Dedicated to Resident-Owned Mobile Home, RV, and Subdivision Communities
Effective July 1, 2017, Florida’s condominium, cooperative and mandatory homeowners’ associations (and the management companies hired by those associations) will have some certainty and guidance when dealing with requests for estoppel certificates.
Florida Statute Sections 718.116, 719.108, and 720.30851 have all been amended.
Here are just a few highlights of those amendments:
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In the week or so since my last entry, I’ve been contacted by managers and board members from several resident owned cooperatives who have received notices about the new recent requirement for mandatory homeowners associations to register with the State.
I want to clarify that condominium associations formed under Florida Statute Chapter 718 and cooperative…
The recent revisions to Florida’s laws governing condominium associations, cooperative associations, and mandatory homeowners’ associations updated the procedures for producing, inspecting and copying an association’s "official records".
Effective July 1, 2013, an association in Florida’s resident owned communities can satisfy the requirement that it make its official records available for inspection and copying by:
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Here’s yet another example of how the statutes governing condominium associations differ from those governing cooperative associations:
The members of a community association have just approved an amendment to the association’s bylaws. Exactly when does the amendment to the bylaws become effective?
Florida Statute Section 718.112(1)(b) provides that no amendment to the bylaws of a…
Florida statutes governing condominium and cooperative associations specifically provide that it is the association’s board of directors that is responsible for the administration of the association. Similarly, the governing documents for most mandatory homeowners associations governed by Chapter 720 of the Florida Statutes and community associations governed by Chapter 617 of the Florida Statutes provide…