Month: April 2019

I have always said that there is nothing worse than a Board member simply taking up a chair at Board meetings and refusing to participate or take a position on anything.  They volunteered for the title but refuse to do much more than come to the occasional meeting.  They won’t get bids, meet with contractors,…

I previously wrote a column about how difficult it is to be a community association manager.  The amount of hats that a community association manager often has to wear is amazing. Simultaneously, he or she needs to serve as the number cruncher, interior designer, police man, collection agency, master of ceremonies, complaint department, tech expert…

Over the years there has been a rise in management companies that want to do more than just manage the accounting and official records of the association.  I think many people in the industry would tell you that there isn’t that much money to be made from an association if the management company only handles…

Even though I just completed a difficult stretch of teaching lots of board certification classes all over the state, I always like to think of ways to improve the seminar and keep attendees entertained on one hand, but promote just how serious the topic is on the other.  While I take my responsibility to teach…

The 2019 session of The Florida Legislature is quickly drawing to a close.  So, what new laws can we expect to see that will have an impact on our community associations?  Here are a few:   Pools serving condos, co-ops and HOAs with less than 32 homes would be exempt for regulation. In a condo,…

I tried to avoid posting any blog about the embarrassment that is Broward County’s election system.  I almost made it.  One interesting tid-bit from this fiasco has a unique relationship with the way we run our condo and HOA elections in this state. In condo elections and sometimes in HOA elections and in recall cases…