Owners of a condo complex in Langley say they may lose their homes over a multi-million dollar repair bill.

Mistakes made in a previous repair had to be re-done, and the delay allowed construction costs to rise -- so now each owner faces a bill of up to $70,000 each.

"We don't have the money to do this. We're really stuck right now," said one owner, Luke Tutty.

Tutty and his wife Sheila moved in a few years ago, and since had two more children. They moved into the condo to save money, and aren't sure how they're going to pay.

"We wake up in the morning wondering if we're going to have a home in six months," said Sheila. "We don't know how we're going to do it."

Poor construction in the leaky condo era allowed water to seep into the structure of the building.

Some of the decks are so unstable that residents are told to stay off them.

Four years ago, the strata council had a plan to fix the building for only $2,500 per owner per year.

The plan went ahead for three years -- but when the work by the contractor was inspected, it turned out the repairs weren't being done right.

"They should have had an engineer in place to review the work," said the new property manager, Jim Uswak.

"It would have been caught immediately and not allowed to run for three years without being inspected by anybody," he said.

Construction costs rose enormously during that time, and now that they're picking up the pieces.

Construction delays can cause huge problems for condo owners, said Tony Gioventu of the Condominium Home Owners Association.

"It's like the Richter Scale," he said. "If you haven't maintained the building, every year you leave it longer it's going to cost exponentially that much more money."

The pressure has some owners turning on each other. Just Saturday night, the police had to be called because of an altercation between owners, said Luke Tutty.

Owners have to have the cash by Christmas -- although the Tutties are not sure how they're going to come up with it.

"It's just a really tough time for people in this building," said Luke Tutty.