HOUSE BILL 913 – Part One
It should come as no surprise that Representative Vicki Lopez came right out of the gate this year and filed a massive condo bill.
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BEFORE YOU GO BAD-MOUTHING YOUR BOARD
Condo turmoil: Red-tagged building, $4.5M repairs, residents demand transparency on past funds. Know your rights and ask for records!
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SO YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR CONDOMINIUM UNIT?
When selling your condo, it’s not ‘buyer beware’—it’s ‘seller disclose everything!’ Florida law demands transparency. Learn what’s required.
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FORECLOSURES ARE ALREADY RISING
Delinquencies are rising before mandatory reserves kick in. Learn the 120-day process associations must follow to collect unpaid assessments
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THE ANNUAL MEETING IN AN HOA – WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
HOA election night: so much can go wrong! From proxies to ballots, nominations to quorums—learn how to avoid common pitfalls & stay on track
Read more → IT’S TIME FOR BANKS OR OUR GREAT STATE TO COME TO THE RESCUE
Last week I made it clear that Floridians better understand that if they cannot afford the mandatory wave of special assessments that are coming for inspections, repairs and reserves they better put their condo up for sale, and fast, before a foreclosure is ultimately filed against them for failing to pay…
Read more → Sorry condo owners – it is what it is.
Even the possibility of The Florida Legislature going into Special Session in order to solve this alleged condo crisis is insane. You know why? Because our legislators had the guts to fix it two years ago after 98 innocent victims perished in a condominium building that was in a terribly poor, dangerous…
Read more → THE OTHER WAY TO TERMINATE THE CONDOMINIUM
Last week in my blog, I discussed how developers attempt to buy enough units in order to vote to Terminate the condominium. By doing so, the developer files a plan of termination, and buys up all the units. We also spoke about the fact that in some condominiums, a vote of 100% of the owners may be required…
Read more → DOES A DEVELOPER ALWAYS HAVE THE ABILITY TO TERMINATE A CONDO?
Let me tell you what you should be looking for in your condominium documents after you stop reading this: the provisions in your declaration of condominium allowing termination of the condominium itself. We know that condo assessments have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled in many instances due to…
Read more → THE DBPR HAS LOTS OF NEW POWER – WILL THEY USE IT?
There has been lots of complaints over the years that when condominium owners bring their complaints to the DBPR and expect some help, the only thing they got in return was a letter that said the DBPR has no jurisdiction over the subject matter of their complaint. I actually watched a legislative hearing in…
Read more → IF YOU DON’T HAVE THE STOMACH
I’m thinking about that condo President, perhaps but not necessarily in a 55 and over community, who has been on the board for over 10 years. He or she has put in countless hours for the community and hasn’t been paid a dime. For the last decade, every day the residents of the community wave and say hello…
Read more → SO WHAT AM I LEAVING OUT
So when I wrote my blog last week asking people what their problems are, I couldn’t help but think about all of the issues that can arise in a condominium or HOA. It’s almost endless. Here’s some issues that are routinely litigated or arbitrated:faulty elections, failure to hold meetings, failure to post…
Read more → HEY……………WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM?
Every week, Jan, Rafael and myself blog about the issues that affect all of you that live in community associations throughout our great state. Read in a vacuum, one would think that you would have to be nuts to want to live in one of these community associations where boards of directors have more control…
Read more → THE ESTOPPEL FEE DEBATE
If you think that mandatory condo education for board members was controversial, you haven’t heard anything yet. When a unit owner wants to sell their home, the buyer wants to make sure that the seller does not owe the association money. You see, if the buyer buys the property without making sure the condo,…
Read more → SO WHAT CAN WE EXPECT IN 2024?
I just finished watching the meeting before The Regulated Industries Committee in The Florida Senate. The topic, Florida condominiums and The DBPR. I must say I found the meeting very interesting. The testimony of the former Florida Condominium Ombudsman, Spencer Henning, was truly compelling. He spoke of…
Read more → THE NEW LAWS – A LITTLE BACKGROUND
This blog is going to make a lot of people angry and perhaps a lot of people thinking I did the right thing, but here we go….. The tragic collapse of the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida occurred on June 24th, 2021 killing 98 innocent men, women and children. I was there a few days later staring at…
Read more → IT’S BUDGET TIME. YOU BETTER BE INCLUDING BAD DEBT
It’s November —and November means it’s time to get out the budget for next year. One of the line items that should definitely be included in your budget is “bad debt.” Bad debt is the amount of money you are not going to collect from your non paying owners. For example: let’s say that your assessments…
Read more → HOW TO COLLECT WHAT’S DUE?
We are already starting to see an uptick in the amount of owners falling behind on paying their assessments to their association. It is wise for an association to know how the collections process works in for the board to put in place a policy that works best for the association. In both condos, Co-ops, and…
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