I saw this as I was keeping up and watching late night news and manhunt on our cop shooting here in Daytona Beach hours before this happened.
Nothing new.... concrete spalling, very widespread problem in any coastal community, it's been going on here for decades. I could tell you stories all day long.
I saw a FB or Twitter image right off the bat on this and thought I'd saved the image, (but it's lost somewhere on my 'pooter) to post up in the Epic Whoops thread with a condo prices/sales will be falling comment.
It's already happening, several class action law firms have already filed, Surfside Realtor commented they are getting flooded with "Is my building safe" calls from recent high end buyers. Shoddy patchwork all day long around here. We just had a reopening of one of the oldest and tallest towers here from hurricane damage (2x) from what 5 years ago now. People were questioning why it was taking so long and I had to explain how it works, water get's into the building via roof damage or old non Miami Dade code windows (post Andrew), code inspectors come in and see's the water damage and revoke's the 'Human Occupancy License' due to wetness that will turn into Mold within days, everyone out whether it be a Condo or Hotel or whether you even had water damage in your unit (think lower floors). Then the whole building has to be gutted and a mold remediation done because by then the mold is everywhere, A/C off or A/C has spread it through the building. Then if it's a fairly old building it has to be brought up to current codes before the 'Human Occupancy License' can be reissued. As in the Top Of Daytona building the whole building was without a fire sprinkler system and that had to be installed for multi millions of dollars, they also even had to install Police/Fire radio repeaters in the building as the supposed whizbang cure all 800Mhz radio system (20 years old now) has many deadspots in these condo towers. Years ago I helped a friend (sub) lump sheet rock up into a condo tower that was going through hurricane damage to bring the windows/sliders brought up to Miami Dade code, just the window in the bedroom cost 5 grand, and he told me that I don't even want to know what the sliders cost. And this was a similar size 100 unit building..... Balcony repair/replacement? Been going on for decades and with the added HOA fees bankrupting many. Ain't owning a beachfront condo fun?
One of the massive riverfront condos that was built to replace the Old Historic termite ridden Ormond Hotel that suffered hurricane damage (mostly mold) turned into a massive FEMA multi-million dollar fraud case. I have no idea what the outcome of that one was other than the case is still ongoing(?).
Fun Fun Fun on the Sun/Fun Coast.
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