Fear, shock and consternation: This is how some condo owners at Collins Crossing in Carrboro feel after learning each of them must cough up a $5,400 assessment fee by early February.

One angry tenant says he can’t talk about it because he is afraid of the property’s powerful new owners. Another tenant is stunned. He missed the December homeowners association meeting, at which the Massachusetts-based owners of Collins Crossing—formerly Abbey Court—drove through a proposal to force every condo owner, many of them immigrants, to pay the fee.  Read more: