A few years ago, there was an owner in the condo where I live that didn't pay his fees, ever. The Administrator cut off services to the apartment and the deadbeat had the administrator put in jail. According to Fabio, the lawyer who advised us on the preparation of revised rules that includes the provision about cutting off services, the only way this can be done legally in the DR is by having it in the rules.
I believe it because he was the lawyer who, at that time, was representing the deadbeat and who put the then administrator in jail for cutting off the services to the apartment without having anything in the rules that permitted him to do it.
If where you live has a law that allows this, great. But this is not the case in the DR.
I agree with LatinoRican that it send a powerful message. I think it is the best thing you can do to force deadbeats to pay. At the time we had the problem with our deadbeat, the only thing we could do was take him to court. That cost money and the owners had to pay. Far better, in my opinion, is cutting off services. But just be sure you have this in the rules if you live in the DR.
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