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JOIN
US ON NOVEMBER 15TH
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published November 7, 2016
As you all know by now,
condo and HOA directors must get certified within one year prior
to getting elected or appointed to the board or within 90 days
of actually getting elected or appointed to the Board. They can
do so in one of two ways. The first way is the chicken’s way out
and quite frankly is an embarrassing loophole in the law. The
law actually allows you to sign an affidavit which basically
states that you have read your association’s governing documents
and that:
“he or she will work to
uphold such documents and policies to the best of his or her
ability; and that he or she will faithfully discharge his or her
fiduciary responsibility to the association’s members.”
You already know how I
feel about anyone who signs the affidavit instead of taking a
course, and whether or not they should be serving on your Board.
Thank heavens that the law
provides that you can also get certified by taking a DBPR
approved course. I fought hard four years ago to ensure that HOA
members had the ability to get certified by attending these
classes and am very proud of helping to pass legislation which
did just that. I am also proud to say that I have taught the
course to approximately 12,000 of you all across the state. At
each class, not only do the attendees learn something, but I do
as well. So do the attorneys in my firm. Your questions always
help raise awareness to so many issues and often times you
provide practical answers to what may seem like complicated
issues. The bottom line is that we all learn from each other.
Whether the issue is
budgets, reserves, insurance, year-end financial reporting, your
fiduciary responsibilities as board members, the election
process, foreclosures, suspension of rights, access to records,
arbitration, mediation or even if the new laws that get passed
each year apply in your association (the answer may surprise
you), we really try to cover it all and a lot more.
Our course not only certifies directors, but
also provides Legal Update and Continuing Education continuing
education credits for community association managers. It’s great
to see so many Board members take the course together with their
manager. We always serve food and drink, we have assemble a
panel of experts to answer your questions, the setting is always
first class, and best of all….it’s completely free. You even
leave with a summary of everything we just taught.
Join us on November 15th, 2016 at the
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood. Doors open at
6:00 p.m. We will be serving food and you get to meet all of our
sponsors. Seminar starts promptly at 7:00 p.m.
In order to register, just go to:
http://www.condocrazeandhoas.com/certification_main.php .
Or……just download our Condo
Craze App on your I-Phone or Android device– and just click on
the “Register for Our Seminars” Tab. Once registered, you
will get an e-mail confirmation. I really look forward to
another year of meeting all of you. It is a true honor and
privilege.
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About
HOA & Condo Blog
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Eric Glazer graduated from
the University of Miami School of Law in 1992 after
receiving a B.A. from NYU. He has practiced community
association law for more than 2
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decades and is the owner of Glazer
and Associates, P.A. a seven attorney law firm with offices in
Fort Lauderdale and Orlando and satellite offices in Naples,
Fort Myers and Tampa.
Since 2009, Eric has been the host
of Condo Craze and HOAs, a weekly one hour radio show that airs
at noon each Sunday on 850 WFTL.
See:
www.condocrazeandhoas.com.
He is the first attorney in the
State of Florida that designed a course that certifies
condominium residents as eligible to serve on a condominium
Board of Directors and has now certified more than 10,000
Floridians all across the state. He is certified as a Circuit
Court Mediator by The Florida Supreme Court and has mediated
dozens of disputes between associations and unit owners. Eric
also devotes significant time to advancing legislation in the
best interest of Florida community association members.
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