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RULES,
RULES, RULES
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published July 7, 2014
Last week we blogged about how apathy can harm a
community in many different ways.
Everyone’s comments were great.
This week I want to take the conversation in the opposite
direction. Is it a
good idea for the Board or community to be zealous or perhaps
overly zealous in enforcing the governing documents and/or
creating rules and regulations that many say sterilize a
community? Are there
rules and regulations that are simply “on the books” but
should not be enforced? Does
strict enforcement of the rules lead to an increase in value of
the homes or condos, as claimed by every condo or HOA President
ever known for being a disciplinarian in their community?
Or…..is that just a line they throw out to justify
their crack down in the community?
What are some of the
rules that you think are not justified, silly, harmful or just
not worth the paper they’re written on?
For example…..everyone must park their car with the
front end facing the same way.
Some people like to back in.
Does it matter? Should
you be towed for backing in?
That’s just one example.
What about leaving your garbage cans out over night?
Remember the HOA fiasco last year when the Board stole
everyone’s garbage cans? Was
that the right thing to do?
What is reasonable and what isn’t?
Nobody would argue
that there needs to be some rules and regulations in place in
order to keep the property looking good.
However, are some rules simply stupid and not worth the
fight?
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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 is currently entering his 20th year as a
Florida
lawyer practicing |
community association law and is the owner of
Glazer and Associates, P.A. an eight attorney law firm in
Orlando
and Hollywood. For the past two years 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 7,500 Floridians. He is certified as a
Circuit Court Mediator by The Florida Supreme Court and has
mediated dozens of disputes between associations and unit
owners. Finally, he recently argued the Cohn v. Grand
Condominium case before The Florida Supreme Court, which is
perhaps the single most important association law case decided
by the court in a decade.
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