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AND NOW THE FLIP SIDE
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published September 12, 2016
Last week’s Labor Day blog was devoted to
those officers and directors who truly give their heart and soul
to the communities they serve. In my 25 years of practicing law
I have been privileged to represent many such a devoted person.
But then there’s the flip side…
What do I mean by the flip side? I mean dead
wood. Someone taking up space. Someone who simply wants their
name on the letterhead of the association but basically wants no
part in helping anyone do anything. The ones who never have an
idea of their own, criticize those that do have ideas and often
go along with the majority simply to get along.
The ones that no matter how bad the place
looks will always say that the place looks great. There’s never
a need to fix anything, there’s never a need to modernize, and
the monthly assessment should be the same amount as it was in
1964.
You know, the ones who wouldn’t want to spend
a dime on an exterminator even if the place was overrun by
locusts. The same ones who think putting out water buckets is a
better alternative than repairing the roof. The ones that would
call a sinkhole a small pothole that you can easily drive
around. The ones that would call a hole in the roof a beautiful
view of the sky. The ones that think paying insurance is for
suckers. The ones that think a landscaper is a waste of money
and that everyone should just grab a lawnmower and a pair of
scissors each weekend. The ones that think professional
management is a waste of money and that keeping track of who is
paying the assessments by paper and pencil is simply the more
accurate way.
The ones who think the less the owners know,
the better. The ones who think security isn’t necessary despite
residents being afraid to walk out of their homes. The ones who
think cable TV and the internet are a waste of money and we
should pick up a book instead. The ones who think the swimming
pool doesn’t need to be fixed because winter is eventually
coming to South Florida. You know, the ones who don’t want to
spend a dime on anything.
Do any of you know any of these directors?
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About
HOA & Condo Blog
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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
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decades and is the owner of Glazer
and Associates, P.A. a seven attorney law firm with offices in
Fort Lauderdale and Orlando and satellite offices in Naples,
Fort Myers and Tampa.
Since 2009, Eric has been the host
of Condo Craze and HOAs, a weekly one hour radio show that airs
at noon each Sunday 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 10,000
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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