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MEMORIES OF MOTHER’S DAYS PAST
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published May 11, 2015
A happy and healthy belated Mother’s Day to every mother reading
today’s blog. Many of you already know that I grew up in a
co-op in Brooklyn consisting of 4 buildings, each with 60
families. Mother’s Day I remember as something special. The
weather was finally getting warmer. We would eat lunch or
dinner in a local restaurant, but then at night, all of the
neighbors, the adults and the kids, would all be outdoors,
sitting on benches, playing in the street, enjoying truly great
times. Someone had the ball game on the radio and we would root
for the Mets or Yankees. Fun, care-free days.
Yesterday, I spent Mother’s Day in a condo in
Tamarac. After the family was finger printed, subject to a
strip search, passed the background check, sat for the
interview and paid the required fee, we were allowed to rent
out one of the party rooms for a few hours. That is, if we
promised to keep the noise down. We still had a great time even
though we were forced to promise to return the room in spic and
span condition, and had to pay yet another lawyer to review the
various waiver forms we were asked to sign. My ten year old
refused to sign.
Instead of listening to the ball game on a
transistor radio, there was a giant flat screen TV we had access
to off to the side. The Mets or Yankees weren’t on, but The
Miami Marlins were. I wasn’t surrounded by all of the
neighbors, only the family. Of course, I wasn’t the child any
longer either but had my own kids and of course a wife who was
celebrating Mother’s Day.
The passage of time makes you look back, reflect and
often times wonder how things got so different. Last night,
still feeling nostalgic, I played around on the internet and
found out that the owner of the management company that managed
my Brooklyn co-op was indicted and did time for receiving kick
backs on window contracts from contractors. Board members
received them too.
Even though I’m a little older, a little grayer and
far away from the city of my youth, I certainly realize that the
old adage is true. The more things change……the more they stay
the same.
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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 eight
attorney law firm with offices in Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and
Naples.
The
firm also has satellite offices in Tampa and Fort Myers.
Since 2009, 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 8,000 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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