A former South Florida condo property manager is accused of a forgery scheme that stole nearly $1 million from a Pembroke Pines condominium association, becoming the latest of three felony criminal cases pending against him.
Michael Christopher Curtis, owner of the company BDM Property Management, is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a settlement agreement issued to the Fairways of Sunrise, misappropriating funds of the Colonies Two Condo Association in Lauderdale Lakes and, in a new case filed in Broward County court Jan. 14, forging signatures on hundreds of checks pertaining to the Windmill Lakes Homeowners Association in Pembroke Pines beginning in 2021, court records show.
Curtis, 38, of Pompano Beach, surrendered himself to the Broward County jail on Jan. 17 on an arrest warrant stemming from the most recent Pembroke Pines investigation and was released after posting bail.
Pembroke Pines Police led a years-long investigation into Curtis after receiving complaints from homeowners, finding “property management irregularities, lapsed insurance coverage, missing or improper board elections, and a forgery scheme involving stolen association funds,” the agency said in a news release Tuesday. Since at least 2021, Curtis allegedly forged signatures on more than 350 checks and legal documents pertaining to the homeowners association, the police department said.
The signatures of two former board members appeared on nearly $600,000 worth of checks made out to Curtis’s companies, including BDM Property Management, Private Parking Managers, Inc. and All Florida Rental Management, according to a probable cause affidavit. Both former members told detectives the signatures were not theirs. Their signatures were also included on insurance settlement documents that resulted in payment to BDM Property Management, which the two former board members told detectives they did not sign, the affidavit said.
Detectives said Curtis “fabricated” management fees of $46,000 related to an insurance payment meant for hurricane disaster relief, a total beyond his eligible payment as a management fee, the police department said in the news release.
The police department said detectives believe “other unauthorized payments” Curtis allegedly obtained could total more than $1 million. The news release did not provide further information.
The Pembroke Pines arrest is a business dispute “being pushed as a criminal matter,” Curtis’s defense attorney Elias Hilal said in a statement to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
“This is Mr. Curtis’s third arrest tied to the same personal vendettas and the same underlying dispute,” Hilal said. “He unequivocally denies wrongdoing, and we will be litigating aggressively to defend his name. When the evidence is laid out, the allegations won’t hold.”
Curtis was first accused in January 2025 of grand theft and perjury in an official proceeding stemming from an investigation by Sunrise Police. Hurricane Irma in 2017 damaged the Fairways of Sunrise condos, and after years of litigation, a settlement was reached between the association and Rockhill Insurance Company in 2020, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Curtis signed the settlement, according to the affidavit, which indicated the condo would receive $444,750.59 after paying legal fees and other vendors. Days after the settlement was deposited to the condo’s bank account, Curtis’s BDM Property Management allegedly received an unauthorized check from the Fairways of Sunrise totaling $439,000.
“In the years following this settlement, Michael Curtis told the Homeowners Association multiple times that the litigation was dismissed or ‘thrown out,’” the affidavit said, including once at a June 2021 meeting that was recorded on video.
“During this meeting, Michael Curtis maintained that the lawyer for the insurance company found a loophole that got the whole case thrown out,” the affidavit said.
The perjury charge he faces in the criminal case stems from sworn testimony Curtis gave during civil proceedings in 2022 related to the same settlement, according to the affidavit.
In the civil lawsuit related to the same settlement and allegations, a jury returned a verdict in favor of Curtis’s BDM Property Management and against the condo in October 2025, finding the company did not negligently breach any of its fiduciary duties, Broward County court records show.
During the trial in the civil matter, Curtis testified that the money his company received was owed to him for the hours of work facilitating the settlement, WTVJ-Ch. 6 reported at the time.
Curtis has pleaded not guilty to all charges in the pending criminal case pertaining to the Fairways of Sunrise.
In December, Curtis was charged with one count of grand theft in the first degree related to his management of Colonies Two in Lauderdale Lakes in which it was alleged, in part, that Curtis was overpaid by more than $65,000 after an insurance settlement in 2020 and cashed a check for more than $87,000 from the condo’s bank account that he was not owed, according to the probable cause affidavit. He has pleaded not guilty.
Curtis’s arraignment in the Pembroke Pines case is scheduled for Feb. 10.
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation previously revoked Curtis’s Community Association Manager license, but it is unclear when.
