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Every ROC has at least one "gadfly"–that owner who has decided, for whatever reason, to devote every waking minute to creating as much misery as possible for the manager, the board, and the other members of the community. We consider a community lucky if it’s home to only one of these cantankerous creatures.
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As many of my readers know, while my wife and children graduated from the University of Florida, I graduated from the University of Michigan and received my law degree from Ohio State. I was born and raised on Big Ten football and bleed maize and blue (to the dismay of my Buckeye friends and…
My last blog entry discussed the rights of an association to assess fines and suspend rights to use facilities in a resident owned cooperative as provided in Florida Statute Section 719.303(3). Both condominium associations (under F.S. Section 718.303(3)) and mandatory homeowners’ associations (under F.S. Section 720.305(2)) have similar enforcement tools where a unit owner or…
The very successful and well attended 2nd Annual Dowd, Whitaker & Associates Community Festival was held in Venice earlier this week. I was pleased to be one of the presenters at the Festival and had the opportunity to speak to an impressive number of members and managers of resident owned cooperatives throughout southwest Florida.
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Since we’ve just recently observed Labor Day and President Obama’s "Jobs Plan" continues to make headlines, I thought I’d discuss three situations involving ROC employees that are all too common and can create some major problems for resident owned communities:
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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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