‘It’s insane’: Lawyers are ‘making money’ and residents losing it in a 5-year-long legal battle between one Florida HOA and a frustrated resident

As if it weren’t enough to have to deal with Florida’s hurricanes, residents of Stonebriar in Pinellas County are swept up in a storm of lawsuits between their homeowners association and resident John Siamas.

And just like homeowners end up paying for storm damage, they’re on the hook for the costs involved in this war of whirling words

It reached a head this summer, when the HOA levied an $82,000 special assessment — which works out to $1,400 per household — to cover the legal costs…

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