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EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMAL – REALLY?
By
Jan Bergemann
Published April 9, 2021
Let’s face it: There are many reasons why people buy into a
NO-PET community. One being: ALLERGIES AGAINST OUR FURY
FRIENDS. There are quite a few people who have serious
allergies and really suffer badly without regularly taking
pretty expensive medication – medication normally not paid by
healthcare insurance companies.
With other words: Our legislators are allowing folks with
medical conditions (proven or not) to infringe on the rights of
people who moved into a NO-PET community for medical reasons,
forcing them to buy expensive medications against their
allergies.
I always had pets – and I love our three cats. But I would have
never considered moving into a NO-PET community. NO-PET
communities were created for a reason: To allow people to live
in an environment without having to deal with their neighbors’
pets!
That leaves for me the question: WHO SHOULD MOVE?
The person who moved into a NO-PET community because of serious
allergies, or the person who moved into a NO-PET community only
to discover later that his “emotional health” requires a support
animal to make him or her feel better?
Or maybe there should be a law that requires owners who are in
need of an ESA but live in a NO-PET community to pay for the
medication their neighbors need to buy in order to fight their
allergies caused by the ESA?
Wouldn’t common sense favor such a solution?
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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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