loans for repairs even as their associations face a fiscal and time crunch to meet stringent new state safety regulations.    Read the article…………………………….

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It was just a few months ago when Rancho Mirage homeowners were plagued with problems — flooded sidewalks, inoperable pumps at the community lake and animal feces caked where children play. Some of those problems persist, but things have slowly improved since InMaricopa magazine’s December story highlighted the frustrations homeowners there have endured for years. […]

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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 […]

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The residents of a luxury condominium in Florida’s Palm Beach County are accusing the builder and developer of shoddy construction work on the property, which is just 7 years old.  The condo association of the VistaBlue building on Singer Island made the claims in a lawsuit now quietly working its way through the court, naming […]

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