Board is holding us personally responsible for all repairs and legal fees caused by the federal govt. [MN] [condo]
Back in February, ICE and DHS broke into my partner’s building via smashing a ground floor window and then breaking down the door to our floor, because they wanted to detain my his tenant. There is evidence on video of agents making no attempt to enter the building without force, and refused to show a warrant when asked. (Our very brave neighbour was filming them at 5am)
He wants to sell the unit, and the building management took over 2 months to order a replacement door. It’s still not installed.
Today, he received a letter from the board’s lawyers saying he would be personally responsible for all $20k in damages incurred by this incident, including the lawyer fees.
What can we……do? It seems crazy to me that this would be the direction they decided to go, but here we are. We’re also feeling completely powerless, as we’re not lawyers and it seems like the board just…..decided to do this? And that makes it okay?
Edit: The tenant is a US citizen, and DHS did not have a warrant to enter the building.