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I always enjoy reading Richard White’s column in the Florida Community Association Journal. While there are several attorneys that contribute regularly to this publication, Mr. White presents the manager’s perspective on questions and issues arising in resident owned communities.
His column in the January 2010 issue of the Journal included an answer to a reader…
The last of our second series of seminars for the season is set for February 24th at Caribbean Isles in Apollo Beach. We’ll be starting our last set of presentations less than two weeks from now.
Here are the dates and locations of these upcoming seminars:
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I just returned from a brief trip to Memphis, Tennessee and visited the National Civil Rights Museum, which is located at the site of the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The museum has incorporated much of the Lorraine Hotel (including the room in which Dr. King stayed and the balcony…
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…
What can the directors or other members of a ROC do when the President refuses a request to bring an item before the board for consideration?
There are a number of factors that should be considered in answering this question:
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Those of you that attended our recent ROC seminars at the Molokai community in Leesburg and Sandalwood Park in Venice know that the Federal Trade Commission has delayed the implementation of the "Red Flag" Identity Protection Rules until June 1, 2010. I briefly summarized my understanding of these rules and how they may impact resident…
The managers and board members in the communities we work with have been faced with some rather interesting situations during the past few months. Here’s a sampling–see if you can guess what they have in common:
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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 Florida Legislature substantially revised several sections of our state’s Condominium Act last year. One of the important revisions focused on the length of time a unit owner could serve as a board member without seeking re-election. Effective October 1, 2008, the terms of all members serving on condominium association boards were considered to…
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…