Majority of Florida condo board quit in 2019 as squabbling residents dragged out plans for repairs

[George II]

24. By "self management" do you mean managed by owners and NOT a property manager?

Once the developer turns the association over to the residents, any association I've seen immediately hired a property management company. Regardless of the diversity of experience of the residents, there's not enough among the residents to manage all the aspects of a condominium.

As for the toxicity, all it takes is one or two of them to get elected to the board and there's big trouble, right down to making it impossible to get anything done.

It was far from luxury, but for 13 years I owned and lived in a unit in a 282 unit apartment conversion. After a year I was elected Vice President, then President for the next 11 years.

We had a Treasurer who was impossible to work with. She acted like every penny was coming out of her own pocket. Normally that is good, but she scrutinized every bill before it was paid. One month our maintenance guy's phone bill was a lot higher than what it was other months. She wanted a full accounting and explanation why. After a 30 minute discussion with the manager, finally I asked, "how much are we talking about?" Turns out the normal bill was $40, that month it was $60! He explained that he made a number of calls to buy a $500 piece of equipment, and he SAVED us more than $100. That's how bad she was. He quit after the way she treated him and eventually she resigned.

Man, this is bringing back nightmares!