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We’ve just been advised that House Bill 419 has been withdrawn from consideration for the upcoming legislative session in Tallahassee.   As you may recall, House Bill 419 contained provisions allowing the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to examine and inspect the property, books and records of almost any condominium, cooperative, timeshare, or mobile home park in Florida…

It’s always exciting to spread the word to my blog readers when a community joins the list of ROCs in Florida.  

Earlier today, the residents of Riverwalk Mobile Home Village closed on the purchase of their community.   Riverwalk is a beautiful manufactured housing community with over 200 sites located in North Port near the Myakka…

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…

The dates and locations for the resident-owned community seminars we’ll be conducting in February are now set.   We’ll discuss helpful hints for conducting annual membership meetings and other unit owner meetings and will also provide some insights into the importance of screening potential owners, occupants, and guests in your communities.   We’ll also leave time for…

The headline of Sunday’s edition of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reads "Condo Groups in Financial Pain".  The story accompanying that headline details the severe economic problems many condominium associations face as a result of the ongoing foreclosure crisis.   The article is well worth reading and contains examples of how several associations are attempting to survive a…

Can unit owners in resident-owned communities discover what the association is paying its employees, including the manager? 

We are asked this question frequently each year, especially when the association is in the process of preparing its annual budget.   Obviously, the association’s employees would prefer that information about the compensation they are receiving…