Month: March 2016

The three of us were certainly flattered by how many people read and participated in our blog discussion last week regarding The Miami Herald’s expose’ into condo fraud in South Florida.  Those of you who live in HOAs must be wondering why the findings were limited to condominiums and not expanded to include HOAs.  Are…

Over the past week or two, The Miami Herald has been running a few articles about wrong doing in certain condominium associations in South Florida.  The writer almost seems amazed that there are apparently ballots being cast with fake signatures and that in some condominiums voter turn-out exceeds 100%.  Now to The Miami Herald, this…

Let’s pretend it’s the night of your annual meeting.  It’s time to verify the signatures and count the ballots.  Someone reminds the attorney not to count the votes of any owners who are more than 90 days delinquent.  Are they right?  Maybe…. I would first argue that without the Kaufman or “as amended from time…

Last week we discussed how Board members can be removed from the Board for failing to pay their assessments.  We also know that unit owners can be prevented from voting for failing to pay their assessments.  They can also be banned from using portions of the common areas and can be prevented from running for…