Dispute Over Condo Association’s Financial Documents, Elections and Alleged Board Member Malfeasance Makes the Nightly News

Yet another report about an ongoing dispute involving alleged board member malfeasance at a Broward County condominium association has made the local nightly newscast on Local 10 News (WPLG, ABC). The report by the station’s Bob Norman chronicles the concerns of a number of the residents at the Summer Lake Condominium in Oakland Park over the actions of their association’s board of directors, which has been fined by the state’s Division of Condominiums for failing to hold timely elections.

In the report, the concerned residents complain to Norman that the directors have also refused to disclose the association’s financial records. They also say that former president of the association had signed off on payments in excess of $300,000 over a two-year period to a management company that was founded by his wife.

The residents claim that the former and current board presidents have used their positions on the board to facilitate their buying, renting and flipping condo units in the community using their private real estate investment company, which property records indicate has earned tens of thousands in profits from the purchase and sale of distressed units in the development. In one case, the two men orchestrated a short sale of a unit that had been deeded to Summer Lake to their own company for $83,000 and then sold it just four months later for $101,000. The concerned residents also say that they have seen the condo association’s maintenance men working in the middle of the day on units owned by the men.

Click below to view the station’s report.