Bought condo in 2004 in Hartfod Ct. Paid condo fees to a Mrs. Black at a Portland Ct. Address.
Mrs. Black became sick (unbeknownced to myself) her son was paying bills etc. When he started questioning payouts, that job was taken away from him.
Shellie Parker, whose mother owns two of the 16 units, appointed herself treasurer, her father, the groundskeeper and two more unit owners secretary and vice-president. Condo fees were to be sent to her. (Ms. Parker)
No notice was sent to myself. Few of the units are owner occupied. I never recieved an address to send fees to. The first mail I recieved was from the att. Office asking me to pay fees to their office.
Which I did. With one payment left, we had a "meeting" but the "board" brougt in an "expert" with renovation plans. They dodged the bullit then. I finally met Shellie Parker at this meeting.
My last payment was late to the lawyer. Foreclosure was the next step. Long story short, this lawyer harrassed me, ruined my summer, my Christmas and so on until I had my vehicle reposessed. Paid $6000 worth of fees to this Att. A mortgage co. I recently spoke to told me I was never in foreclosure, but when I tried to refinance to pay off the lawyer, Ms. Parker told them I was in foreclosure and they dropped me like a hot potato.
I'm the single mom of a single mom with an autistic son. School was interrupted for him. No way to get him there, too late in school year to get him on the bus. Routine is everything to a kid with autism. It really set him back.
I called lawyers, the Attn. General's office. All told me that Condo Boards have all this power, they were entities unto themselves etc., do what they want.
These people were never voted in, no proof for anybody that they were legit, but Attn. Perlstein represented them against me. He was even quoted in the Hartford Courant saying that people are ignorant and allow themselves to be riped off by Condo Boards, in a follow up column with The "watchdog" George Gombossy. Look it up.
This "Board" was trying to get a monopoly on the units here. They owned four, among them. Shellies mother sold Shellie one of her units when the s—t was gettin' thick around here, for $1. I have a 2-bedroom, more % points when voting. They wanted mine badly. They harrassed me all kinds of ways.
There's more to this. Like how we finally got them out, but they went and got a managment co. Before the meeting to vote them out. I paid for a petition to get them out of office. Management co. Got the books. They nearly doubled the fees, to make up for what they've ben stealing from us before they got the management co.
I have a budget they came up with, when hard pressed, and they were paying themselves monthly for all kinds of things tha weren't being done. Condo by-laws, which I didn't get at my closing, state no monetary rewards for serving on the board.
Is there any recourse for me???
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