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I’ve been conducting "mini board orientations" at our current series of ROC seminars at Harbor Oaks in Fruitland Park, Japanese Gardens in Venice, and Golf Lakes in Bradenton. In my presentation, I provide a list of ten suggestions to help board members deal with the issues that arise in resident owned communities.
One of those…
A column in a recent edition of the Sarasota Herald Tribune highlighted the problems that all too often arise in communities when boards and managers fail to enforce a community rule on a consistent basis. When a particular rule is enforced only against some of the residents in the community (with no legitimate reason for…
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…
Yesterday’s "Sarasota Herald Tribune" featured a column by Tom Lyons about a dispute between the board of a condominium association and one of its residents. As I read the article (which was headlined "Condo flag fight needs a little common sense") I wondered whether this association’s directors had considered the negative publicity resulting…
The President of one the many "55 and over" resident-owned communities we represent recently contacted me to discuss what is becoming an all too familiar situation:
The rules governing this community specify that at least one of the persons occupying a home had to be at least 55 years of age and that any other…
ROC managers and board members that have asked me to help create or amend rules governing their communities know that I stress the importance of a unit owner obtaining the written approval of the board before that unit owner can take certain actions, including the following:
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"Civility" is a new "buzz word" as a result of the outburst of the South Carolina congressman who yelled "you lie" during President Obama’s address to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives last week. Regardless of how one feels about the health care reform debate, this interruption of the President’s speech by…
ROC managers and board members in "55 and over" communities know that the Fair Housing Laws and the Housing for Older Persons Act require that at least 80 per cent of the homes in the community must be occupied by at least one person 55 years of age or older. This requirement is often referred…
One of our ROC managers recently contacted me about a resident who claimed that the community was violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (often referred to as the "HIPAA laws"). While the community’s rules and regulations did not allow pets, several exceptions to the "no pet" rules had been…
I’ve received two calls this month about golf cart accidents in resident owned communities.
The first call was from a resident who had been given my name at the office at one of the ROCs we represent. This resident told me that he was attending a private function in the ROC’s clubhouse and drove his…