One of my recent blog entries discussed House Bill 849, a welcome product of Florida’s 2011 legislative session. House Bill 849 created new Florida Statute Section 514.0315, which gives pool owners the option of installing any of five different types of equipment in order to meet the requirements of the Virginia Graeme Baker
News of note for ROCs
New Law May Help Manufactured Housing ROCs Deal With Code Violations
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Earlier this month, Governor Scott signed into law Chapter 2011-105, the Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 650.
One of the highlights of this Senate Bill is the creation of a new section of Chapter 723, Florida’s statutes governing mobile home park tenancies.
New Florida Statute Section 723.024–Compliance by mobile home park owners…
Sawmill Resort and Campground Joins the ROC Family
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Sawmill Resort and Campground is located near Dade City in Pasco County in west central Florida. It’s in a very rustic area with about 178 spaces for recreational vehicles, a number of existing cabins and camping sites, a general store, a recreational hall that doubles as a night club, and a pool and poolside…
Status Quo for CAMs and ROCs–For Now, At Least
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Last week I posted an entry about attempts by some members of Florida’s legislature to eliminate the regulation of Community Association Managers as well as the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares and Mobile Homes and (for good measure) end mandatory non-binding arbitration for certain disputes between owners and the associations governing their communities.
Proposed Committee…
A Few Presentations on the Horizon
We’ll be presenting the last series of this season’s ROC seminars during the end of March and the month of April.
Our first two have been scheduled and here are the dates and locations:
- Wednesday, March 30th at Piney Point in Ellenton
- Friday, April 1st at Lake Bonnet Village in Avon Park
These events will…
ROC Alert: Proposed Committee Bill 11-01
I’ve spent part of the past few days in email correspondence and telephone and person to person discussions about Proposed Committee Bill (PCB) BCAS 11-01 with fellow community association attorneys, ROC managers, and concerned board members.
As you may already know, earlier this week, the Business and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of the Florida House of…
Now This ROC has issues!!
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I was just forwarded this article from last Saturday’s Washington Post. I’ll let the story speak for itself and hope you enjoy reading it.
Perhaps this cautionary tale should be prominently displayed on the bulletin boards in all of our resident-owned communities as an extreme example of what can happen when too many members…
Tropicana Joins the ROC family
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I didn’t want January to end without welcoming a new resident-owned community into the fold.
Just before 2010 came to a close, Tropicana Mobile Manor in Fort Myers was bought by an association of homeowners formed to purchase the park and convert it to a resident-owned cooperative, Tropicana Co-op, Inc.
Tropicana has 470 total spaces…
A Plea for Civility
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I’m surely not alone in trying to understand the tragedy that occurred just over a week ago in Tucson. Regardless of one’s political views, it’s certainly worth considering the clear lack of civility and common courtesy that seems to be the rule rather than the exception throughout our country today.
Several days after the shootings…
A Few Tidbits to Welcome in the New Year
What better way to start 2011 than with an "op-ed" piece in the January 3 issue of The New York Times that undermines the idea that pets are beneficial to our health and happiness?
"Fido’s No Doctor. Neither is Whiskers." was written by Hal Herzog, a professor of psychology at Western Carolina University, and…