House Bill 1203 and SB 7046 merged to eventually create a huge bill for the protection of homeowners in HOAs. It starts by placing lots of responsibilities on community association managers. A community association manager or community association management firm that is authorized by contract to provide community association management services to a homeowners’ association…
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A GENERATOR BILL THAT IS LONG OVER DUE (Part 2)
Until now there was no law in our Florida HOAs that would allow a home owner to install their own electrical generator with above ground or below ground gas tanks. Here we are, living in Florida with sometimes unbearable heat and humidity, we have a large elderly population, hurricanes generally hit in the hottest parts…
HOUSE BILL 59 – PROVIDING COPIES OF THE DOCS
So The Florida Legislature is only in session for another four days. Over the next few weeks we want to educate you about the bills that passed both The Florida House and The Florida Senate. So here we go…….. Let’s start with an amendment to Florida Statute 720.303. The following is all added: (13) REQUIREMENT…
A PARKING PRIMER
So many of our condominiums were built in the days that it was basically unheard of for a family to own more than one automobile. Many homes didn’t even own one automobile. As a result, the laws were a lot different than they are today and allowed a building to be built with far less…
SO WHAT AM I LEAVING OUT
So when I wrote my blog last week asking people what their problems are, I couldn’t help but think about all of the issues that can arise in a condominium or HOA. It’s almost endless. Here’s some issues that are routinely litigated or arbitrated: faulty elections, failure to hold meetings, failure to post notices, failure…
HEY……………WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM?
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…
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…