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I’m posting two very different articles for the education and enjoyment of my blog readers:
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Most ROC managers and board members know that Florida statutes governing condominium associations and cooperative associations allow directors to attend a board meeting by phone.
While the statutes governing mandatory homeowners associations don’t provide for an HOA board member to appear by phone at a board meeting, if the HOA is a not-for-profit corporation…
One of the resident-owned cooperatives we work with recently contacted me with a very interesting question. This ROC wanted to create a "community garden" on an unused common area and the manager wanted my opinion as to whether the board could authorize this "community garden" or whether a vote of the members would be required.
As many…
Board members and managers in resident-owned condominiums and cooperatives may recall that tucked away in Chapters 718 and 719 of the Florida Statutes are several provisions that require associations to "retrofit" their "common areas" with handrails or guardrails and fire sprinkler systems or other "engineered life safety" systems. The statutes provide that these retrofitting requirements…
I’ve been conducting "mini board orientations" at our current series of ROC seminars at Harbor Oaks in Fruitland Park, Japanese Gardens in Venice, and Golf Lakes in Bradenton. In my presentation, I provide a list of ten suggestions to help board members deal with the issues that arise in resident owned communities.
One of those…
A column in a recent edition of the Sarasota Herald Tribune highlighted the problems that all too often arise in communities when boards and managers fail to enforce a community rule on a consistent basis. When a particular rule is enforced only against some of the residents in the community (with no legitimate reason for…
I always enjoy reading Richard White’s column in the Florida Community Association Journal. While there are several attorneys that contribute regularly to this publication, Mr. White presents the manager’s perspective on questions and issues arising in resident owned communities.
His column in the January 2010 issue of the Journal included an answer to a reader…
The last of our second series of seminars for the season is set for February 24th at Caribbean Isles in Apollo Beach. We’ll be starting our last set of presentations less than two weeks from now.
Here are the dates and locations of these upcoming seminars:
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I just returned from a brief trip to Memphis, Tennessee and visited the National Civil Rights Museum, which is located at the site of the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The museum has incorporated much of the Lorraine Hotel (including the room in which Dr. King stayed and the balcony…
ROC managers, board members and the professionals that advise them quite often long for the "good old days" when the Florida Statutes governing condominium associations (Chapter 718) and cooperative associations (Chapter 719) were almost identical in provisions concerning elections, eligibility to run for the board, and waivers of financial reporting requirements.
Those days are, for…