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Isn't there a law that says a lien cannot be for items that are disputed and defective?

The HOA has put a lien on my condo for items they forced me to change at my expense. I found the exact items the condo put in and their price and found that they put in the cheapest items on the market which are worth 1/10th of our original items. This was done to 4 condo owners only. The HOA & property manager went against 3 bylaws by doing this job as no vote was taken of a quorum, the items were not replaced with equal or better ones, and the association is not supposed to do anything to our condos that is not an emergency if it will cause the condo owners to have an assessment.and we had $1000 assessment. The property manager went against her word also as she wrote we would get $900 items & we would pay $450 for them. We received $200 items and we all got billed $450 each for them. You would think the PM, the board members involved, and the condo attorney were going to win a gold medal if they changed the items in our 4 condos. They used every excuse to have our items changed but the Dept. of Community Affairs got involved and found them to be wrong about the first 2 excuses. Then the condo attorney wrote to the DCA and lied in writing about the credentials of the expert who was supposed to be an engineer. That so called engineer never went to engineering school and was not an engineer.. Instead of the HOA helping to have the new items replaced with the proper ones according to our bylaws, the want to get away without doing anything and this happens easily when the PM and the HOA are together doing this conflict of interest job. Our condos are run down with the price lowered because of the cheap replacement items that lawyers made bylaws to protect the us from but our HOA & PM didn't follow any bylaws. The sad thing is that the items that didn't need to have replaced cost the association $40,000 and not the $20,000 that the contractor bid.. Because of the lien on my condo, I cannot use any of the amenities in our community and a great deal of our maintenance fee goes toward the pool, gym, clubhouse, & library. I am sure if you didn't live through what I have been put through you would never believe what has been done to me and my daughter. I questioned this PM about why she replaced a very good 10 year old sidewalk when I asked her to lift one stone that sunk in and water froze there. That question gave me my first fine after living here for 10 years. I was fined for burned out light bulbs twice and I still have that 10 yr. light bulb working today. Others here get warnings if their light bulb is burned out and I got 2 fines for good light bulbs.This PM gave me a fine for my dogs going out for 30 seconds in back of my condo because my door knob was rusted by the sprinkler hitting it. This PM makes nice doggie to other dogs here that are out without a leash but I get fined for 30 seconds. The same PM also gave me 2 fines because someone told her my dogs didn't have a leash on when they were out behind my condo. I don't believe this is even legal and the police do not fine people because others told them something...they have to catch the person doing it. Our condos are in worse condition today than before this job was done. People wanted to buy here because of the great quality items the builder used but now we have economy items that do not belong in our upscale condos. We didn't have any problems with the items that were replaced and we never complained to the HOA or PM about these items. One of the items changed was still under warranty for 9 more years. The property manager allowed the contractor to change the color on the outside of our condos so 4 of us are now a different color than the other 96 condos here. Because of the way the PM, the management company, & the board members involved handled this by lying to get it approved & many different excuses that were found to be untrue by the Dept. of Community Affairs, I believe this whole project was done for a conflict of interest. I believe any honest president of a board would not allow this to be done to 4 condo owners & make them pay $4,000 for cheap replacement items when our items were 10 times better. I am positive this lien was put on my condo to scare me into paying for it and just moving which could have been a lot easier; but I have a real passion about making this world better for our future generations and I believe there was a crime committed here to extort money by padding the bill and they needed to change those items for an excuse to pad the bill more.

Public Comments

1. at that point i would be burning down my condo and collecting the insurance money and moving on.