Do not go by the handshake or verbal agreement type thing.

Vacancy, capex and repair budgets are significantly lower in condos than other types of properties.

Eventually it requires a membership but they have a sub-group of some type every week that is included and they also bring guest speakers like Ron LeGrand, etc. for weekend seminars.

Would be nice to know in order to figure in to having to possibly do this some day.I'm still just looking for properties, but this type of thing would be exactly the type of thing to make me nervous about the process.

Can it be any local contractor or should I hire someone that advertises this type of thing?

It also depends on what type of heating system you have.

In the MLS you will find every type of description of houses, for example; estate, foreclosed, vacant, motivated seller, institutional seller, REO, bank-owned, divorce forces sale, etc..  

So you are way ahead of the curve if you are already thinking like this and asking these type of questions.

Set up a keyword search for Tampa and Florida and any of your particular types of investing or other interests.  

They recommended the SmartJack system.My impression is that a full re-pour would be quite expensive - I'd be curious to hear what types of quotes you get for this.