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It’s no secret that the Fair Housing Act prohibits housing providers from discriminating against individuals with disabilities. An community association thus must make a "reasonable accommodation" to a disabled current or prospective resident who requires that accommodation to "use and enjoy a dwelling".
We’ve recently been contacted about homeowners in resident owned communities…
Followers of this blog know that I frequently caution that almost all board meetings in resident owned communities must be properly noticed and open to association members. There are specific provisions prohibiting board members from meeting "behind closed doors" in the statutes governing condominium associations, cooperative associations, and mandatory homeowners associations.
While…
Based on the responses I’ve received from my recent blog entries and presentations on fines and suspensions of use rights, it’s clear that these topics are "hot issues" in resident owned communities throughout Florida.
Although the Florida Statutes governing condominium, cooperative and mandatory homeowners associations all recognize an association’s power to fine or suspend…
I was born over a decade after the "day that will live in infamy" but it’s still hard to believe that seventy years have passed since the attack on Pearl Harbor.
I’ve been to Hawaii twice and on both occasions (once with my then young children) have visited the Memorial. The power and emotional…
Lindsay S. Smith, an attorney in the Denver office of Winzenburg, Leff, Purvis and Payne, recently posted a great entry on her firm’s Colorado Home Owners Association Law blog. As you’ll see from her article, Florida ROCs aren’t the only ones with residents that take it upon themselves to "befriend" and feed wild animals–in this…
My most recent entry summarized the some of the changes made by House Bill 1195 (which became effective on July 1 of this year) to several provisions of the laws governing cooperative associations in Florida.
House Bill 1195 created three new subsections to Florida Statute Section 719.303 that have the effect of extending to cooperative…
On June 21, Florida’s Governor approved House Bill 1195. The provisions contained in this legislation became effective on July 1, 2011.
HB 1195 was considered by many to be a "glitch bill" aimed a correcting oversights in laws passed in recent sessions of Florida’s legislature. However, HB 1195 does not expand the…
I was contacted earlier today by a manager whose association had installed a "wifi" system in the community’s clubhouse that would allow residents and their guests to bring their laptops and other mobile devices into the clubhouse and connect to the internet. A password would be needed to use the wifi system but this…
I’m posting the links to three recent articles for my blog readers:
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I have to assume that most of us that remain in Florida during the "off season" were not obsessed with the Casey Anthony trial.
Nonetheless, almost immediately after the verdict, the social media (characterized by numerous comments on my Facebook page) was buzzing with outrage. The mainstream media (which certainly contributed to the almost…