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Doral Place Pool returned after eight years

After eight years of litigation, a Doral condo complex is finally getting its pool back.

The pool in the Doral Place condominium, 5000 NW 102nd Ave., was auctioned off to Miami real estate company R-U-4 Real Inc. and For Sale By Owner Inc. in April 2003. Unpaid taxes on the property were almost $8,000 after the county seized control of the pool plus a half acre of land and sold it.

Continental Group, the management company for Doral Place, was sent notices for taxes dating back to 1998 and 1999, but the condo’s master homeowner’s association never received them. The association was unaware until a six-foot chain link fence and a “No Trespassing” sign blocked residents’ access.

Vicente Peña was president of the condo association in 2003 when residents lost their pool. Peña blames Continental.

“The negligence was their fault,” he said. “They were the ones that got us into this mess.”

Anthony Kalliche, general counsel for Continental Group said the management company doesn’t know why the last tax bill that never got to the condo’s board of directors. But Continental’s insurance company paid for the majority of legal fees for Doral Place — 90 percent according to Peña.

The association had to repay the back taxes and is now up to date, Peña says.

Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal ruled in favor of the condo in 2008, finding that the swimming pool was condominium property and should not have been sold separately. The state Supreme Court refused to hear the case a year later.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court entered judgment for the condo association in August.

“It really was just many years of a bitterly contested matter that just wouldn’t go away,” said Frank Colonnelli, a lawyer for the association. Colonnelli, of Boyd Richards Parker & Colonnelli in Miami, represented Doral Place during the eight-year tug-of-war.

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Doral Place Pool returned after eight years

Continental Group, the management company for Doral Place, was sent notices for taxes dating back to 1998 and 1999, but the condo's master homeowner's association never received them. The association was unaware until a six-foot chain link fence and a

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