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MEDIA ARTICLES
Will
new Florida rules make HOAs regulated like condos?
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Article and Video Courtesy of Channel 5 News
By Jenn Strathman
Published September 14, 2013
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Many homeowners are fed up with how their homeowners association, or HOA, is run. New state laws are aimed to stop HOA dictatorships, and the rules are similar to ones already in place for condos.
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THE
STATE MOVES TO REGULATE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
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Article
and Video Courtesy of Action News -- FOX CH. 30
By
Amanda Warford
Published
August 12, 2013
More than 2 million Floridians pay their monthly dues to Homeowners Associations, and there are hundreds of those groups in Jacksonville alone.
Attorney Fred Elefant says HOA members paid the price when the housing market collapsed, and
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New HOA laws deserve support
Sun
Sentinel Editorial
Published
August 11, 2013
Florida just made the job of a homeowner's association board member a lot tougher — and that's a good thing.
A new law that took effect this month requires more transparency, accountability and professionalism from the state's 14,000-plus HOA communities. And it holds to a higher standard those volunteers who serve on boards of directors — owners who can wield a lot of power over their fellow neighbors.
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Help Is on the Way for Florida's Homeowner Associations
Article
Courtesy of the Florida Community Association Journal
By Eric M. Glazer, Esq.
Published
July 2013
For far too long, homeowner associations have been treated like the red-headed stepchild of the Florida Legislature. Condominium associations in Florida are governed by a superior and more detailed statute. Furthermore, unit owners in condominiums get assistance from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) through an informative website with online forms, a hotline to
answer condominium law questions, investigators to answer complaints, and document examiners to review developer filings, declaratory statements, and more. It was time to at least try and level the playing field. This past legislative session
Cyber Citizens for Justice (www.ccfj,net) made it their
priority to get much needed legislative help to Florida homeowner associations and sought my firm's legal assistance and the assistance of Richard Pinsky, a lobbyist
with Akerman.
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New HOA law ousts arrested officers
Arrested developer resigns from Bimini Bay HOA
Article
Courtesy of The Orlando Sentinel
By
Mary Shanklin; Published
July 2, 2013
Beleaguered homeowner-association president David Meadows, who has been arrested twice for stealing from his half-built community's HOA, has resigned just as a new state law was about to force him out.
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New HOA law approved; Sen. Hays fulfills promise
Article
Courtesy of The Ocala Star Banner
By
Bill Thompson
Published
June 25, 2013
Some advocates for expanded homeowners’ rights are heartened by a new law that seeks to rein in some questionable, if not outright bad, practices by developers and homeowners associations.
Gov. Rick Scott on June 14 signed a wide-ranging reform bill affecting how HOAs operate, including new provisions covering record keeping, elections, on-site management and homeowners’ control of the community.
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New
member-friendly HOA requirements
Dealing with Homeowner Associations
Article
Courtesy of The Charlotte Sun
By
Steve Reilly
Published
June 21, 2013
A new state law outlines new requirements in how property and homeowner
associations conduct themselves. Selected highlights of the new legislation:
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State
Senator Alan Hays on Radio Talk Show CONDO CRAZE
&
HOA'S
ORIGINALLY
AIRED ON SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2013
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Senator
Alan Hays, sponsor of HOA REFORM
BILL
S 580, talks
with talk show host Eric Glazer,
Esq.
about this bill. You will hear a senator determined to
pass some owner-friendly legislation.
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Click
Here To LISTEN TO JUSTICE HOUR
WITH GUEST JAN BERGEMANN (Aired on April 9, 2013)
Talk
Show Host Lisa Macci and Guest Jan Bergemann discuss HOA
Horror Stories and the HOA REFORM BILL
Election
Monitor Nan Green on Radio Talk Show CONDO
CRAZE
& HOA'S
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Listen
to CONDO
CRAZE
&
HOA'S
taped on February 10, 2013. Election
Monitor Nan Green and
Radio Show host Eric Glazer are discussing the
process from requesting an election monitor to
the actual election. They discuss the need to
extend this service to homeowners'
associations in order to guarantee fair
elections.
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State Senator
Alan Hays proposes bill to reform homeowners associations
Article
Courtesy of The Ocala Star Banner
By
Bill Thompson
Published
February 11, 2013
State Sen. Alan Hays has proposed a wide-ranging bill designed to curb abuse within homeowners associations.
The Umatilla Republican seeks to empower state regulators to investigate residents’ complaints
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Proposed bill could make it easier for HOA's to foreclose on homes
Article and Video Courtesy of Channel 9 -- Orlando
By Lori Brown
Published February 8, 2013
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A bill filed by a local state lawmaker could make it easier and faster for homeowner associations to foreclose on people who haven't paid their HOA fees.
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Bill
lets HOAs foreclose fast if dues unpaid
A
bill filed by Senator Alan Hays could mean changes for HOA
fees.
Article
Courtesy of The Orlando Sentinel
By
Mary Shanklin
Published
February 7, 2013
Homeowners behind on their community-association dues would have to make good on the full amount before fighting the charges, under proposed legislation that would also bring state oversight to Florida's homeowner associations.
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