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We just finished a busy two week stretch of very well attended seminars. Thanks to our friends at Paradise Bay Estates in Bradenton, Imperial Bonita Estates in Bonita Springs, Village at Riverwalk in North Port, and Hammock Estates in Sebring for hosting those events.
One of the topics we discussed involved how to balance the…
Now that the annual migration of the "snowbirds" to our resident owned communities is well under way, so are the number of complaints we receive each week about "nuisances". Whether it’s the dog that barks at all hours of the day and night, the next door neighbor who plays his stereo loudly, or the…
Here’s a wild situation that apparently occurred in a ROC in Florida as reported by one of my community association law colleagues:
Every director on the board of condominium association resigned rather than respond to a unit owner’s request to inspect the association’s official records. I’m sure we’re all wondering what these directors were…
Sometimes even I’m surprised by what can occur in a resident-owned community.
I recently received an email from one of the followers of my blog. I’ve copied and pasted most of it below for your review and comment:
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The manager at one of the ROCs we represent recently sent me a "Performance License for RV Parks/Campgrounds" from a company called SESAC. The manager wanted to know whether SESAC had the right to insist that the community obtain a license in order to play live or recorded songs in SESAC’s music catalog…
I just read an article at the CNN website about the Americans With Disabilities Act, which was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on July 26, 1990. That article contained a link to a story that personalizes the importance of the ADA and its intent to insure that all citizens…
Several of the resident-owned communities we work with have had the great displeasure of dealing with complaints filed by residents under the Fair Housing Act. Most of these complaints are without merit and are eventually resolved in favor of the community. Quite often, the resident filing the complaint is simply trying to delay…
It appears that, effective July 1, 2010, members and employees of condominium associations and mandatory homeowners’ associations in Florida will be entitled to some additional privacy protections thanks to Senate Bill 1196.
The Florida legislature, through Senate Bill 1196, has revised Florida Statute Sections 718.111(12) and 720.303(5) to provide that the following records–in addition…
Governor Crist signed Senate Bill 1196 into law last week and I’ll be posting several entries about the amendments to Florida’s statutes affecting condominiums, cooperatives, and mandatory homeowners’ associations in the coming weeks.
I’d like to first mention a provision in Senate Bill 1196 that corrects a "glitch" in the statutes governing cooperative associations.
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