HARD-WORKING BOARD MEMBERS DESERVE A BIG THANK-YOU!

By Jan Bergemann

Published September 9, 2016

Last Monday was Labor Day – and we shouldn’t forget to thank all the hard-working Board members trying to do their best to keep the communities in great shape – and protect our  property values by doing an excellent job.

We always hear – and talk about – about all the dictatorial board members with private agendas who squander our money. The media is full of reports about all the problems these kind of board members are causing in communities all over the nation.

Reading all these ugly headlines day for day we often forget the many volunteers who give many hours of their free time to make sure that all goes well in our associations.

In a society where lying, cheating, scams and kickbacks seem to be considered part of daily life – and seems to be totally acceptable by many members of Florida’s law enforcement community, it’s actually not easy to be a “good” board member.

Temptations to become a bad board member are huge; bribes and kickbacks are only all too common. From expensive cruises to free lawn care – we have seen it all. People from up North, at first disgusted by these methods of doing business here in Florida , seem to get accustomed to these Southern “habits” after a while – “it’s just the way they are doing business down here!”

It is not – and it shouldn’t be! It just shows that we should thank the “honest” volunteers even more. It’s pretty difficult to do things right in our community associations, considering the vague statutes and the many rules supposed to regulate our community associations. Don’t forget, there is no course named “101 Community Association Management” in schools and/or colleges. Good interpretations of existing rules and laws are hard to come by, because the interpretations of the rules by the so-called professionals vary widely – it often depends on who you are asking.

No matter what, some of these volunteers should be sentenced to HARD LABOR, while the majority of our community association board members should be praised and thanked -- for all the hard labor they are investing on a daily basis in our communities!

Thank you!


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Jan Bergemann 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  

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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