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LABOR DAY STORY – TRUTH OR FICTION?
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published September 1, 2014
It’s Labor Day and condo President Esa Nomyjob, has the
day off from work. She
gets to stay home from work and simply enjoy all the wonderful
amenities her condo has to offer.
It’s well deserved.
The day starts off though with a call from Willie Winer,
that the upstairs neighbor has apparently let the bathtub
overflow again, causing his ceiling to fall down again, and
forcing Esa to get in touch with a plumbing company for an
emergency repair. So
much for a relaxing morning, but there’s still plenty of time
to enjoy the day.
Esa grabs a towel and heads for the pool.
Even though it’s a no-pet community, there’s a
gigantic pit bull dog that unit owner Alla Boutme, claims is her
new fluffy emotional support animal. Alla never filled out any
forms requesting the dog of course.
Despite the fact that the county doesn’t even allow pit
bulls, Esa heard about the new court case that allows pit bulls
to be considered fluffy emotional support animals.
Rather than risk being mauled, Esa starts to head back
upstairs. Bad move.
Ima Blowhard, unit owner, sees Esa and immediately starts
screaming about the price of the laundry machines going up
another 25 cents. Of
course, in front of everyone else he accuses Esa of stealing the
quarters from the machines.
After all, how did she get that fancy new car.
Esa denies going to the Cadillac dealership with rolls of
quarters.
Esa is starting to think she was better off working today
than having the day off. As
a last ditch effort to relax, she grabs her Kindle and heads off
to her balcony to simply read and listen to the sounds of nature
and enjoy her picturesque view.
That’s when next door neighbor Harda Hearing decides to
do the same thing. Except,
Harda likes hard rock music and brings her I-Pad and speakers
out on her balcony, making the building shake.
Esa has to politely remind Harda about the nuisance
provisions in the governing documents.
Harda starts screaming about the condo not being a
prison.
Poor Esa. Her
last mistake was grabbing her mail.
There it was, an angry letter from yet another unit
owner, Charlie Cheapskate, complaining about all the money the
Board spent fixing the elevator.
Charlie threatens to sue Esa personally because he lives
on the first floor and doesn’t ride the stinking elevator.
Esa lays down in her bed looking forward to getting back
to work tomorrow.
(Dedicated
to all those Board members who work so hard throughout the year.
Don’t stay home today – get as far away from the
condo or HOA as possible)
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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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