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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…
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…
I’ve been spending a good deal of time recently attending the annual membership meetings of a number of the ROCs we represent and helping many of our communities prepare for these meetings.
I thought I’d list a few reminders for board members and managers of condominium and cooperative associations preparing for annual meetings:
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I cringe every time a member of a resident owned condominium or cooperative association mentions that an event has been scheduled to "meet the candidates" running for the board of directors of that community.
It’s clear from the Florida Statutes governing the election of directors in condominium associations and cooperative associations that there is a…
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…
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…
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…
I was contacted by a board member of a resident owned cooperative earlier this month with a rather interesting situation. One of the unit owners was videotaping the board meetings and now wanted to broadcast those videotapes on the "in house" channel that served the community. Was the association’s board required to allow the unit…
I know everyone is busy preparing for the holidays but I wanted to post our January seminar schedule:
All of these seminars will start at 10 a.m. and…
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…