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I’ve spent part of the past few days in email correspondence and telephone and person to person discussions about Proposed Committee Bill (PCB) BCAS 11-01 with fellow community association attorneys, ROC managers, and concerned board members.
As you may already know, earlier this week, the Business and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of the Florida House of…
I’ve been spending a good deal of time recently attending the annual membership meetings of a number of the ROCs we represent and helping many of our communities prepare for these meetings.
I thought I’d list a few reminders for board members and managers of condominium and cooperative associations preparing for annual meetings:
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I cringe every time a member of a resident owned condominium or cooperative association mentions that an event has been scheduled to "meet the candidates" running for the board of directors of that community.
It’s clear from the Florida Statutes governing the election of directors in condominium associations and cooperative associations that there is a…
What better way to start 2011 than with an "op-ed" piece in the January 3 issue of The New York Times that undermines the idea that pets are beneficial to our health and happiness?
"Fido’s No Doctor. Neither is Whiskers." was written by Hal Herzog, a professor of psychology at Western Carolina University, and…
I was contacted by a board member of a resident owned cooperative earlier this month with a rather interesting situation. One of the unit owners was videotaping the board meetings and now wanted to broadcast those videotapes on the "in house" channel that served the community. Was the association’s board required to allow the unit…
We just finished a busy two week stretch of very well attended seminars. Thanks to our friends at Paradise Bay Estates in Bradenton, Imperial Bonita Estates in Bonita Springs, Village at Riverwalk in North Port, and Hammock Estates in Sebring for hosting those events.
One of the topics we discussed involved how to balance the…
Now that the annual migration of the "snowbirds" to our resident owned communities is well under way, so are the number of complaints we receive each week about "nuisances". Whether it’s the dog that barks at all hours of the day and night, the next door neighbor who plays his stereo loudly, or the…
Here’s a wild situation that apparently occurred in a ROC in Florida as reported by one of my community association law colleagues:
Every director on the board of condominium association resigned rather than respond to a unit owner’s request to inspect the association’s official records. I’m sure we’re all wondering what these directors were…
Sometimes even I’m surprised by what can occur in a resident-owned community.
I recently received an email from one of the followers of my blog. I’ve copied and pasted most of it below for your review and comment:
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