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Written by Eric M. Glazer · Florida attorney
While condo owners are now dealing with mandatory inspections, mandatory repairs and mandatory reserve accounts, both condo and HOA owners are facing the joint monumental problem of staggering increases in property insurance and the lack of choice among insurance companies. Our sponsor Greg Waltz sent me an…
Read: THE INSURANCE CRISIS IS AT A DANGEROUS POINT → I thought long and hard before writing this blog. I don’t want any of my readers or fans of the radio show or attendees of my seminars to take what I’m about to say as being either mean or personal because it certainly is not meant to be. So here goes…………… SOMETIMES YOUR QUESTIONS AGGRAVATE ME! There, I said…
Read: WHAT GETS ME FRUSTRATED → Sometimes HOAs are simply forgotten about when it comes to new laws. There’s usually a hands off approach by The Florida Legislature. Not this year. This year a new act was created called the “Homeowners’ Associations Bill of Rights.” Florida Statute.303. Now, like condominiums, notices of all board meetings…
Read: AN HOA MEMBER’S BILL OF RIGHTS – HB 919 → I can’t tell you how may fights I have been involved in regarding flags other than the U.S. flag flying above someone’s home and the fact that someone put down fake grass or stored a boat, that nobody can see, in their backyard. Well, here’s a new statute that solves both of those problems: Florida Statute…
Read: ANOTHER NEW LAW: HB 437 → Over the next few weeks, we will be blogging about the new laws The Florida Legislature passed, as they relate to Florida Condominiums and HOAs. Today, let’s start with the bill that was supposed to clear up all the glitches in the prior bill regarding milestone inspections and reserve studies. Here we go………
Read: SB 154 – PART ONE -- NEW LAWS → After litigating for 32 years here is what I learned for sure. When litigating, it’s better to be rich. I understand that may be obvious, but as the costs of litigation continue to rise, it’s a lesson that the average Joe needs to learn and learn quick. The bottom line is that it’s better to be rich…
Read: IT’S BETTER TO BE RICH → As you all know by now, Florida condominiums having 150 or more units must have a website that only owners can access and which posts the official records of the association. Here’s a little background as to how the law was passed. When originally drafted, the law was only to apply to condominiums with 500…
Read: COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION WEBSITES → A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about what Board members should do when they are confronted with a person screaming or yelling at them and otherwise acting nuts. In sum, the answer was “just walk away” because in those circumstances there is little you are going to be able to do to convince the maniac that…
Read: WHEN YOU CAN’T JUST WALK AWAY → April 3, 2023 Ifeel like I handled a thousand annual meetings in the last month, flying from one to the other. When running the meetings, and depending upon whether the association is a condominium or HOA, it is important to know if the person running for the board, or even the winner of the election, is…
Read: OWE MONEY? YOU MAY NOT BE ALLOWED TO RUN FOR THE BOARD → Now that condominiums are going to have to pass huge special assessments in order to make repairs and maintain new accounts with potentially millions of dollars in the bank, let me tell you one of the reasons I heard as to why these new laws should not go into effect. “Because we don’t trust our Board having…
Read: MAKE SURE YOU’RE COVERED → I was recently watching an interview of a black belt in karate. In addition he was built like The Hulk. He started to say what he does when someone curses him out and even challenges him to a fight. I was certainly expecting him to describe how he turns others into rubble. On the contrary, he said that…
Read: JUST WALK AWAY → oday the nation celebrates the birthday of our first and greatest President, George Washington. He certainly had problems to deal with. Assembling an army, fighting the British, battling extreme weather and lack of supplies. In the end, he defeated what was at the time, the most powerful nation on earth. And…
Read: IT’S PRESIDENT’S DAY. DOES YOUR PRESIDENT DESERVE SOME RECOGNITION? → The other day I was complaining to my Rabbi about something by text. I received an e-mail back that said: “I HEAR YOU.” I can’t tell you how much better I felt. Two days later I wrote an e-mail to the customer service department of a big company. The next day I received an e-mail that basically said I hear…
Read: I HEAR YOU! → The Florida Legislature will convene in March, so the next two months will be chaotic. Lobbyists will be walking the floors of The Capital wanting to meet privately with Legislators to explain why their proposed bill is so important and that the legislators must have a chance to vote on it. Some proposed…
Read: YOUR LEGISLATIVE WISH LIST → 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: SO WHERE WILL PRICES GO? → 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: WHY THE DIFFERENCES? → So last week we spoke about how a condominium may pass amendments to the declaration which would in effect limit or prevent leasing, but said amendment would not apply to those who did not vote in favor of the amendment. For a long time, Florida HOAs did not have language in the HOA statute which said sich…
Read: CAN YOUR ASSOCIATION PROHIBIT OR LIMIT RENTING? PART TWO → umors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. I just spent a week in the hospital — again with kidney stone issues. This is I believe the 5th time I needed some sort of surgery for this never ending painful problem. I left the hospital with a tube coming out of my right side. I still need a…
Read: AN HONEST PERSONAL UPDATE →Read it. Then watch it.
