An Orlando homeowner was told to pay more than $13,000 for a new roof he believed was perfectly fine. Rather than accept the bill, he started digging into his homeowners association’s finances. What he found raised serious questions about how a $2.1 million roofing project had been approved.
Kenneth Yuret has lived at Vistas at Phillips Commons for nearly 20 years. He expected his roof to last several more years, but the HOA had other plans for the 160-unit townhome community in Florida’s Dr. Phillips neighborhood.
Each homeowner faced a special assessment of $13,157.73 to cover the work. With that much money at stake, residents showed up for a June meeting to discuss the project and the contractor who would handle it…