After doing this for 22 years now, I don’t get surprised that often any longer by anything that takes place in the world of condos and HOAs. This week however, I was quite surprised. Twice in the same week, community association managers brought it to my attention that companies that do business in South Florida…
Month: September 2014
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SAFE
It appears as if the foreclosure crisis is coming to a close. You made it through. You survived. You were one of the few that paid the mortgage payments each month, paid your taxes, paid your assessments, paid your insurance and you were nothing short of a model unit owner. Sorry…….you still have to go.…
IS A C.A.M. MANDATORY?
The other day on the show, we spoke about a President of an association who is in trouble because he used community association funds to pay himself for doing services that would normally be performed by a licensed community association manager. So, you might ask, does that mean all community associations must hire a community…
BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY
If you listened to the show last week, you know that my wife and I dodged a huge bullet. Our children were swimming in our pool and as they were swimming toward the deep end, they began yelling at each other that they both felt like they were getting zapped with electricity. They immediately got…
IS ASSOCIATION CRIME ON THE RISE?
Many of you heard the Condo Craze show a few weeks ago concerning the Mainlands VII HOA in Tamarac, where a President was arrested for stealing over $180,000.00 from her association. Earlier in the week, I appeared on the local news regarding yet another President allegedly taking tens of thousands of dollars for management fees,…