Mr. Baltazar takes care of his wife. She suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. They are respectively 88 and 84 years old, they are retired and with the increase in insurance the association has raised them and they can barely pay.
“I have limited pension insurance and lawmakers don’t realize where we seniors live that we are limited.”
Baltazar is not an isolated case at the Summit Chase condominium complex in Fountainblue, northwest of 85th Avenue and 8th Street, there are 220 units with owners equally affected.
Georgina Romero, apartment owner for 21 years, says:
“The monthly payment we had from 148 Association and now 358 I pay for two rooms.”
Juan Gómez, a 74-year-old owner, says:
“The concern I have is that I have to go out on the streets, live on the streets.”
Olga Calderón, a resident, assures that her husband “suffers from many health problems and that the drugs are not cheap at all”.
Orestes Mesa, president of the association, assures that “the serious problem I have now is that a special contribution has been made to cover the increase in insurance, but they have already told us that in the month of August it will go up and it is another special contribution that will have to be made”.
The complaints fall on this gentleman, the president of the association who from year to year with the increase in insurance increases the contributions.
“Of the 80,000 dollars we paid, we went to pay 220,000 if we collected 50,000 a month and we have to pay that to the insurance, we lost 3 months of membership”, says Mesa.
Today we called the agent who sold the insurance to this resort which documents show has been increasing over the years and the explanation she gave us was as follows.
“We don’t set prices or policies, we try to help these owners. What I am proposing is a ceiling, that the insurance cannot increase by more than 3% if our wages do not increase, nor does this insurance.