ARCHIVES 2024
TRANSPARENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY
By
Rafael Aquino
Published April 10, 2024
The adoption of House Bill 1203
represents a transformative moment for homeowners' associations (HOAs)
in Florida, ...
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HOUSE BILL 1203 -- CONTINUED
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published April 8, 2024
Week after week we are telling owners in both condos and HOAs of
new rights regarding access to records, financial ...
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CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS IN HOAs?
By
Jan Bergemann
Published
April 5, 2024
The Hammocks case made it possible:
HB 1203 is making criminal investigations in homeowners’
associations much ...
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OPEN FOR ALL MEMBERS
By
Rafael Aquino
Published April 3, 2024
In today's world, everyone needs to be
able to see what's going on, especially in Homeowners Associations (HOAs)...
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WHEN
LAW ENFORCEMENT WANTS THE ASSOCIATION’S RECORDS
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published April 1, 2024
An HOA here in South Florida recently fought the State
Attorney’s Office tooth and nail when they attempted to ..
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HB 1203 – BOARD MEMBERS BEWARE!
By
Jan Bergemann
Published March
29, 2024
In the past board members were
pretty much protected against prosecution other than embezzlement of
funds. That might ...
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EMBRACING DIGITAL SOLUTIONS IN
HOA MANAGEMENT
By
Rafael Aquino
Published March 27, 2024
The introduction of HB 1203 underlines a critical shift towards
accountability and transparency, particularly concerning ...
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FROM NOW ON………HOA DIRECTORS ARE ON THE RADAR AS WELL
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published March 25, 2024
There’s no question that 2024 will be remembered as the year
that both HOA and Condominium law were jolted. This ...
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CAMs ARE UNDER MORE SCRUTINY
By
Jan Bergemann
Published March 22, 2024
Eric described in his blog on Monday the relatively easy parts
of HB 1203 for CAMs to follow – more education, participation
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NEW WAVE OF REGULATIONS
By
Rafael Aquino
Published March 20, 2024
Recently, there has been a noticeable trend in the proliferation of
laws and regulations governing homeowners' associations ...
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HB 1203: LOTS OF NEW PROTECTIONS FOR MEMBERS LIVING IN HOAs MAKES IT HARDER FOR CAMs
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published March 18, 2024
House Bill 1203 and SB 7044 merged to eventually create a huge
bill for the protection of homeowners in HOAs. It starts
...
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HB 293 – DUBBED THE “GENERATOR
BILL”!
By
Jan Bergemann
Published March
15, 2024
We live in Florida, meaning we know
that we get hit by a hurricane, we just don’t know when! That tells
us that we have ...
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NECESSARY CHANGES FOR OUR
COMMUNITY'S SAFETY & COMFORT
By
Rafael Aquino
Published March
13, 2024
The passage of HB 293
represents a pivotal step in ensuring our residents' safety and
comfort, especially during the unpredictable...
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NEW LAWS KEEP COMING. HOA OWNER HAVE RIGHT TO BE SAFE AND COOL
OFF
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published March 11, 2024
Until now there
was no law in our Florida HOAs that would allow a home owner
to install their own electrical generator with ...
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About
HOA & Condo Blog
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Eric Glazer graduated from
the University of Miami School of Law in 1992 after
receiving a B.A. from NYU. He has practiced community
association law for more than 2
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decades and is the owner of Glazer
and Associates, P.A. a seven attorney law firm with offices in
Fort Lauderdale and Orlando and satellite offices in Naples,
Fort Myers and Tampa.
Since 2009, Eric has been the host of
Condo Craze and HOAs, a weekly one hour radio show that airs at noon
each Sunday 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 10,000 Floridians all across the state. He is
certified as a Circuit Court Mediator by The Florida Supreme Court
and has mediated dozens of disputes between associations and unit
owners. Eric also devotes significant time to advancing legislation
in the best interest of Florida community association members.
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As the Co-Founder and CEO
of Affinity Management Services, Rafael P. Aquino leads his team to
redefine excellence. They serve community associations
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and effectively with
dedication and passion. Rafael’s energy and positive
spirit is the foundation of Affinity Management
Services’ company culture, which instills enthusiasm and
excitement when providing expert advice to its board
members and relieving the day-to-day burdens of running
a community association.
Since 2007, Rafael has
developed a work culture that values responsive and
high-quality services. He has led his team by following
a proactive vs reactive philosophy. The same approach
Rafael instills in the day to day operations of each
association. Today, Affinity Management Services
maintains its success and benefits as a result of the
foundation Rafael has built and continues to foster by
providing educational seminars, continuing education
classes for association managers and board members
alike.
Rafael and his team help condominium and homeowners’
associations save money and improve their communities.
His calm, personable, and service-oriented nature helps
him to establish strong relationships with ease. Rafael
is known as a sincere and honest leader who looks out
for the best interests of his clients and communities,
and he strongly advocates for their needs. His role
requires coordination and communication, as such he
takes logical and intelligent steps to approach
challenges head-on.
As a graduate of Florida International University’s
electrical engineering program and a licensed community
association manager, Rafael’s education and skills equip
him with unique insights to tackle complex problems
through critical thinking. He understands how each
component within a system works together in order to
effectively arrive at solutions, techniques, and
conclusions. Therefore, as he manages the multiple
challenges of running a community association management
company, he understands how each property is its own
unique system and tailors’ specific services to assure
that all their needs are met.
For more information about Rafael P. Aquino and Affinity
Management Services please visit
www.ManagedByAffinity.com or call 1-800-977-6279.
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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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