Florida condo & HOA news
Plain-English Florida condo and HOA law updates for owners, volunteer board members, managers, and everyone navigating community-association life.
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Written by Eric M. Glazer · Florida attorney
If you own a condo in Florida, a state agency (The DBPR) can audit your association's books, subpoena your board, fine your directors, and remove them from office. If you own a home in an HOA, that same agency has no authority to investigate your board at all, even for identical misconduct. This isn't an…
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Miami-Dade County has officially relaunched its Condominium Special Assessment Loan Program with approximately $15 million in funding available for eligible condo owners. The program offers loans of up to $50,000 per unit, including 0% interest loans for qualifying households, to help cover the cost of…
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A Lifetime of Lessons from the Front Lines of Condo & HOA LivingAfter decades of practicing condominium and HOA law, speaking with thousands of board members, owners, and managers, and living through the evolution of community associations in Florida, I can finally say it: This book is the culmination of a…
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Last week we focused on board resolutions. Now it’s the owners’ turn. Most condo and HOA disputes start with skipped rules, personal reactions to enforcement, or not participating until there’s a problem. Living in an association means shared responsibility. Read the documents, stay engaged, pay on time, and…
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Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled that 100% means 100% when it comes to condo termination, siding with unit owners who fought back against a developer’s attempt to change voting rules mid-game. This major decision highlights the legal battle over whether older condo declarations can be overridden…
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Florida created two programs to help with rising insurance costs: My Safe Florida Home and My Safe Florida Condo. Both offered free wind mitigation inspections and grants to fund storm-resistant upgrades. Homeowners could receive up to $10K; condos up to $175K. However, as of now, both programs have paused…
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As we have blogged about for the past few weeks, HB 913 is about to become law on July 1st. The bill contains a myriad of topics. Here are the new provisions regarding the association’s website.
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Florida promised condo safety after Surfside. Now they’re backpedaling with bills that gut reserves. History is doomed to repeat.
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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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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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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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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 → If there ever was a column that I hated to write, this is it! Last week I spoke about a case I argued before The Florida Supreme Court in 2011 called Cohn v. The Grand Condominium. In that case, the minority commercial unit owners at The Grand Condominium challenged a new Florida statute that took away…
Read more → Boards of Florida condominium associations and homeowner associations are allowed to make rules regarding use of the common areas, access to records, the right to speak at meetings,and in a few other areas. Here are a few rules regarding rules: 1. Rules must be reasonable: Rules have to have a valid…
Read more → March 11, 2024 Until now there was no law in our Florida HOAs that would allow a home owner to install their own electrical generator with above ground or below ground gas tanks. Here we are, living in Florida with sometimes unbearable heat and humidity, we have a large elderly population, hurricanes…
Read more → 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 more → 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 more → 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…
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