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ARCHIVES 2019

By Rafael Aquino

Published November 13, 2019

Preparing for an election is a serious business if you want to do it right. Depending on the size of your association, the ...

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COME REAL QUICK PRE-ELECTION TIPS
By Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published November 11, 2019
Here we go……We are headed into election season. It’s a little harder to run an election in a condo than in an HOA, ...

By Jan Bergemann

Published November 8, 2019

The horror stories I’m hearing about developers are often outrageous. Some of these developers are working ...

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READ YOUR DOCS!

By Rafael Aquino

Published November 6, 2019

As Eric mentioned on Monday, certain HOA docs do have language that requires new owners to contribute to the ...

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IT’S BETTER TO BE THE DEVELOPER IN AN HOA -- PART II

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published November 4, 2019\Last week we showed how it’s better to be the developer in an HOA instead of an ...

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CARTE BLANCHE FOR HOA DEVELOPERS?

By Jan Bergemann

Published November 1, 2019

If you look at FS 720 (HOA ACT) it looks like the Florida Legislature is giving developers of HOA communities ...

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LET’S LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD

By Rafael Aquino

Published October 30, 2019

While I can appreciate a developer needing to have control of a project while sales reach a certain volume, I also ... Read more...

IT’S BETTER TO BE THE DEVELOPER IN AN HOA

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published October 28, 2019

When it comes to Florida Statute 720, there’s no question that you would rather be the developer than the ...

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IGNORANCE RUINS WHOLE COMMUNITIES

By Jan Bergemann

Published October 25, 2019

Not only dictators can financially ruin whole communities, but so can the ignorance of board members. It’s amazing ..

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UNITED WE ARE STRONGER!

By Rafael Aquino

Published October 23, 2019

Florida is the largest state with Community Associations, out of the 13 million voters, 9.5 million residents live within...

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published October 21, 2019

We all know that condo and HOA board members must get certified within ninety (90) days of getting on to their ...

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“DESIGNATED ITEMS”?

By Jan Bergemann

Published October 18, 2019

Supposedly these laws are written by knowledgeable legal experts, but even a layman starts wondering about ...

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It’s all in the approach…

By Rafael Aquino

Published October 16, 2019

The challenges of being in the minority of a Board of Directors can be challenging and frustrating at times...

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published October 14, 2019

So you ran for the Board because you were tired of the board members ignoring your requests to discuss certain issues...

By Jan Bergemann

Published October 11, 2019

Let’s face it: The Florida Statutes regulating community associations plainly suck. They are ANTI-OWNER, ...

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CHANGE IS NEEDED!

By Rafael Aquino

Published October 9, 2019

Eric, Jan, and I have been saying it for years now... FS720 needs to m irror FS718. The changes we are ...

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ARCHIVES 2019

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.

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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

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 !