Frequently Asked Questions

At Milestone Inspections, we pride ourselves on assisting HOAs and Condominium owners to gather information about professional services providers and structural repair/restoration contractors, all licensed by the State of Florida,  that will be needed to diligently evaluate and eventually contract their chosen firms and/or independent professional(s) to successfully perform the multi-disciplinary works involved in generating Structural Integrity Reports(SIRs) and Structural Reserve Studies (SRS) to meet the requirements of the Milestone Inspection Law.  To the extent feasible, our primary goal is to share information that we currently have and from those experiences that we will gain as the new challenges that the Milestone Inspections will most definitely bring to HOA boards and condominium owners who reside in structures three stories of taller throughout the state of Florida. 

In developing the latest bill (SB-154, a.k.a. "The Glitch Bill"), which underpins the Milestone Inspection Law, the Florida Senate and our governor (Ron DeSantis) wisely recognized that, although both types of reports (SIRs Phases I and II)  and the "Structural Integrity Reserve Study," it is unusual to find a single company or individual capable of possessing or combining in-house all of multi-disciplinary the credentials and skills that are needed to fulfill the requirements of the investigations, analysis, and subsequent structural repairs that established by the new law.  Consequently, the various firms and disciplines that will be serving the HOAs will not only need to be a team with employees from a single company but more of a consortium of firms or individual registered/credentialed professionals, all managed by the Professional Engineer (P.E.) of Architect of Record for the investigations and studies, who will eventually both need to sign and seal the various reports and to endorse that the needed repairs and contingencies have been performed to those standards required by the Florida Building Code and the consent of local governmental authorities. 

The timeline for each project depends on its scope and complexity. However, the advice that we've heard by listening to multiple warnings from experienced lawyers and engineers is for HOA board members to begin assembling the right team to prepare to perform all of the work that lies ahead efficiently and within a carefully managed budget to deliver high-quality results as quickly as possible and that will meet the requirements set by the State and the local governmental building authorities.