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PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE!
By
Jan Bergemann
Published April 10, 2020
I guess in the
moment we all have more time than money.
Getting bored at
home after Governor Ron DeSantis issued a STAY AT HOME
order?
Here is a
suggestion: Read the governing documents of your community and
study the Florida statutes regulating your association.
Its high time to
finally do what you should have done a long time ago: Preferably
when you moved into your home located within a community
association.
Knowing the Ins
and Outs of statutes and governing documents is
essential, especially if you plan on challenging the sitting
board and/or the management company after the pandemic is
finally in the history books.
I hope you are aware
that a bad board can easily ruin your personal finances, not
just the finances of your association: Remember: Your financial
welfare depends on good business decisions of the board and
many owners have lost their homes for example because the
board listened to bad advice from attorneys and/or management
companies and got involved in an expensive lawsuit. There is
barely any escape from the litigation vortex.
NEVER FORGET:
Your home is collateral for all the debts your association
occurs.
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Jan Bergemann is president of Cyber Citizens For Justice,
Florida
's largest state-wide property owners' advocacy group.
CCFJ works on legislation to help owners living in
community
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associations. He moved to
Florida
in 1995 - hoping to retire. He moved into a HOA, where the
developer cheated the homeowners and used the association dues
for his own purposes. End of retirement!
CCFJ was born in the year 2000, when some owners met in
Tallahassee
- finding out that power is only in numbers. Bergemann was a
member of Governor Jeb Bush's HOA Task force in 2003/2004.
The organization has two websites to inform interested
Florida
homeowners and condo owners:
News Website: http://www.ccfj.net/.
Educational Website: http://www.ccfjfoundation.net/.
We think that only owners can really represent owners, since all
service providers surely have a different interest! We are
trying to create owner-friendly laws, but the best laws are
useless without enforcement. And enforcement is totally lacking
in
Florida
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