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On February 28 of this year, residents of Indianwood Golf & Country Club purchased their community, with the assistance of Marty Pozgay’s Florida Community Services Group.
Indianwood is a 596 space manufactured housing community located in Indiantown, which is located in Martin County, west of Stuart and southeast of Okeechobee. All but 10 of…
Last night’s blog entry focused on the most recent version of House Bill 319 and specifically on two revisions–the addition of the "safe harbor" provisions found in Chapters 718 and 720 of the Florida Statutes to F.S. Section 719.108 and the removal of the "certification/education" requirement for newly elected or appointed board members in…
As most of the followers of this blog know, Florida’s legislature is currently in session in Tallahassee.
The bill that may be of most interest to community association managers, homeowners, and those of us that provide legal assistance and advice to ROCs-–House Bill 319–has been making its way through the various legislative…
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…
Florida’s Republican primary is just a few days away and many, if not most, of the community associations in our state are in the midst of their own ROC board elections.
What better time to remind unit owners in condominiums and cooperatives about the procedures that must be followed if the association wishes to…
We’re only two weeks into 2012 and I’ve already had the opportunity to make a presentation on conducting elections in community associations for managers and board members on behalf of our local chapter of the Community Associations Institute and speak about the"55 and over" exemption and other Fair Housing issues at this month’s meeting of EPROC at the Colony Hills community in Zephyrhills. EPROC has grown tremendously in the two short years since its formation and this is in large part due to the efforts of Rebecca Gaddis, who recently accepted a new position with the San Antonio Citizens Federal Credit Union. Since that’s San Antonio, Florida (not Texas), and she’ll be based out of Zephyrhills, EPROC will continue to benefit from Rebecca’s involvement. It was very encouraging to see so many communities represented at EPROC’s January meeting and I’ll look forward to returning to their April meeting to moderate a discussion on the various types of community management.
I’m pleased to announce the dates of our next set of seminars for managers and board members in resident owned communities:
We’ll be covering a number of topics at these seminars, including the following:
As always, we’ll discuss any proposed legislation affecting resident owned communities and leave some time for questions and suggested topics for future seminars.
All of these seminars start at 10 a.m. but many attendees arrive a bit early to enjoy the refreshments and meet and greet attendees from other communities. We’ll aim for ending these seminars between noon and 12:30.
Please call Karen Midlam or Kathy Sawdo at our office (941-951-1800) or email them at kmidlam@lutzbobo.com or ksawdo@lutzbobo.com to let us know which of these seminars you’ll be attending, the number of members from your community that will be attending, and whether you’ll need directions to the host community.
There’s no charge to attend and enjoy some refreshments and the company of other ROC board members–and pick up some useful information!
I hope to see you at one of these seminars.
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…
We’ve got a very busy five or six weeks ahead of us with several chances for managers and board members in resident owned communities to hear from us:
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