Ft Lauderdale here.... No, they don't need any work on them. . that was just a crack regarding my recent contractor nightmare. It was from the settlement I got that I purchased these two. So, sort of an inside joke.
They were $51K a piece after taxes. 4 miles from the beach. Very nice.
In comparsion, the two condos I bought when I first moved here 2.5 years ago, they were $60K a piece and needed work. This is when the market was kind of weak, before the real estate boom. The only reason they were more expensive than these was because they are on the Intercoastal. I combined those two units into one large unit. If I had bought these two condos (recent ones) back then.. I would have paid about $29K for them. So they have gone up despite a weak economy.