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HAVE THE PRAYERS OF HOA OWNERS BEEN ANSWERED?
Florida’s HB 137 & SB 120 propose an HOA Ombudsman to support homeowners. Will this level the playing field? Share your thoughts!
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2025 – THE BEGINNING OF MASSIVE CHANGES TO OUR CONDO COMMUNITIES
2025 is a game-changer for Florida condos with new laws on inspections, repairs, and reserves, ensuring safety after the Surfside tragedy.
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FLORIDA DOING WHAT IT CAN TO PROTECT AGAINST FIRES
LA’s tragedy sparks fire safety talks. Eric & Karen explain FL high-rise fire rules, ELSS systems & what this means for condo owners.
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IT’S NOW TIME TO BE NEIGHBORLY AGAIN
2024 tested Florida with new laws and division. Let’s move forward as neighbors—thankful, united, and ready for a better 2025.
Read more → MANDATORY EDUCATION IS HERE AND SO ARE THE CLASSES
We fought long and we fought hard, but we got what we wanted; mandatory education for all condo board members and HOA board members. Now, all Board members of both condominiums and HOAs must become certified by both submitting a document stating you have read your governing documents and will comply with…
Read more → NOW LET’S TALK ABOUT EDUCATION FOR CONDO BOARD MEMBERS
Irecently blogged about the new statute requiring education for HOA Board Members. This week, let’s talk about mandatory education for condominium Board members. There is definitely a difference between the two. So here’s the new law……. 718.112(2)(d)4b – CONDOMINIUM DIRECTOR EDUCATION A director of a board…
Read more → NEW LAW IS A BENEFIT TO CONDOS AND REQUIRES A BOOST TO SECURITY
Florida condominiums always had the obligation to provide for the safety of its owners, residents and guests when it came to preventing crime in the community. The condominium association was negligent if it knew or should have known about prior crimes in the community or surrounding areas, and failed to…
Read more → STOP THE CROWD FROM BLAMING THE BOARD
Many of the associations I represent are getting ahead of the curve and they’re educating their owners about the expenses that are coming by having me show up at the condominium and put on a Power Point presentation showing precisely how these new laws came to be, including showing the actual vote by The…
Read more → IT’S ELECTION TIME AGAIN
This is going to be a very interesting election year for condos. I perceive that there is definitely going to be two types of candidates. The first will run a campaign that basically says: CANDIDATE ONE: I have lived here for twenty years. In light of the tragedy in Surfside, the dramatic rise in property…
Read more → A NEW YEAR UNLIKE THOSE IN THE PAST
I’m not going to tell you that you should have a bunch of new year resolutions that you must follow. We all know how long they last. So, I’ll only suggest one at the end of this article. However, I am going to tell you that if your budget still does not contain reserve funding, your new year is already off…
Read more → WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH
It has always been difficult to get volunteers to be on the Board of Directors. Even when times are good and the building has made repairs and has some money in the bank, you can never count on owners to volunteer their time for a position where on their best day they will be second guessed and criticized.…
Read more → SO WHERE WILL PRICES GO?
Ithink last night’s 60 Minutes episode made it clear that for some, living in their condominium unit may simply become unaffordable. The question is……which condos will suffer the most and which other forms of housing are most likely to retain their values and even go up. Everyone is freaking out that all…
Read more → WHY THE DIFFERENCES?
At a time when it would make sense for the condo and HOA laws to become easier to learn, they are becoming harder. Much has to do with why in the world are there such differences between the condo and HOA statutes? It’s actually ridiculous. For example: In order to get access to the official records, why…
Read more → LET’S GO TO THE NUMBERS
Afew weeks ago on the Condo Craze and HOAs radio show, I was sent a chart by a listener that showed that just under 50% of condominiums were funding a reserve account in full each month. As I was broadcasting this information, I felt that it sounded a little high. It turned out that I was referring to a…
Read more → A LABOR DAY TRADITION IS BACK
Nancy Knowitall is the President of Broken Dreams Condo, a 10 story 120 unit condominium here in South Florida. Nancy decides that because it’s Labor Day, she is going to prove to the owners just how dedicated her and her board are, by holding a Board meeting to discuss the state of the condominium and all…
Read more → FLORIDA’S NEW CONDO RESERVE and FIRE SAFETY LAWS – PART TWO
THE BIG CHANGE: NO LONGER IS THERE THE ABILITY TO WAIVE RESERVES OR USE THEM FOR OTHER PURPOSES Effective December 31, 2024, a unit-owner controlled association may not determine to provide no reserves or reserves less adequate than required by the items listed in the mandatory structural integrity reserve…
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