So Tuesday has come and gone. We can finally watch TV again without being told which political candidate is the lesser of two evils during every single commercial break. No more annoying pop up ads on the internet begging for money or spam e-mails begging for your vote. Election season is finally over. Unless of…
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SO…….WHO IS THE SCARIEST PERSON IN YOUR COMMUNITY?
I often choose a topic for the blog that corresponds to an upcoming holiday or a specific time of year. For example, we normally write about your right to fly the flag on or about July 4th of each year. The next holiday is only 4 days away, and it’s Halloween. The problem is…..how can…
ARE TERM LIMITS A GOOD THING OR A BAD THING?
On today’s radio show, a woman complained that in her HOA, there is never a quorum that appears at the annual meeting and therefore the same board remains in place year after year. Remember…in an HOA, in order to have a valid election, a quorum must appear at the annual meeting. In a condo on…
CAN THE BOARD FORCE FULLY FUNDED RESERVES?
I always thought that the dry part of the Board Certification Course was teaching about budgets and reserves. The material simply doesn’t lend itself to any interesting side stories or provide much room for jokes or even amusing anecdotes. However, the funny thing is that it’s normally the part of the seminar that gets the…
CAMs: Avoid That Temptation at all Costs
After doing this for 22 years now, I don’t get surprised that often any longer by anything that takes place in the world of condos and HOAs. This week however, I was quite surprised. Twice in the same week, community association managers brought it to my attention that companies that do business in South Florida…
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SAFE
It appears as if the foreclosure crisis is coming to a close. You made it through. You survived. You were one of the few that paid the mortgage payments each month, paid your taxes, paid your assessments, paid your insurance and you were nothing short of a model unit owner. Sorry…….you still have to go.…
IS A C.A.M. MANDATORY?
The other day on the show, we spoke about a President of an association who is in trouble because he used community association funds to pay himself for doing services that would normally be performed by a licensed community association manager. So, you might ask, does that mean all community associations must hire a community…
BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY
If you listened to the show last week, you know that my wife and I dodged a huge bullet. Our children were swimming in our pool and as they were swimming toward the deep end, they began yelling at each other that they both felt like they were getting zapped with electricity. They immediately got…
IS ASSOCIATION CRIME ON THE RISE?
Many of you heard the Condo Craze show a few weeks ago concerning the Mainlands VII HOA in Tamarac, where a President was arrested for stealing over $180,000.00 from her association. Earlier in the week, I appeared on the local news regarding yet another President allegedly taking tens of thousands of dollars for management fees,…
A LABOR DAY STORY – TRUTH OR FICTION?
It’s Labor Day and condo President Esa Nomyjob, has the day off from work. She gets to stay home from work and simply enjoy all the wonderful amenities her condo has to offer. It’s well deserved. The day starts off though with a call from Willie Winer, that the upstairs neighbor has apparently let…