Month: February 2020

One bill sailed through The Florida Legislature and waiting for a signature by Governor DeSantis.  Once signed, it becomes law effective immediately. Florida Statute 718, 719 and 720 have all been amended to include language that states that: An association may not prohibit a law enforcement officer, as defined in s. 943.10(1),who is a unit…

For a time, directors had to be careful about keeping their emotions in check while at Board meetings.  When a director said “I had enough, I quit” that actually meant they were gone.  That outburst was enough to be treated as an effective resignation.  See: See Dehne v. Ocean Club II Condo. Ass’n Inc., Arb.…

Hope everyone had both a happy and a healthy new year.  I also hope you are all well rested and are now ready to stand-up and protect yourselves by demanding new laws that benefit our community associations.  For the next few weeks, we will let you know what community association law bills have been filed…

We all know that the condo and HOA statutes contain differences that often times don’t make any sense.  Let’s review two more instances of there being no real justification for differences among the statutes. In an HOA, before the Board files suit, there is a statute they need to consider: 720.303(1): Before commencing litigation against…