A Primer on the Miami Condominium Collapse

FreeRepublic | 6/27/2021 | TheWriterTX

[devere]

Thank you for your analysis based on your personal expertise.

[DoodleBob]

This is possibly one of the best posts I've seen in a long while.

Clear, concise, fact-filled, not prone to hyperbole. As they used to say, not a speck of cereal.

Thank you.

[Laslo Fripp]

Good information. Thanks.

How do I become a boiker inspector? 😈

[dinodino]

Thank you for posting that. I read the building inspector’s report from three years ago and it was damning, to say the least. If I were in any way involved with management of this property, I would be lawyering up.

[jimjohn]

Good Post.

Thank you.

[Renfrew]

Very good and clear write up. A lot of lawyers are going to be very busy on this.

One question I had that you might be able to answer. Many of these condo units would have been rented out by the owner. If the owner voted against spending money on repairs, and their renter was then injured or killed, will the owner be on the hook for a large settlement?

[al baby]

Looks like you had al baby write number 6

[Mr. Jeeves]

7. People blaming DeSantis are delusional.

When bad things happen, they are always the fault of the nearest white man with power. /s

[MtnClimber]

The left will try to pin this on DeSantis and probably Trump too. Baseless smear jobs is what they do.

[Mr. Mojo]

<< 7. People blaming DeSantis are delusional. >>

That’s one I haven’t seen. On this site?

[TheWriterTX]

One final word:

Depending on the condition of the building, the manager may have been working on this issue as well as triaging a bunch of other issues. Only they know how many monster projects were on their plate. Hindsight being 20/20, it is easy to say what they should have done, and it was decades of issues they were trying to repair.

[caver]

Great post!

[OldCorps]

Great report. Thanks

[TheWriterTX]

Sorry, typing on my phone. Should have done it on a larger screen.

[TheWriterTX]

Sorry for the spelling errors. Thought I caught them all.

[BikerJoe]

2. There were engineer reports the building was in trouble.

Did ANYONE have an obligation to report the problems to the city (like maybe the engineer)? I saw some report that a city inspector was on the roof of the place the day before or something. Based on that, it should've been condemned immediately.

[al baby]

no worries poking more fun at myself than you btw I have been a board member and past president of our small 44 unit complex you summed it up very well

[dynachrome]

I read somewhere that the special assessment to fix the problems could have been as much as 100 thousand per unit. Dunno if true.

[HighSierra5]

As you know,DeSantis is not to blame. Trump is! Doncha know?