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We’ve made it through the first month of 2020! February will be very busy as I am offering board certification training for prospective and current Directors of cooperative associations (governed under Chapter 719 of the Florida Statutes) on the following dates:
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Labor Day has come and gone, several tropical systems are swirling in the Atlantic (you may recall that all of Florida was in panic mode awaiting Irma this time last year) and our snowbirds will be returning before we know it. Seems like a good time to discuss some of the changes made to Chapter…
Just when you think the world couldn’t get any nuttier…
I’m posting the link to this story without further comment–but I’ll look forward to your thoughts about the situation in which this association now finds itself.
I’m typing this blog entry on an absolutely beautiful afternoon in Sarasota. Sunshine, low humidity and temperatures in the mid-seventies. It’s hard to believe that it’s been just six weeks since Hurricane Irma rampaged through our state and disrupted our lives.
All in all,most of the resident owned communities we work with were spared…
I’m sure everyone reading this post is well aware that Florida is being threatened by a massive and powerful hurricane that has already caused numerous deaths and incredible destruction over the past few days.
I’m typing this on Thursday afternoon (September 7th) and Hurricane Irma remains a Category 5 system capable of causing additional catastrophic…
Effective July 1, 2017, Florida’s condominium, cooperative and mandatory homeowners’ associations (and the management companies hired by those associations) will have some certainty and guidance when dealing with requests for estoppel certificates.
Florida Statute Sections 718.116, 719.108, and 720.30851 have all been amended.
Here are just a few highlights of those amendments:
As…
In the past few months, while many of the residents in our communities have escaped Florida’s heat and humidity, our friends at the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development have been busy expanding the reach of Fair Housing protections.
Here are a few of HUD’s more notable recent actions on the Fair Housing…
ROC board members and managers have several opportunities to network and learn over the next few weeks:
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Most Floridians know that our real "hurricane season" begins around the time that thoughts turn to football and our students returning to school. This year is no different as we have been following the progress of Tropical Storm Erika.
Earlier today, Florida’s governor declared a state of emergency. While the path and intensity…
Several managers of resident owned communities have asked me to discuss the recent Florida Supreme Court opinion concerning certain activities performed by non-lawyer CAMs.
The Court was asked whether these activities, if performed by a non-lawyer community association manager, would constitute the "unlicensed practice of law". On May 14, 2015, the Court…