ASSOCIATION CRIME IS ON THE RISE?

By Eric Glazer, Esq.

Published March 23, 2015

 

    We certainly blogged in the past about Board members and managers getting arrested for stealing association funds. I’m on record as previously saying that I didn’t think this area was more prone to arrests than say lawyers, doctors or politicians. I may have been wrong.

 

    I don’t know what’s going on, but just in the past few weeks, Board members and managers were arrested in Dade County for stealing items out of a unit, a Board member in Broward was arrested for getting paid by the association as a community association manager despite the fact he doesn’t have a license, and another HOA Board member in Polk County confessed to taking association monies to pay his mortgage.

 

    What in the world is going on?

 

   Why now? Is it because these cases seem to finally be getting the press they deserve? Has the problem always existed as bad as it is now?

 

   Was I wrong and the problem of disappearing money is more prevalent in community associations than anywhere else? Does the DBPR or FDLE need a Division devoted to investigation of community association crimes? What’s the best way to put a stop to all of this?


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About HOA & Condo Blog

Eric Glazer

Eric Glazer graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 1992 after receiving a B.A. from NYU. He has practiced community

association law for more than 2

decades and is the owner of Glazer and Associates, P.A. a seven eight attorney law firm with offices in Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Naples.

  

The firm also has satellite offices in Tampa and Fort Myers.   Since 2009, 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 8,000 Floridians all across the state. He is certified as a Circuit Court Mediator by The Florida Supreme Court and has mediated dozens of disputes between associations and unit owners. Eric also devotes significant time to advancing legislation in the best interest of Florida community association members.


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