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Happy
New Year!
By
Jan Bergemann
Published
January 3, 2014
I
wish you all a HAPPY
NEW YEAR – wishing that all our “dreams” for the
year 2014 come true!
I would like to thank all of you for reading our blog (49,037 visitors on the Home Page during the year 2013) and visiting
our websites. We never had such heavy “traffic” like last
year – I actually had to increase the allowed traffic usage
for the CCFJ websites. Thank you all for supporting our
cause! The numbers speak for themselves!
Now
that the holidays are over we can slowly – but surely –
return to our normal lives – right?
We
have a BIG AGENDA for
the year 2014 –
lots to do and a lot of work ahead of us. Part II of the HOA
REFORM BILL will headline our agenda for 2014. We
again hired the services of Richard Pinsky from Akerman
Senterfitt, who did in years past an excellent job of pushing
our agenda in Tallahassee
. But he can only be effective if we all help by contacting our
legislators and promote our bill. We will never be able to
outspend the opposing industry – we still need
lots of donations to pay for our cost of lobbying for the
bill – but our power is in numbers. Meaning: We all need to
participate!
My
wish to all of you: Contact your local legislators and the
legislators sitting on committees that will hear our bill. A lot
is at stake for all
members of mandatory community associations. Not only are we
trying to put mandatory HOAs – regulated by FS
720 – under the jurisdiction of the Division of
Florida Condominiums, Homeowners’
Associations, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes, we will
as well attempt to lower the annual fees for all homes and
condo-units from $4
to $2. There will be
still enough funds in the Trust Fund to create a “Cadillac”
of a regulatory agency that will take care of much needed
consumer-protection in
Florida
!
A lot of work is ahead of us in 2014 – let’s do it!
I wish you all a HAPPY
and SUCCESSFUL YEAR 2014!
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