ARCHIVES 2024
DOES A DEVELOPER ALWAYS HAVE THE ABILITY
TO TERMINATE A CONDO?
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published August 5, 2024
Let me tell
you what you should be looking for in your condominium documents
after you stop reading this: the provisions ...
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NO REGULATORY AGENCY FOR HOAs?
By
Jan Bergemann
Published
August 2, 2024
Since the
HOA TASK FORCE convened in 2003-2004 we have been asking
the Florida Legislature to add HOAs to the jurisdiction ...
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THE LEGISLATIVE
DISPARITY: HOAs vs CONDOS
By
Rafael Aquino
Published July 31, 2024
When
discussing the regulation of community associations, it is
impossible to overlook the disparity in legislative oversight ...
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AND WHAT ABOUT HOAs?
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published July 29, 2024
When our blog was published last week about the new powers of
the DBPR, some owners in HOAs really were ...
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IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE DIVISION!
By
Jan Bergemann
Published July
26, 2024
Looking at the new Condo Laws (FS 718) it seems that the Florida
legislators was sick and tired of hearing complaints ...
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INCREASED POWERS FOR THE
DBPR: A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD
By
Rafael Aquino
Published July 24, 2024
The recent expansion of powers granted
to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR)
marks a significant ...
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THE DBPR HAS LOTS OF NEW POWER – WILL
THEY USE IT?
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published July 22, 2024
There have
been lots of complaints over the years that when condominium
owners bring their complaints to the DBPR and ...
MANDATORY EDUCATION – FOR FREE!
By
Jan Bergemann
Published July 19, 2024
Now everybody has to attend seminar, if you are – or want to become
– a board member. And so do community association ...
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A TRIUMPH IN LEGISLATION
By
Rafael Aquino
Published July 17, 2024
For years,
I have been a staunch advocate for requiring HOA board members to
attend a course before serving on a community...
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MANDATORY EDUCATION IS HERE AND SO ARE
THE CLASSES
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published July 15, 2024
We fought
long and we fought hard, but we got what we wanted;
mandatory education for all condo board members ...
FLYING FLAGS IN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS?
By
Jan Bergemann
Published July
12, 2024
What flags can you fly
if you live in one of Florida’s countless community associations?
That’s a question many courts ...
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THE CHALLENGE OF
DECISION-MAKING IN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS
By
Rafael Aquino
Published July 10, 2024
Leadership
in community associations often involves navigating complex and
contentious issues that can stir strong ...
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WHICH FLAG CAN YOU FLY?
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published July 8, 2024
I
hope everyone had a great 4th of July long weekend.
More than any other day of the year, it certainly is the day to
fly the flag ...
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MORE NEW LAWS!
By
Jan Bergemann
Published July
5, 2024
The Florida
Legislature enacted this year lots of bills dealing with community
association rules and living. Everybody ...
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IMPACT OF
HB 293: A CALL TO ACTION FOR BOARDS & ARC COMMITTEES
By Rafael Aquino
Published July 3, 2024
With the recent passing of HB 293, Homeowners Associations (HOAs)
and Architectural Review Committees (ARCs) must ...
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more...
SOME OTHER
NEW ASSOCIATION LAWS
By Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published July 1, 2024
While not the ones that got the most attention, there were a few
other bills that were signed into law by the Governor ...
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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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Suite 200
Doral, FL 33166
Broward Office: 150 S Pine Island RD Suite 300
Plantation, FL 33324
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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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