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ARCHIVES 2015

IT’S LABOR DAY -- SIT BACK AND RELAX

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published September 7, 2015

It’s been a tradition for the last few years in this blog to talk about how various Presidents of their community association spend their Labor ...

PREPARATION IS EVERYTHING

By Jan Bergemann

Published September 4, 2015

ERIKA fizzled into nowhere – and here in Deland the remnants created less problems than a regular summer thunderstorm. Nevertheless ...

BE PREPARED! THE STORM IS COMING!

By Darlys Walker

Published September 2, 2015

Well it looks like most of Florida dodged the bullet as Tropical Storm Erica fizzled out, leaving us with just dreary rain and bad ...

HURRICANE HEADACHES

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published August 31, 2015

I actually wrote today’s blog on Friday morning while having coffee at Starbucks. As I write, Erika is somewhere near the ...

DO YOU REALLY CARE?

By Jan Bergemann

Published August 28, 2015

I help – often more than once a week – owners trying to recall their board members. A wide majority of these recalls are successful. I ...

MAKE A DECISION ALREADY!!!

By Darlys Walker

Published August 26, 2015

Being a Board Member is a tough, thankless job. There is no doubt about that! But you’ve been nominated or volunteered and you’ve ...

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published August 24, 2015

There are all kinds of Board members and all kinds of reasons to want to become a Board member. Maybe you think expenses ...

By Jan Bergemann

Published August 21, 2015

You wouldn’t believe all the stories I hear from owners about the presidents of the board of their associations. Even folks who ...

THE MAN OR WOMAN OF MY DREAMS

By Darlys Walker

Published August 19, 2015

I’m playing along with Eric and his question regarding what characteristics make up a good President. Let me give you the wish list from a ...

TELL US ABOUT YOUR PRESIDENT

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published August 17, 2015

The weekly blog has been dealing with a lot of tough issues lately. Whether or not birthdays of Lee and Davis should be state holidays, ...

By Jan Bergemann

Published August 14, 2015

Everybody involved in community associations is trying to find ways to make this new law work. Guess what: So far no solutions – not even ...

By Darlys Walker

Published August 12, 2015

Florida is jumping from the pan to the fire. That is exactly what I see with this new law allowing elective voting. The number of complaints .....

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published August 10, 2015

On Friday, I had the pleasure of being invited to attend a meeting of many representatives from the Department of Business and ...

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

By Jan Bergemann

Published August 7, 2015

Since many years we have been saying that knowledge is power. But: Where to get this knowledge? In case of community associations the answer ...

About HOA & Condo Blog

Eric Glazer graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 1992 after receiving a B.A. from NYU. He is currently entering his 20th year as a Florida lawyer practicing

community association law and is the owner of Glazer and Associates, P.A. an eight attorney law firm in Orlando and Hollywood. For the past two years Eric has been the host of Condo Craze and HOAs, a weekly one hour radio show 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 6,000 Floridians. He is certified as a Circuit Court Mediator by The Florida Supreme Court and has mediated dozens of disputes between associations and unit owners. Finally, he recently argued the Cohn v. Grand Condominium case before The Florida Supreme Court, which is perhaps the single most important association law case decided by the court in a decade.

Darlys Walker, Founder and CEO of Condominium Concepts Management, Inc. (CCM), is recognized for her straight talk, subject matter expertise, and valued insights regarding real

state management, leasing, and HOAs. Her company serves a diverse portfolio of properties, from 16-units up to 600 as well as large mixed-use developments.

From its beginnings in 2000, CCM has become a well-respected asset manager and now works with over 100 associations with 16,000 units served by over 300 employees. Darlys and her team deliver resources and responsiveness through six regional offices - in Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville, Charleston, Nashville and Atlanta.

Darlys Walker is best known for her passion and precision, understanding that the only difference that matters in today's demanding marketplace is service delivery ... doing what is promised and what is right. She knows that every community serves two masters ... the property owner/developer and the resident/homeowner. "If we are not equally responsive to both, we are not doing our job," she states.

Her clients say it best: "Darlys really knows her stuff" ... "at the top of her profession and it shows in the caliber of her clients" ... "delivers quality resources that match up well with needs and expectations that are really rigorous."

She is a licensed Real Estate Broker in four states, holds an Associate's Degree in Marketing and has earned the Accredited Real Estate Manager designation from the Georgia Institute of Real Estate Management. Also she is one of few certified as a Lead-Based Paint Abatement & Removal Trainer in Georgia.

Darlys Walker and her team have been selected to manage the condominium conversion process and day-to-day operations for many of the Southeast's most high-profile condominium communities including luxury high-rises, mid-rises and garden-style homes. Most recently she has been recognized as an expert in 're-versions' of communities from condominiums to leased homes, as well as repositioning projects. A visionary and a tireless perfectionist, Darlys demonstrates hands-on leadership, working individually with each client and staff associate to achieve defined business outcomes and satisfaction.

For more information about Darlys Walker and Condominium Concepts Management, Inc. please visit www.condominiumconcepts.com.

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 !