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Walking along the Missouri River Trail, Jim Schaap asks what those hulking piles of poles are for.

That no one ever thought if the maintenance wasn't done on the buildings they wouldn't fall down like that but i'm sure we'll never think that again. >> listen, we don't know, right? we don't know. i think the main thing we don't know is, you know, we have the inspection and whatever people can say, looks like the medal was rusting and the concrete, you know, was damaged and all of that. but we don't know what's going on beneath the surface there if there is -- what kind of emotion there could be. you have hurricanes. you have erosion, all kinds of things happening beneath the building. that's...

16 years now? >> 16 years in may. >> you were down there when you got the april letter from the condo board talking about the damage to the building accelerating and explaining there was going to be a $15 million assessment. was it clear to you between the letter and what you seen firsthand that the building was in bad shape? what did you think? >> yeah, i really thought the building was in bad shape. new year's eve of 2018 it was brought to my attention by somebody that said it was a contractor and showed me structural cracks on my side of the building. he blamed it on the building next door ...

$15 million assessment. was it clear to you between the letter and what you had seen firsthand that the building was in bad shape? what did you think? >> yeah, i really thought the building was in bad shape. i mean, it was new year's eve of 2018 it was brought to my -- it was like attention by somebody that said he was a contractor. he showed me structural cracks on my side of the building. he blamed it on the building next door when they were putting pilings in. he showed me there was cracks on the side wall that was on the side of the pool. and he was mapping this out for me in the sand. it ...

They will look at what the condition of the pilings were in because those pilings are the legs that hold the building up and if those legs are weakened for any reason, that presents a gigantic problem and as we could see something gave way from the bottom and i think that's going to be one of the first places they're going to look. >> there was construction next door that had recently been completed. any concerns about that? >> yeah, you know, i've got concerns about everything. i mean, but you know, construction next to existing buildings is quite typical. it's not unusual. i know that the un...