![]() Other groups recommend longer time spans between inspections. The Bar report, based on numerous public meetings with a broad cross-section of experts, including condo industry figures, managers, lawyers and engineers, recommends starting a baseline program of inspections at every Florida condo by the end of 2024, then instituting a regimen of recurring inspections every five years thereafter. In Miami-Dade, inspections ordered at older condos across the county after Surfside led to several residential high-rises being ordered vacated. Sklar and others said there is sufficient evidence beyond the possibly unique Champlain Towers South collapse of extensive deterioration and postponed maintenance at other high-rise condos to raise real concerns. According to widely quoted data, the state has about 1.5 million condo units, 60% of which - or some 912,000 units with an estimated two million occupants - are older than 30 years. Mandated inspections and disclosure could provide building officials across the state a clear picture of overall condo conditions for the first time. He did say he believes there is support for reforms. ![]() Sklar, the Bar task force chair, said legislative leaders have assigned the task of writing bills to members, though he added he doesn’t know details. No bills had been filed as of late December. Whether any of the proposed statewide reforms will become law after the legislature convenes January 11 is still unclear. (Broward County has its own 40-year inspection program and the city of Boca Raton approved a 30-year recertification program after the Surfside calamity.) Amid disputes over money and rapidly worsening structural deterioration, the condo’s board put off work under a 40-year recertification requirement by Miami-Dade County, one of only a few local authorities in Florida that mandate condo inspections. Such conflicts may have played a part in the Surfside collapse. ![]() The Bar report says that establishing clear and uniform rules and protocols for associations to follow, and providing aid to owners who can’t afford a hike in maintenance fees or assessments, would make the job of condo boards easier by solving a longstanding issue - the “inherent conflict” facing board members obligated to properly maintain buildings while also pleasing unit owners who elect them and who may be resistant to carrying the costs. ![]()
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