MANDATORY EDUCATION – FOR FREE!

By Jan Bergemann

Published July 19, 2024

 

Now everybody has to attend seminar, if you are – or want to become – a board member. And so do community association managers – but not if they have a license for more than ten (10) years. Not sure who came up with such nonsense?

 

But as soon as the bills containing the provisions for mandatory education were signed by the Governor, folks smelling money were quick to offer the required seminars, but charging money to attend. Some prices are reasonable, but some are pretty outrageous.

 

There are still lots of seminars available for free. See attorney Eric Glazer’s schedule for his great seminars – he even answers questions from attendees – and you get a free lunch on top of it.

 

The Miami-Dade community college is working on offering free seminars – schedules to be announced in the near future.

 

I don’t think that board members should attend costly seminars and charge the cost to the association. Owners who want to run for the board and want to state that they already attended the necessary seminars in their resume, can’t charge the cost to the association. Neither do owners, who want to educate themselves and want to learn all about community association statutes in order to protect the biggest investment of their life.

 

Don’t forget: KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! Make sure you know enough about rules and regulations governing the association you are living in.

 

Remember: Power corrupts – and more power corrupts even more!

 

Make sure you educate yourself so you know everything about statutes, rules and regulations in order to prevent board members and community association managers abusing the powers given to them!


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Jan Bergemann

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  

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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