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LOTS OF NEW COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LAWS
By
Jan Bergemann
Published May 21, 2021
This year’s legislative session
created lots of new provisions in the community association
statutes.
Especially
SB 630 -- Community
Associations (Senator Dennis Baxley) creates lots of new
provisions and changes to existing statutes. The bill, 101 pages
long, makes changes to Condos, Co-Ops and HOAs. Our Legislative
Affairs Committee Chair Milena is working hard to figure all
these new provisions out, trying to explain what it all means
for us owners.
As usual: There is good and there is
bad. In 21 years I have never seen a bill enacted in Tallahassee
that contained only owner-friendly provisions.
But: Let’s never give up HOPE!
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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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