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IT’S NOT GENDER – IT’S BUSINESS SAVVY!
By
Jan Bergemann
Published
June 26, 2015
All these days – like Father’s Day – are nice, but have in
recent years been turned into a money-pit. Congrats to all
fathers – you deserve it! The bad part: Getting bombarded with
ads weeks before the actual Father’s Day!
That still leaves us with the question: Do male or females make
better association board members?
I don’t believe that gender gives us an answer to this question.
I don’t think it has anything to do with the fact that the board
member is male or female!
The important part is not the gender – it’s BUSINESS SAVVY!
Property owners have to understand that a community association
is nothing else than a business – often with a pretty huge
budget where complicated issues have to be decided by board
members who are volunteers.
If you are looking to elect good board members, you better check
the background of the candidates before voting for them.
Chose candidates who have business experience and are –
hopefully – experienced in decision making. That makes good
board members.
A cute face – or long legs – don’t really help when serious
decisions have to be made!
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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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