Thank you for response. Settlement specified only that I would be paid $30,800, out of which I had to pay about $11,000.00 to take out flooring and inadequate sound proofing installed in unit above me and to install better grade flooring and improved sound proofing limiting sound transmission and continuing diminution of value to my property due to excess sound transmission resulting from change to hard surface flooring without prior required notice to me and the remainder for general damages for loss of use and quiet enjoyment for two years since installation without prior notice to me. In my mind I agreed to settlement because it remedied problem reducing sound transmission, and general damages covered what it had cost me to mostly get back to where I had been before as to level of sound transmission which was about $2000.000 in out of pocket expert fees, court costs and legal fees, with a little (almost nothing for loss of quiet enjoyment) while sound impacts continued until floor and sound proofing replacement. I was not looking to get rich only to be returned to status quo before Rules and Regulations of HOA were breached by changing flooring in upper unity without prior notice to me. Had I been given appropriate notice I would have reviewed proposed changes and insisted upon appropriate sound proofing or would have gone to court to seek a restraining order preventing Board Approval but that was not possible as I did not recieive required advance notice.
I will just wait to late February to see if I get any 1099 from settling parties’ insurance companies but if I do will be seeking Turbo Tax expert help in filing necessary forms so as not to be taxed on recovery which would add insult to past injury.
