Every week, Jan, Rafael and myself blog about the issues that affect all of you that live in community associations throughout our great state. Read in a vacuum, one would think that you would have to be nuts to want to live in one of these community associations where boards of directors have more control…
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COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MANAGERS ARE IN THE CROSSHAIRS- PART 2
As I informed you last week, Representative Vicki Lopez, Senator Jennifer Bradley and Senator Jason Pizzo have filed companion bills HB1021 and SB1178 in The Florida House of Representatives and The Florida Senate that take aim at community association managers and community association management companies. About 30 years ago I represented a condominium that…
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MANAGERS ARE IN THE CROSSHAIRS - PART 1
Representative Vicki Lopez, Senator Jennifer Bradley and Senator Jason Pizzo have filed companion bills HB1021 and SB1178. Leave no doubt, these bills take aim at community association managers and community association management companies. I will tell you that in my 32 years of practice, too many times management companies have refused to provide or return…
A GENERATOR BILL THAT IS LONG OVER DUE
I live in a great HOA. By great, I mean you would never know there was an HOA. It’s very hands off and it certainly seems like the owners in the community keep their houses well kept. One of the things I was allowed to do several years ago was install an underground 500 gallon…
THE ESTOPPEL FEE DEBATE
If you think that mandatory condo education for board members was controversial, you haven’t heard anything yet. When a unit owner wants to sell their home, the buyer wants to make sure that the seller does not owe the association money. You see, if the buyer buys the property without making sure the condo, co-op…
COULD THIS BE THE YEAR?
Let’s just say that 2024 has gotten off on the right foot. For those of you that have followed my career, you know how passionate I have been about mandatory education for condominium board members. I have drafted legislation requiring mandatory board education several times. Each time it would make it into a bill and…
CONDO CRAZE AND HOAs GETTING BIGGER AND BETTER
The Condo Craze and HOAs radio show will no longer be a radio show. After a 15 year run with 850 WFTL, it’s time to get bigger and better. Starting in 2024, the show will be moving into the 21st century and will be broadcast live on video on the Condo Craze and HOAs channel…
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO RISK NOT HAVING INSURANCE?
We all know what the cost of insurance is doing to our way of life. In most condominium associations, the cost of windstorm and peril insurance has tripled over the past few years, if not quintupled. And from what I am being told, there is no end in sight. God forbid another major storm hits…
SO WHAT CAN WE EXPECT IN 2024?
I just finished watching the meeting before The Regulated Industries Committee in The Florida Senate. The topic, Florida condominiums and The DBPR. I must say I found the meeting very interesting. The testimony of the former Florida Condominium Ombudsman, Spencer Henning, was truly compelling. He spoke of how corrupt boards who want to remain in…
THANKSGIVING: SO WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR?
Every Thanksgiving week, I basically use the same blog, and change it up with new current events. Here we go…….. This might be tough for many of you. Israel is at war with terrorists. Our own country seems right on the brink. Food prices are still high. Gasoline prices are still high. Interest rates have…