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In the past few months, while many of the residents in our communities have escaped Florida’s heat and humidity, our friends at the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development have been busy expanding the reach of Fair Housing protections.
Here are a few of HUD’s more notable recent actions on the Fair Housing…
ROC board members can meet their board certification requirement by attending the 6th Annual Community Association Festival at the Venice Community Center on February 17, 2016. Registration with a free continental breakfast starts at 8:30 a.m. There will be several informative and entertaining speakers featured from 9 a.m. until 11:45 a.m. We’ll break for…
ROC board members and managers have several opportunities to network and learn over the next few weeks:
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Most Floridians know that our real "hurricane season" begins around the time that thoughts turn to football and our students returning to school. This year is no different as we have been following the progress of Tropical Storm Erika.
Earlier today, Florida’s governor declared a state of emergency. While the path and intensity…
There’s a great opportunity for managers and board members of resident owned communities scheduled for Wednesday, April 16, at the Venice Community Center. It’s the 4th Annual Community Association Festival, complete with free breakfast and lunch, prizes, food, steel drums, lots of Hawaiian shirts (wear one if you’re attending) and informative and…
I’m posting a link for tomorrow’s Community Association Day scheduled at the Bradenton Area Convention Center. CA Day is always a very well attended event with tremendous opportunities for ROC Board Members to learn, network, and have fun. Admission is free but if you have a chance to rsvp for the event please do…
Our first certification training course for board members of resident owned cooperative associations was a great success with over 80 attendees earlier this week at Westwinds Village in Bradenton. Thanks to everyone that attended and to Westwinds for its great hospitality.
We’ve added one more date to those we’ve already scheduled:
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Welcome to the new world of training for board members in our resident-owned cooperatives!
Annual meeting season has begun and new board members are being elected. As you know, Florida Statutes now require that newly elected or appointed board members either certify in writing to the co-op’s secretary that the new board member has…
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…
I was just forwarded a press release from Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation announcing the creation of its website for mandatory homeowners’ associations to register online.
As my blog readers may recall, Florida’s legislature recently passed a law that for the first time requires all mandatory homeowners’ associations (governed under Chapter 720 of…