

Condo association attorney Jose Baloyra and Dispoto’s lawyers, Janet Varnell and Brian Warnick, did not respond to phone messages and emails requesting comment. Warhaft, the condo board’s president and Florida East Coast’s chief development officer, declined comment.

Opera Tower LLC also owns the building’s commercial spaces and is managed by Jerome Hollo, executive vice president of Florida East Coast Realty, which developed the 56-story tower. The defendants are the building’s management and leasing entity Opera Tower LLC, the Opera Tower Condominium Association and condo board directors Dean Warhaft, Joseph Arthur and Michael Smith. Yet, as many as 200 unit owners would be eligible for class action status, and damages would exceed $5 million, according to the suit. The plaintiff is Joseph Dispoto, who purchased an Opera Tower one-bedroom unit in 2007. The complaint, filed in Miami federal court on June 21 and seeking class action status, is the latest legal tussle involving unauthorized rentals of 30 days or less at the 635-unit luxury tower at 1750 North Bayshore Drive in Miami’s Arts and Entertainment District.

Federal law prohibiste discrimination on the basis of race, color, religión, sex, handicap, familias status or national origin in the sale, rentas or financia of housing.Miami’s Opera Tower with Jerome Hollo (Opera Tower Leasing)įor years, the Opera Tower Condominium Association has allowed illegal short-term rentals to run rampant, causing building expenses to skyrocket and property values to crater, according to a recently filed lawsuit. The Florida Association of Realtors and its cooperating MLSs do not créate, control or review the property data displayed hernie and take no responsibility for the content of such récords. The information being provided is for consumes’ personal, non-comercial use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospectiva properties consumes may be intereses in purchasinag. No warrants, expressed or impide, are provided for the data hernie, or for their use or interpretación by the user. Information provided is thought to be reliable but is not guaranteed to be accurate you are advised to verify facts that are important to you. The data relating to real estate for sale/lease on this web site come in part from a cooperative data exchange program of the múltiple listín service (MLS) in which this real estate firm (Broker) participantes.
