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Written by Eric M. Glazer · Florida attorney
So you want to be on the Board of Directors. Did you ever wonder whether or not by being on the Board, you are subjecting yourself to loss of your personal assets should your association get sued. Unless you’re truly a bad guy or gal, you have little to worry about. Getting personal liability against an…
Read more → Let’s say your condominium building needs a paint job. It just so happens that the President of the association is the owner of a general contracting firm. He tells the Board to stop racking their brains trying to find a company. He promises to have his company do the job right. He will certainly give…
Read more → Funny how things work sometimes. Over the past 23 years, I have noticed an interesting pattern in Florida community associations. When money is tight and foreclosures are soaring, associations are far less likely to engage in litigation. Suddenly, nobody really cares what color someone painted their house…
Read more → Over the last several years, the issue of delinquencies in our Florida community associations became worse and worse. The more people didn’t pay, the more the good paying owners had to pay. The more bank foreclosures, the less the association was receiving in badly needed revenue. The real solution to the…
Read more → Here we go. It’s election time again in your community association. Year after year, we see some of the same mistakes, so let’s just review some of the laws and rules the too often get violated and may wind up causing your election to be deemed invalid in your condominium association. How many Board…
Read more → It’s true what they say……as you get older the years seem to go by quicker. This week, we stop and we take a moment to breathe. We are not blogging about any specific condo or HOA topic because the three bloggers need to do something much more important. And that is to thank each of you for continuing to…
Read more → (4) MANDATORY NONBINDING ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION OF DISPUTES.—The Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation shall employ full-time attorneys to act as arbitrators to conduct the arbitration hearings provided by this chapter. The…
Read more → When I teach the topic of association records at our Condo Craze Board Certification seminars, I try to make the topic pretty simple. In sum, if the record relates in any way to the operation of the association, it is an official record of the association and must be maintained. Arbitration cases have…
Read more → 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.…
Read more → Ioften 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 you write a…
Read more → 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 the other…
Read more → Ialways 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…
Read more → 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…
Read more → 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.…
Read more → 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…
Read more → 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 the…
Read more → We’re approaching the time of year when Boards are starting to prepare the budget for the following fiscal year. As we all know, in a condominium, the budget must show fully funded reserves, and the owners then have the option of waiving or reducing the funding of reserves. In an HOA, the budget can…
Read more → Every year, I am lucky enough to take my family on a trip to another city, whether it be here in the United States or even in a foreign country. It seems that every city I go to was planned far better than South Florida. On the contrary, it seems as if all of South Florida was built with no plan whatsoever…
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