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Miami, FL, United States, 11/06/2007 - A book project, focusing on an inside look at the other side of condominium living and revealing there's more, much more, to condo and condo-hotel ownership, will document activities unknown to the majority of condo buyers.
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Grand Lifestyle Publisher is documenting the exploitation of condominium owners by conscienceless developers plying their trade as real estate promoters and condominium association overlords with the results to be published in a book titled "Condo*monium — Diary of a Condo Dweller".
The book project, focusing on an inside look at the other side of condominium living and revealing there's more, much more, to condo and condo-hotel ownership, will document activities unknown to the majority of condo buyers. The book includes numerous real-life episodes, including those at GrandLifestyle.com.
The recent announcement by the Hilton Hotels Corporation of the addition of a condominium hotel, the Bentley Beach Hotel — now known as the Hilton Bentley Miami/South Beach — on world-renowned South Beach, to its franchise list adds special emphasis to the plight of condo-hotel unit owners. Though Hilton tags the Miami Beach venue as the combination of "international decadence of South Beach with a refreshing sense of chill," Hilton management teamed up with those who have absolute control over the Bentley hotel complex and its condo-hotel unit owners and plays ostrich when the abuses of the individual condo-hotel room owners are brought to their attention.
Condo*monium tells true stories of the tumultuous life in a multi-use condominium complex, including condo hotels, and urges the reader to heed the caveat emptor warning as part of a search for a condo home of one’s dreams or a rewarding investment which also serves as a vacation retreat.
The author, Dr. Heinz Dinter, explains the purpose of the book: “Someone’s first-hand experience is always a useful guide and the book’s intent is to be such a guide. It’s for your peace of mind.”
As a condo dweller, Dr. Dinter shared his research with fellow condo dwellers in newsletters and other writings, uncovered the successor developer’s ironclad ever-lasting control over the unit owners and money-exacting abuses, and as a result suffered the ire of those he exposed for their wrongdoings.
The recent AARP acknowledgement that problems exist in condominiums with homeowner associations and asking state legislatures to pass laws protecting owners from abusive boards is a significant step toward protecting condo dwellers. The 10-point bill of rights to protect owners constitutes a major contribution by the AARP to assure the peace of mind of homeowners.
“This is very good news,” said Florida state representative Julio Robaina, R-Miami. With 2.7 million AARP members in Florida, legislators will have to pay attention, the champion of unit owners said. “By 2010, 40 percent of the population of Florida will live in a condo or homeowner association environment,” forecasts Robaina, who also served as committee chairman of the Florida House Select Committee on Condominium Association Governance. “This isn’t small potatoes.”
The AARP’s efforts, however, do not directly address the exploitive relationships created by developers who are exacting unearned tributes from condo homeowners and condo-hotel unit owners.
Dinter explains, "It is sad to observe that the innocent victims fall for the big lie and raise their shield of privacy with apathy — they simply don’t want to get involved and accept the price of being ruthlessly sucked dry by the mistletoe — being offered a kiss while feeding the parasite. It’s cheaper, they feel, to be exploited by lawless evildoers than to stand up and drive the predators out of their homes and condo-hotel properties."
Legendary Miami developer Tibor Hollo described his vision in 1988: “It was the developer’s task to recreate urbia. Not only Gropian (Bauhaus) buildings, office buildings, but also endowing those buildings with more than just one cycle of life working here.” He began to build in the late sixties what he called multi-use buildings. “And it started to emerge what I thought was the prototype of tomorrow,” he explained.
“I think this will be an acceptable lifestyle for this generation and the generation to come,” the visionary developer philosophized.
A 24-page booklet, "CONDO SERFS", a sequel of booklets focusing on the exploitation of condominium dwellers, is available free of charge at GrandLifestyle.com. Dr. Dinter urges those with similar experiences to contact him for possible inclusion in a future Condo*monium sequel.
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