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On June 21, Florida’s Governor approved House Bill 1195. The provisions contained in this legislation became effective on July 1, 2011.
HB 1195 was considered by many to be a "glitch bill" aimed a correcting oversights in laws passed in recent sessions of Florida’s legislature. However, HB 1195 does not expand the…
I was contacted earlier today by a manager whose association had installed a "wifi" system in the community’s clubhouse that would allow residents and their guests to bring their laptops and other mobile devices into the clubhouse and connect to the internet. A password would be needed to use the wifi system but this…
We’ll be presenting the last series of this season’s ROC seminars during the end of March and the month of April.
Our first two have been scheduled and here are the dates and locations:
These events will…
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…
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…
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…
I just read two articles in the New York Times that I wanted to bring to the attention of the followers of my blog.
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I just read an article at the CNN website about the Americans With Disabilities Act, which was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on July 26, 1990. That article contained a link to a story that personalizes the importance of the ADA and its intent to insure that all citizens…
Several of the resident-owned communities we work with have had the great displeasure of dealing with complaints filed by residents under the Fair Housing Act. Most of these complaints are without merit and are eventually resolved in favor of the community. Quite often, the resident filing the complaint is simply trying to delay…
I’m posting links for my blog readers to two articles from last Sunday’s Sarasota Herald -Tribune and a story that was summarized in a recent edition of the Florida Manufactured Housing Association’s newsletter.
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