THE FLORIDA HOA & CONDO BLOG

ARCHIVES 2024

GOOD BILLS WILL GO TO THE GOVERNOR’S DESK!

By Jan Bergemann

Published March 8, 2024

Today is the last day of the 2024 Legislative Session. And I have to say: I’M IMPRESSED. All the community association ...

By Rafael Aquino

Published March 6, 2024

Owning a home in a community means we all need to follow certain rules to live well together. House Bill 59 is about ...

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published March 4, 2024

So The Florida Legislature is only in session for another four days. Over the next few weeks we want to educate you about ...

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PARKING – OFTEN A TOTAL CHAOS

By Jan Bergemann

Published March 1, 2024

Parking has gotten chaotic – not only in community associations. A solution: There is none in my opinion. While families ...

By Rafael Aquino

Published February 28, 2024

As a community association management company, one of the most intricate aspects we deal with involves allocating ...

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A PARKING PRIMER

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published February 26, 2024

So many of our condominiums were built in the days that it was basically unheard of for a family to own more than one ...

By Jan Bergemann

Published February 23, 2024

The list of provisions in the statute that are not mediated or litigated is very small – or rather non-existing. I get daily e-mails ...

By Rafael Aquino

Published February 21, 2024

In the area of community living, whether it's a condominium or a homeowners association (HOA), the pathway to meaningful ...

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SO, WHAT AM I LEAVING OUT?

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published February 19, 2024

So when I wrote my blog last week asking people what their problems are, I couldn’t help but think about all of the issues ...

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DO THESE BILLS SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS?

By Jan Bergemann

Published February 16, 2024

Eric asked our readers on Monday: WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM? Maybe the Florida Legislature is actually trying ...

By Rafael Aquino

Published February 14, 2024

In my nearly twenty years managing condominiums and homeowners associations (HOAs), I've observed a discrepancy...

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HEY……………WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM?

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published February 12, 2024

Every week, Jan, Rafael and myself blog about the issues that affect all of you that live in community associations throughout ...

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PUNITIVE DAMAGES WILL WORK!

By Jan Bergemann

Published February 9, 2024

Many provisions were added to Florida Statutes 468.431-438 – the statutes regulating community association management, but...

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LEGISLATION THROUGH COERCION

By Rafael Aquino

Published February 7, 2024

The legislative proposals, HB1021 and SB1178, have ignited a meaningful conversation on improving operational...

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ARCHIVES 2024

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 has practiced community association law for more than 2

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.

As the Co-Founder and CEO of Affinity Management Services, Rafael P. Aquino leads his team to redefine excellence. They serve community associations efficiently

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.

Doral Office: 8200 NW 41^st ST

Suite 200

Doral, FL 33166

Broward Office: 150 S Pine Island RD Suite 300

Plantation, FL 33324

O: 800-977-6279 ● F: 305-325-4053

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 !