Condominium Association responsible for heavy rain damage?

[Jeremiah Dye]

I am on my Condo association board and over the weekend we had heavy rains which caused flash flooding here in Colorado Springs. A condo homeowner got some water into her unit and wants the association to pay to clean it up. I’m new at this, but I don’t think flooding/ heavy rains is the association’s liability. Unless one of our gutters was aiming directly at the front door( which it isn’t). Has anyone ran into this before and can give feedback? I’m afraid if we are nice and do this for them, then it’s what we do and have to do it for everyone. I do think the association can act prudently and start a project to ensure rain water runs off and this doesn’t occur again though.

[Jeremiah Dye]

@John Mocker the board just had a meeting, the president went forward with having Servpro to dry out the units (4 total) and told the owners the association would pay to have the engineered laminate flooring replaced. And discussed what to do regarding not having this happen again along with the “elders of the board “ not wanting to make an insurance claim.

I was against paying for any damage because how is the association responsible for heavy rains, until I viewed the area. The units are on the bottom side of a hill with 2 other buildings above them. Those buildings have all their rain water dump down the steep hill and in front of this building. It’s not so much the association at fault, it’s the builder. And good luck on getting that.