Owners to blame. They fought the special assessment for repairs for years. There was a petition going around to stop repairs again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/us/miami-florida-surfside-collapse.html
Quote:
Steve Rosenthal, 72, a restaurant advertising executive, went to the gym in the building nearly every day. Afterward, he would stop at the pool, where he could see a crack on a third-floor balcony that he described as “atrocious.” But he called the $135,000 assessment on his condo, a corner unit with double balconies, a “second mortgage.”
“It’s an upscale building, but it’s not the Ritz or the Four Seasons,” he said. “The people that live there aren’t Rockefellers or Rothschilds. We’re upper middle class, I guess, and a lot of us are retired.”
When a neighbor knocked on his door, 705, with a petition against the assessment, Mr. Rosenthal signed it. The first payment was due on July 1.
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Smart ones bailed out and sold last year.
IMHO the ones that signed that petition, or opposed repairs should not collect a dime.