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More than three months after a judge ordered the Boca View Condominium Association to let a unit owner or her representative inspect the property’s financial records, the condo board still hasn’t opened its books and instead is challenging the ruling.
A Boca View Condominium owner seeking access to the association's financial records won at trial on Tuesday when a judge shot down nearly all of the arguments raised by the governing board and its attorneys from the Becker law firm.
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Boca View Condominium Association, the board backed by the powerful Becker law firm, is defending its decision to deny a unit owner's authorized representative access to financial records in an ongoing trial in Palm Beach County. Boca View recently secured a $395,554 judgment against a unit owner who asked to inspect its records in 2016.
A rapacious law firm and a tyrannical condo board president bankrupt a woman who wanted to see board financial records, as is her right under law. The Legislature must stop this madness.
A reader finds it "frightening" that a condo unit owner gets stuck with a $400,000 legal bill simply for seeking condo association records.