Month: June 2021

As they say…hindsight is 20/20.  The tragedy in Surfside rips your guts out.  I had to go there and see it for myself.  I did.  I then walked over to the memorial and saw pictures of the victims, including little kids, entire families and you wonder how anything like this could have possibly happened.  Immediately…

I was lucky enough to be on vacation the past two weeks.  On my last day, I woke up to the tragedy that was unfolding in Dade County as the Champlain Towers South Condominium came crashing down in Surfside.  There are still over 150 people missing or unaccounted for.  Before commenting on this devastation that…

I worked my way through college by working at The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.  I loved my job.  I would interview defendants to determine if community service was a more appropriate punishment than incarceration.  If I was convinced that the defendant could be trusted, I would send him or her to a church, nursing home,…

A very interesting case was just decided by Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal. RIVIERA-FORT MYERS MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC., v. GFH INVESTMENTS, LLC. 2020 WL 7767856. To simplify, in a mixed-use community, meaning a community made up of commercial property and residential housing, the Master Association adopted seven amendments to the community’s master declaration. The…