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NEW
YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS – QUICKLY FORGOTTEN?
By
Jan Bergemann
Published
January 9, 2015
Most
New Year’s resolutions are quickly forgotten. Remember the
times when you made resolutions like: Stop Smoking, Stop
Drinking too much, losing weight or doing more exercise?
If you are honest you will have to admit that most of these
resolutions were quickly forgotten. Have you ever followed up on
such a resolution for longer than a month?
Honestly: I never did! It all sounds good on New Year, but when
reality catches up with your resolution the best intentions go
quickly down the drain.
But
could I please ask you to not discard a resolution you all
hopefully made this year: Help pushing the HOA
REFORM BILL through the
Florida
legislature.
This
bill is important for the welfare of millions of Floridians
living in mandatory homeowners’ associations. Homeowners are
supposed to follow the rules outlined in FLORIDA
STATUTES 720 – but how good is a law without
teeth?
Make no mistake: In the moment enforcing these laws is a matter
of money – and if you have unlimited funds like HOAs have, the
winner of a lawsuit is easily predictable: The winner is the
party with the longest financial breath.
Is
that a system that we would like to see in the “
LAND
OF
THE FREE
?”
If
not, please keep the above resolution in mind until May of this
year – and help us getting FAIRNESS BACK INTO FLORIDA’S
HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATIONS!
HAPPY
NEW YEAR!
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Jan Bergemann is president of Cyber Citizens For Justice,
Florida
's largest state-wide property owners' advocacy group.
CCFJ works on legislation to help owners living in
community
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associations. He moved to
Florida
in 1995 - hoping to retire. He moved into a HOA, where the
developer cheated the homeowners and used the association dues
for his own purposes. End of retirement!
CCFJ was born in the year 2000, when some owners met in
Tallahassee
- finding out that power is only in numbers. Bergemann was a
member of Governor Jeb Bush's HOA Task force in 2003/2004.
The organization has two websites to inform interested
Florida
homeowners and condo owners:
News Website: http://www.ccfj.net/.
Educational Website: http://www.ccfjfoundation.net/.
We think that only owners can really represent owners, since all
service providers surely have a different interest! We are
trying to create owner-friendly laws, but the best laws are
useless without enforcement. And enforcement is totally lacking
in
Florida
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