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PEMBROKE PINES, FLA. (WSVN) – With condominiums that are crumbling from the inside out, residents are now fearful that they will be kicked out due to the unsafe conditions.
Residents at the Heron Pond Condo’s in Pembroke Pines came home to an alarming notice on their doors, Thursday night.
City officials have deemed every unit there an unsafe building, and also said that all balconies are unsafe.
“I’m terrified that at any given moment my apartment is going to fall through,” a resident said.
A single mother of three, who lives here, but wanted to remain anonymous, said it has gotten worse every year.
“The rent continues to go up and repairs don’t ever get made,” the mother said.
Her neighbor, who also fears retaliation, agrees.
“This is unsafe, I have kids here,” the neighbor said. “My kids like to sit on the balcony and get some fresh air. Imagine if something happened on our balcony and it fell through to the bottom floor. We’d all be talking a different story.”
Nearly every building has damage.
Balconies are held up with jacks. So are other areas where the wood is rotting away.
Many condos have cracks or large holes.
It was enough for the property manager to send an email Thursday night, which read as follows, “Dear residents, effective immediately, no one can go on the balcony for safety reasons until further notice.”
But residents may soon not even be allowed inside their homes because the city of Pembroke Pines said, “Property management for Heron Pond has been given 48 hours to provide a certified engineering report that supports allowing residents to remain in their occupancies until repairs are completed.”
Finding a firm to sign off on this might be difficult.
7News stopped by the office to see if they had any advice for residents, but no one answered the door.
Meanwhile, those who live here are worried.
“Honestly looking around, it doesn’t look like it’s salvageable,” the mother said.
Residents are concerned that in less than 48 hours, they may not have access to their homes.
“I don’t really feel confident in what’s going to happen because we don’t have money to just up and leave,” a resident said.
The 48 hour notices expires sometime Saturday evening.
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