Month: July 2015

It’s the end of the summer.  Millions of kids across our state have to suck it up and return to school.  And if the kids have to endure school for the next ten months, all of you can endure a measly three hours.  I’m talking of course about Condo and HOA Board Certification. There’s a…

I think most lawyers would agree that some cases are simply more interesting than others.  Over the last few weeks I have had the privilege of working on one of those interesting cases.  It involves an attempted recall of two directors who were on the Board of a Hollywood Condominium association.  I represented the owners…

Although some Board members and unit owners often object, Florida community association law   is clear, unit owners have the right to video tape meetings.     For condominiums:   FLORIDA STATUTE 718.112(2)(C) states: Board of administration meetings.—Meetings of the board of administration at which a quorum of the members is present are open to…

For obvious reasons, this may be the toughest column I ever wrote.  In fact, I’m not going to say much at all, as I want you guys to tell me the factors that you consider important when deciding to hire counsel for the association. I’ll tell you one thing that I’m not thrilled with.  Association…

Our firm won an interesting HOA election case two weeks ago in arbitration before the DBPR.  I think the case makes for some good precedent here in Florida and deals with an issue that has been plaguing HOAs for all eternity.   As we know, each and every year,  we get complaints from people that…

We already blogged about a new law that will bring further chaos and confusion to the association election process, and that is the law that now allows voting via the internet if a plethora of conditions are met.  The Florida Legislature passed some other association laws as well this year.  Let’s see what they say…

On Friday, I had the pleasure of being invited to attend a meeting of many representatives from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, including arbitrators and the Condominium Ombudsman. The purpose of the meeting was to hear from the public in regards to the new condominium statute that would allow Boards of Directors to…

When the foreclosure crisis was at its peak, developers were complaining that they were in effect stuck with numerous condominium projects that simply weren’t selling.  They wanted the ability to at least try and save the project by converting it into a rental community instead of being forced to maintain it as a condominium. The…