San Fernando Valley

CONDO CONTROVERSY: Attorneys for two groups of developers being sued over allegedly selling poorly built condos acknowledged that there are structural problems at the Glendale complex but attempted to shift the blame in their opening statements Tuesday.

Joe Burrow, attorney for Glen Mont Investments and Sepian Construction, which originally developed and built the condos, said his clients sold the unfinished complex to a “group of sophisticated professionals” from New York “who had every opportunity to know what they were buying.”

But Thomas Dowling, attorney for the group of real estate investors from New York and their California contact man, said the major problems surfaced only after the 95-unit complex was occupied in 1989.

“They didn’t create the problems,” Dowling said of his clients. “They tried to fix them.”