My question is: how did any sale of units get approved between home inspectors, lenders, appraiser, insurers, or other third parties having this information who would participate in a transaction? The condo association knew about this report since 2018, and would’ve been required by Florida law (Section 503(2) of Florida’s Condominium Act) to disclose to any buyers.
http://www.wgmorrislaw.com/Marco-Island-Law-Blog/2020/August...
> Just one month after an engineering report warned of "major structural damage" that required immediate repair, a Surfside, Fla. official assured residents of Chaplain Towers South that their building was sound.
> The engineering report was dated Oct. 8, 2018. At a Nov. 15 board meeting of the Champlain Tower South Condominium Association, a building official from the town of Surfside, Ross Prieto, appeared to discuss that report. "Structural engineer report was reviewed by Mr. Prieto," the meeting minutes say. "It appears the building is in very good shape."
> The inspector's comments directly conflicted with an engineering report from five weeks earlier, which warned that failed waterproofing in a concrete structural slab needed to be replaced "in the near future."
I know nothing about it, but I used to park in a garage for work, where they would periodically remove some concrete, exposing rebar, involving a huge amount of noise and dust, and I wondered why.
I assumed they were checking structural integrity, but it always seemed hard for me to conceptualize how you could take concrete out and then patch it up without somehow damaging the relationship with the rebar going through it.
(In case the content is behind the Miami Herald’s paywall.)
