Harold J. Poltrock, Attorney at Law

I live in a condominium Community Access Unlimited ("CAU") manages. In 2019, we had a fire that destroyed 2/3 of the property. Shortly after the fire, CAU higher ups, including Sidney Blanchard, met with the unit owners to discuss how we would rebuild after the fire and Poltrock was there as counsel. They suggested a contractor they'd used the year prior when they had a serious fire in another property. They did not suggest any other contractors and we as unit owner did not feel empowered to vet other options to take on such a large job nor were we given much time to try to. Fast forward to 2021, the contractors walked off the job then sent the HOA, consisting of unit owners who had no real say in their hiring, a demand letter for over $250k claiming that they were never paid an agreed to increase. Poltrock did not even attempt to help us get to the bottom of this issue even though he was involved directly in communications with the contractors around the time they requested this increase. The HOA found our own counsel who realized that the increase was granted and paid out by our insurance, leading us to believe there might be some insurance fraud happening behind the scenes with the contractor, CAU, and other parties who were aware of these communications while we as unit owners were in the dark. It would have saved us a world of trouble if Poltrock helped us realize this sooner since he was the attorney involved at the time the contractor was hired and at the time they requested the increase from our insurance. Instead he simply backed away, probably to protect himself, leaving completely innocent unit owners on their own to dispute this demand by the contractor.