An independent forensic review of 175 East Delaware Place HOA concludes that owners have not consistently received accurate, decision-useful information about the buildingās true financial condition and longāterm risks. Drawing on more than a decade of the Associationās own financial statements, audits, reserve studies, tax returns, and board records, the analysis identifies audit presentations that understated reserve and capital obligations, serious auditor-independence and audit-quality concerns, and federal and state tax filings that, in the authorās opinion, misapplied key community-association tax rules and understated taxable income. The letter also documents how unreconciled management-company financial statements were downplayed, why the midācontract termination of the Associationās auditor is significant, and what these findings mean for roughly 700 owners in terms of financial, market, and governance risk ā along with concrete steps owners can take now.
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