Buckley Towers Condo Association incompetence and ineptitude a must... North Miami Beach, Florida

All of it is true-  The Buckley Towers is one of the most incompetent run condos in all of Miami - I have a dear friend who lives there and I dred every time I visit him - First of all it's true they tow cars all of the time for not paying maitenance - This happened to my friend - In fact it was on the news.  Second, the condo has absolutely no or very limited parking for guests - I was towed from there after visiting only 2 hours - In as far as the condition of the building.  Well it's horrendous to say the least - I have been visiting there for over 10 years and I can say for the last 6 years the building has been under construction - Nobody is allowed to use their balaconies because of the repairs.  Nobody has been able to use their balcony for over 4 years -  I feel so sorry for my friend because he is unable to sell the apartement because of this and the apartment value is nothing-  He paid 65 thousand for his place and he can't even get 30 thousand for it - The building are are painted a hodge podge of colors because they have not paid their contractors so the work is not getting completed and every balacony is boarded up.  This has been this way for over four years -  Imagine never being to use your balcony.  From what I understand, they building finally got the insurance money from hurricane wilma and according to my friend the money was mismanaged and now they have nothing.  The owners are irrate and refuse to pay maintenance because doing so is useless.  And now my friend tells me the building trying to get yet another loan to finish the repairs - I think they only answer for this building is to go into receivership - There is no help for this building.  And my poor friend's apartment is worth nothing. 

Hello! I am an agent and looking for apartment for my friends. Is everything still so bad there? I was told that my client have to pay 3000$ at closing for an assesement. I am new at real estate and really want to help my friends. So shoud we run away from this property? 

Thank you very much! 

Dear sir,

I am a licensed CAM in the state of Florida and manage a large property in Boca Raton. Just to clarify one point , your  Board can not foreclose on a property, only the bank can do that. Your board can place a lien on the property for unpaid assessments and it sounds to me as if they have done so. Due to a backlog of foreclosures in the Florida courts and because banks are hesitant to foreclose and then become responsible for assessments its understandable that units are not foreclosed on promptly.

Many of the other activities you have diescrbed are highly illegal (if true) and I would suggest you report them to the the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes.

Sir, maybe you ought to start teaching being that you know so much...

I was told by my bank that I had that score. I had no clue how high it went, all I know is that mine was at the top. The residents themselves were filing for bankruptcy/ foreclosure. To this day the board of directors have not foreclosed on any unit in the buildings.

When you lie about the easily verifiable..it puts the rest of your report into serious question.

I've lived in this country for 20 years, worked hard from day 1. Bought an apartment, worked more, bought a bigger one, had an 870 FICO credit....today I have nothing,zero, nada.
- The maximum FICO Score is 850 and that would be almost impossible to hit.  So you can not have a score 20 points greater than the maximum. 

so they kept raising the fees and assessing residents in the worst recession in decades instead of trying to collect from the ones that did not pay.  This caused a lot of people to go into foreclosure/bankruptcy(myself included...it also cost me my marriage).
- You just contradicted yourself again.  Since they could not collect from the people they filed foreclosure papers on them...that sure sounds like they were trying to collect.