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DO WE HAVE MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR?
By
Jan Bergemann
Published November 18, 2022
I hope you and your families had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
I am normally very much into positive thinking, but this year I
don’t think we have to have much to be thankful for.
Let’s be thankful that we live in Florida. We are doing a lot
better than most other states in the Union.
But that’s about it!
In short: Our “glorious” government in Washington screwed
up about everything they were able to screw up. I hope that all
of you were all able to afford visiting family and friends as
planned. The cost of traveling has gone sky-high and I really
have to laugh when our morons in Washington claim that the price
of gas has gone down in recent weeks. This reminds me of the
special offers of many stores: 50% DISCOUNT (after adding
200% to the regular price). Let’s see: On January 16, 2021 our
gas-station at the corner charged $2.04.9 for regular gas. Now
they are charging $3.49.9 for regular. Does that mean the price
went down?
And if you had family and friends visiting and wanted to put on
a nice Thanksgiving feast you had to wonder about the food
prices – if you were lucky enough to get everything you wanted
to buy!
Many folks living in hi-rise condo associations are still
wondering how to pay for all the cost added to the monthly
maintenance fees by the recently enacted CONDO SAFETY BILL.
Many families are asking: Can we afford the monthly bills or do
we have to sell to avoid foreclosure?
On a positive note: Let’s hope it is getting better in the near
future and we can say a lot more positive things next year on
Thanksgiving!
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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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