Month: June 2012

Ah………………..the first week of July is approaching.  Our thoughts turn to backyard bar-b-cues, baseball, fireworks and if you live in a Florida community association, lots and lots of fights over how, when and where to fly the flag.  It seems like each year we hear and read about so many battles between patriotic homeowners who…

It’s been a while since I felt strong about a particular political candidate.  The two party system has simply destroyed the opportunity for any candidate to do anything other than toe his party’s platform.  If he or she deviates from the platform, the party casts them to the wind until another robot comes along and…

As we know all too well now, it’s an election year.  The commercials and the propaganda have already started and no doubt it will get more and more annoying as November gets closer.  To get elected, candidates will be making promises by the boat load.  Indeed, on yesterday’s Condo Craze and HOAs show, Randy Johnson,…

I have often been asked if an association has the right to prevent an owner from smoking in their unit.  Certainly, all of you are aware that the association can prevent a unit owner’s behavior from becoming a nuisance or source of annoyance to other unit owners.  Every declaration contains a nuisance provision.  If the…

The Florida Condominium Act mandates that the developer provide warranties to the association regarding the common elements, even in those communities that are converted from rental housing to condominiums.  The HOA statute however never provided similar protection to homeowner associations and the law was unclear as to whether or not a developer gave an implied…