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RETURNING
HOME
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published July 14, 2014
There
was lots of news last week about Lebron James coming back home
to
Cleveland
. Well….Lebron
isn’t the only person coming back home.
It’s happening in alarming numbers.
College graduates, graduate school graduates and even
some with professional licenses and degrees are returning home
to their parents in record numbers.
They are quickly learning that there aren’t enough jobs
out there, their student loans are now due and life is simply
very expensive. So…..for
the time being….they’re coming back home too.
What
does this mean for our
Florida
community associations? In
55 and over communities, the association is allowed to prevent
children from living in the community.
However, once you turn 18, you are no longer considered a
child. So…not even
55 and over communities can prevent families from reuniting.
The
housing crisis has also caused many extended families to live
together. Brothers,
sisters and cousins are living together as well.
As the population of our country ages, lots of kids are
now living with Grandma and Grandpa because long term care or
nursing homes are unaffordable as well.
Other
than perhaps not having enough parking spaces, it’s difficult
to see how this trend negatively effects community associations,
unless the youngsters start having late night loud parties with
loud music. It’s
true that this might indicate that perhaps for the first time in
our nation’s history, children are not expected to do as well
as their parents. But
in terms of association life, it may be interesting to
simultaneously have mahjong games, senior citizen clubs
and tot lots for the nursery school kids to play.
Have
any of you seen the trend or been part of the trend in coming
home? Mind sharing
some stories? What
does it say about the direction our country is heading?
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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 is currently entering his 20th year as a
Florida
lawyer practicing |
community association law and is the owner of
Glazer and Associates, P.A. an eight attorney law firm in
Orlando
and Hollywood. For the past two years 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 7,500 Floridians. He is certified as a
Circuit Court Mediator by The Florida Supreme Court and has
mediated dozens of disputes between associations and unit
owners. Finally, he recently argued the Cohn v. Grand
Condominium case before The Florida Supreme Court, which is
perhaps the single most important association law case decided
by the court in a decade.
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