You would think that words such as “leak” and “repair” are easily understood but that wasn’t the case for one particular roofer. He agreed to perform roof maintenance and repairs for a community in return for set monthly payments.

Today’s distressed real estate market does not discriminate when it comes to claiming victims. A particularly onerous situation occurs when a condominium developer becomes insolvent and is unable to pay its bills.

A high-rise condominium community attractively situated on Biscayne Bay was shut down and evacuated by emergency order of the City of Miami as a result of substantial failures in and to the structural steel members of the building.