No delay on looming deadline for condo repair fees, Florida GOP leaders decide
Florida condo owners won’t get any relief from potentially crushing association fees for future building repairs before the end of the year, Republican legislative leaders said this week.
By Dec. 31, many condominium associations must complete a reserve study to budget for those future repairs as part of condo reforms lawmakers passed to prevent another Surfside tragedy.
With that looming deadline, the governor said in recent months that he wanted lawmakers to address it before the end of the year to keep constituents from being “forced out” of their condominium who are facing steep repair costs. It now appears that’s not going to happen.
DeSantis has power to call lawmakers into session but hasn’t done it for this issue and his office has not said when it plans to address condo reforms or how. Republican legislative leaders Tuesday said the issue should wait until March, when the legislative session begins.
Sen. Nick DiCeglie, a St. Petersburg Republican who attended with some of his constituents a roundtable in Pinellas Park in September with the governor over the impending condominium fees, said he would be “very supportive” of dealing with the problem before the end of the year.
