Condominium Association Litigation
Condo Board Ignoring Critical Repairs or Abusing Special Assessments?
Owning a condominium offers an incredible lifestyle, but it also embeds your personal financial security within a complex corporate structure. When a Condominium Board fails to maintain shared structural assets, enforces building rules unequally, or imposes unjustified financial penalties, your real estate investment is directly threatened. Moving past frustrating association bureaucracy requires strategic legal intervention. Attorney Alan Blose delivers precise civil representation engineered to enforce corporate bylaws, challenge unlawful board actions, and protect your private property interests.
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High-Rise Governance Demands Complete Statutory Compliance
The Catastrophic Impact of Neglected Common Elements
Unresolved Condo Board Contentions Can Place Your Title At Risk
Condominium Boards in Florida wield substantial corporate authority, yet their governing power is strictly constrained by state law and their own recorded declarations. Too often, volunteer board members misinterpret their administrative oversight, imposing arbitrary rules or leveling heavy fines without proper notice. Even worse, if an association fails to maintain a shared building envelope—like a failing roof or cracked exterior stucco—slow water intrusion can rot your personal interior drywall and spark toxic mold growth.
If you push back without an attorney, a non-compliant board can place a statutory lien on your unit, which can rapidly accelerate into a foreclosure action. Waiting for an uncooperative property management company to voluntarily fix these issues only compromises your safety and drains your asset’s value.
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Declaration & Bylaw Analysis
We meticulously audit your association’s recorded Declaration of Condominium, articles of incorporation, and financial records to pinpoint clear corporate overreach or breach.
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Statutory DBPR & Mediation Filing
We draft and serve formal pre-suit mediation demands or petitions for mandatory non-binding arbitration through the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes.
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Lien Contestation & Title Defense
If the association issues an improper or mathematically flawed claim of lien against your unit, we file immediate challenges to stop their foreclosure clock and preserve your title.
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Fiduciary Breach Enforcement
When a board refuses to address structural common element failures or misallocates building reserves, Alan launches targeted lawsuits to compel full performance and recover damages.
Sophisticated High-Rise Advocacy
We Hold Managed Community Boards to Explicit Legal Standards
You should never be forced to fund a condo board's financial mismanagement or bear the cost of their building maintenance failures.
Challenging a condominium board requires looking past daily neighborhood politics and centering the dispute entirely on statutory non-compliance and structural obligations. Condo associations rely on expensive corporate defense firms, paid for by your own monthly maintenance assessments, to silence individual unit owners. Our Fort Lauderdale civil litigation team completely neutralizes this imbalance. We scrutinize association accounts, challenge invalid rules, and build airtight structural cases that board insurance carriers cannot simply dismiss. Alan Blose leverages over ten years of deep legal experience to protect the rights and property values of condo owners across Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach Counties.
What Drives Us
AMB Law Satisfied Clients Are Saying
Why Choose AMB Legal for Your Condominium Association Lawsuit?
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Unmatched Courtroom Authority
We are not plea bargain lawyers. Alan Blose is a high-stakes trial attorney who commands respect in Broward County courts and aggressively litigates to win.
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Direct Partner Representation
Your future is never handed off to a junior associate or paralegal. You receive direct, uncompromising strategic counsel from the firm’s founding partners.
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Compelling Shared Area Repairs
When an association ignores leaks in common pipes, concrete spalling on structural balconies, or roof issues that damage your interior, we litigate to force immediate structural repairs.
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Striking Down Selective Rules
If the board penalizes your property for structural adjustments, leasing choices, or pets while letting identical situations pass elsewhere in the building, we build a robust defense to defeat the action.
Many condominium owners mistakenly assume that simply raising an issue during the open forum at the next monthly board meeting or sending emails to the building manager will fix an ongoing property dispute. Unfortunately, once an association turns a file over to their dedicated collection or enforcement attorneys, verbal explanations are entirely ignored, and administrative fees begin compounding daily. Trying to resolve a structural water leak or a clouded title with an entrenched board on your own signals that they can continue to ignore your demands. Retaining an elite, highly precise civil litigation firm early gives you the structural leverage needed to halt escalating fines, preserve your unit’s equity, and force the board to respect your statutory rights.
Condominium Association Litigation
Frequently Asked Questions:
Florida Condominium Association Litigation
Can a Condominium Association foreclose on my unit over unpaid monthly fees or fines?
Yes—for unpaid assessments, but not for fines alone. Under Florida law, a condominium association may record a lien against your unit for unpaid assessments, such as monthly maintenance fees, and may foreclose on that lien if the debt remains unpaid after complying with the required statutory notice procedures. However, fines cannot become a lien against your unit and cannot, by themselves, support a foreclosure action, regardless of the amount owed. Because the foreclosure process is governed by strict statutory requirements, it is important to consult an attorney as soon as you receive a claim of lien or notice of intent to foreclose.
What qualifies as "selective enforcement" in a Florida condominium building?
Selective enforcement occurs when a condo board enforces a specific rule, restriction, or covenant against one particular unit owner while routinely ignoring identical violations committed by other residents in the building. If an owner can produce clear evidence of this unequal treatment, Florida courts will generally strike down the association’s enforcement action as arbitrary and unenforceable.
Who is responsible if a common building element leaks and damages the interior of my unit?
While you are generally responsible for your personal property, the Condominium Association is contractually and legally obligated to maintain the building’s exterior envelope and all common structural elements under the master declaration. If a leak from a common roof, exterior wall, or shared utility line damages your unit’s bare drywall or structural flooring, the association is typically responsible for the structural dry-in and repair of those core elements.
Is arbitration or mediation mandatory before filing a lawsuit against my condo board?
Sometimes. Florida law requires many condominium disputes to go through a mandatory pre-suit dispute resolution process before a lawsuit can be filed. Depending on the type of dispute, this generally means pursuing nonbinding arbitration through the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes or presuit mediation. However, not all disputes are covered, and some claims—such as those involving assessments, fiduciary duty, or title issues—are exempt. Because the requirements depend on the nature of the dispute, it is important to consult an attorney before filing suit.
Can a condo board pass a massive special assessment without a vote from the unit owners?
The answer depends entirely on the specific wording found within your building’s original Declaration of Condominium and bylaws. While boards retain the emergency power to pass assessments for unexpected structural failures or mandatory safety hazards, massive capital improvements or luxury additions that change the common elements typically require a formal quorum and a specific majority vote from the general membership.
How Do I Schedule A Consultation?
Scheduling a consultation with AMB Law is easy. Simply give us a call at (954) 960 – 4413 to speak with our friendly staff and arrange a convenient time for you -or- schedule an online consultation.
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We understand the fear, isolation, and uncertainty you are feeling right now. But you do not have to face the Florida justice system alone. Your consultation with AMB Legal is completely confidential and free of judgment. Speak directly with Elena and Alan, tell us exactly what happened, and let us show you how we are going to protect your future.
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