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Written by Eric M. Glazer · Florida attorney
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: SO WHAT AM I LEAVING OUT → 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: HEY……………WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM? → As I informed you last week, Representative Vicki Lopez, Senator Jennifer Bradley and Senator Jason Pizzo have filed companion bills HB1021 and SB1178 in The Florida House of Representatives and The Florida Senate that take aim at community association managers and community association management…
Read: COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MANAGERS ARE IN THE CROSSHAIRS- PART 2 → Representative Vicki Lopez, Senator Jennifer Bradley and Senator Jason Pizzo have filed companion bills HB1021 and SB1178. Leave no doubt, these bills take aim at community association managers and community association management companies. I will tell you that in my 32 years of practice, too many times…
Read: COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MANAGERS ARE IN THE CROSSHAIRS - PART 1 → I live in a great HOA. By great, I mean you would never know there was an HOA. It’s very hands off and it certainly seems like the owners in the community keep their houses well kept. One of the things I was allowed to do several years ago was install an underground 500 gallon propane tank in my front yard…
Read: A GENERATOR BILL THAT IS LONG OVER DUE → 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: THE ESTOPPEL FEE DEBATE → Let’s just say that 2024 has gotten off on the right foot. For those of you that have followed my career, you know how passionate I have been about mandatory education for condominium board members. I have drafted legislation requiring mandatory board education several times. Each time it would make it into…
Read: COULD THIS BE THE YEAR? → The Condo Craze and HOAs radio show will no longer be a radio show. After a 15 year run with 850 WFTL, it’s time to get bigger and better. Starting in 2024, the show will be moving into the 21st century and will be broadcast live on video on the Condo Craze and HOAs channel on You Tube. The new technology…
Read: CONDO CRAZE AND HOAs GETTING BIGGER AND BETTER → We all know what the cost of insurance is doing to our way of life. In most condominium associations, the cost of windstorm and peril insurance has tripled over the past few years, if not quintupled. And from what I am being told, there is no end in sight. God forbid another major storm hits and the…
Read: DO YOU REALLY WANT TO RISK NOT HAVING INSURANCE? → 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: SO WHAT CAN WE EXPECT IN 2024? → Every Thanksgiving week, I basically use the same blog, and change it up with new current events. Here we go…….. This might be tough for many of you. Israel is at war with terrorists. Our own country seems right on the brink. Food prices are still high. Gasoline prices are still high. Interest rates have…
Read: THANKSGIVING: SO WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR? → 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: THE NEW LAWS – A LITTLE BACKGROUND → There is so much dread in the world right now. So much death and uncertainty. I think it’s OK if this week we try to make the blog fun. It’s Ok. I think we all deserve it. So, let’s have some Halloween fun. Listed below are some fill in the bland sentences. List your answers below, keeping in mind that your…
Read: SOME HALLOWEEN FUN → 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…
Read: HOW TO COLLECT WHAT’S DUE? → It’s hard writing a blog for over 50 weeks a year for the past decade. For me, the situation in Israel had made it impossible. Suddenly, squabbling over guests or pets or decorations or colors really sounds silly and a waste of time. Doesn’t it? I really don’t feel like writing about it this week. It’s hard…
Read: PERSPECTIVES → Election season is beginning in all of our condos and HOAs. Now is the time that most of your associations are sending out their first notices of the annual meeting and people are returning a notice that says they want to run for a seat on the Board of Directors. Each year, without fail, I get a complaint…
Read: BUT THEY DON’T EVEN LIVE HERE! → In 2020 when Covid was roaring, I had lots of questions thrown at me regarding what Boards can and cannot do when it came to mandating masks and/or keeping people out of the condominium property or HOA clubhouse. Newly enacted Florida Statute 381.00316 has just answered some of the questions we only guessed…
Read: UNFORTUNATELY – BACK TO COVID-19 FOR A MOMENT → There has been so much talk about the new condo laws. However, one new HOA law is a major change to the thousands of HOAs throughout the state. As we know, you lose some of your rights to use your property the way you want to use it when moving into a deed restricted community. But suppose what you want to…
Read: NEW HOA LAW IS WELCOMED BY MANY →Read it. Then watch it.
