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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…

Last year on Labor Day, Condo President Leava Mealoni had the day off from her real job working at the local day care center, changing diapers and otherwise helping to care for two year old kids.  It was well deserved. Leava would often come home with migraine headaches and smelling from all things that two…

As we all know from even our early school days, this country was founded upon the principle of no taxation without representation and one man one vote.  After achieving the ability to govern ourselves as a nation, women and minorities fought for and ultimately obtained the right to vote as well.  It’s pretty safe to…

As our listeners of the Condo Craze and H.O.A.’s radio show know, we’ve been spending some time recently telling them how they can make their property ready for a hurricane, so that if a storm hits, they can weather it.  We’ve spoken about preparing your roof, electricity, plumbing, interior furnishings and more.  There’s one more…

There’s no question that one of the subjects I get most often asked about is whether or not the Board has the right to reject an applicant for either a rental or a purchase in the community.  It would be great if there was some guidance, some statute, some rule that I can point them…

Chapter 468 of The Florida Statutes contains numerous provisions about how community association managers get disciplined by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.  This year, The Florida Legislature amended Florida law to allow community association managers to get disciplined if they violate  the Florida condominium, co-op or HOA statutes.  The Florida Supreme Court is…

No matter whether we live in a community association or not, we would all agree that Florida is lush with green spaces, beautiful towering palm trees, wide open fields of grass, exquisitely colored flowers and some of the most spectacular landscaping on the planet.  Just looking at all of these remarkable trees and flowers should…

I wrote this blog last year. I’m using it again because for many of us, and perhaps almost all of us, we are in the middle of the most difficult year of our lives. Nobody could have predicted the disaster that has been 2020 on a world-wide scale. So –I’m running the column again, hoping…

Well that was quite a year wasn’t it? 2020 was without a doubt the gloomiest, most depressing year that most of us have encountered in our lifetimes. It could not have ended soon enough. I don’t think it’s sufficient to just put it in the rear view mirror and forget about it. It would be…

It’s time to tell the members of the association all about the association’s finances, like it or not.  Both the Florida condominium and homeowner statutes mandate the following:     Within 90 days after the end of the fiscal year, or annually on a date provided in the bylaws, the association shall prepare and complete,…