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As all Floridians know, our hurricane season doesn’t really get under way until August and we’re currently watching a very large system—Tropical Storm Isaac–slowly develop.
At this point, it’s anyone’s guess whether and to what extent our communities will be impacted by this system.
ROC managers (and board members that remain in…
Regular followers of my blog recall that I’ve discussed the challenges resident owned communities face when dealing with animals such as feral cats, muscovy ducks and black bears.
Many of our ROCs in South Sarasota County (and several in Pasco County) have struggled with the problem of another type of unwanted visitor–in this…
As a follow up to last night’s blog entry about Tropical Storm Debby, Governor Scott has declared a state of emergency for Florida .
Again, managers, board members and residents of ROCs should follow any and all directives issued by state or local authorities, including mandatory evacuation orders.
The National Hurricane Center’s most …
I’ve spent most of the past two days following The Weather Channel and watching the water level in the retention pond behind our home continue to rise with each passing hour.
While full-time Floridians like to joke that hurricane season doesn’t start in our neck of the woods until late July or August, Tropical Storm…
Yesterday’s edition of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel featured a column by Donna DiMaggio Berger, the executive director of the Community Advocacy Network and a partner in the Katzman, Garfinkel and Berger law firm.
In what Ms. Berger calls an "unprecedented move," The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently announced that it would end…
Carol Grondzik,one of my colleagues in our firm’s Tallahassee office, just forwarded a link that answers many frequently asked questions about the pool accessibility requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. As I mentioned in one of my earlier blog entries this year, those requirements were set to go into effect in March but have…
I wanted to post two recent articles related to the death of Trayvon Martin.
The first discusses the potential liability facing the Retreat at Twin Lakes Homeowners’ Association as Trayvon was apparently shot and killed by a member of that association’s "neighborhood watch" group.
The second release was published by the Community Associations Institute…
A set of new regulations created in 2010 under the Americans with Disabilities Act was scheduled to go into effect on March 15, 2012. Late last week, the deadline for compliance with these regulations was extended for 60 days with the possibility of an additional extension of time to allow for clarification and further…
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…
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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