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ARE
THINGS REALLY THAT BAD?
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published August 4, 2014
You
look around the world and see that bombs are falling in
neighborhoods throughout the Middle East, violent demonstrations
are happening in European countries and tornadoes and floods
seems to be destroying towns across the United States. Those are
difficult problems to live with day in and day out.
So here we are in Florida. Many of you
reading this column live in a beautiful home or condominium.
Many of you wake up to views on the ocean or a lake.
The sun always seems to be shining.
There’s no threat of your house being leveled by an
explosive today. There
won’t be any violent demonstrations in your town either.
So…..this begs the question……should we stop the
complaining and be thankful for what we got?
Week after week, not only here, but in blogs, newspaper
columns and TV shows across the country there are endless
debates about just how bad it is to live in a community
association. Words
like “concentration camps” often work their way into
descriptions of these communities.
But…..when you look around at what’s going on all
over the planet, are things really that bad in your Florida
condominium or homeowner’s association?
Do we complain too much and need to be more content with
what we have?
Remember that feeling when you first moved into your
condo or HOA? Admit
it. Most of you
thought you just bought your very own piece of heaven.
You were so proud. Doesn’t
anybody still have that feeling about their home, their
community, their neighbors?
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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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