ROC board members and managers have several opportunities to network and learn over the next few weeks:

• I’ll be speaking to our friends at EPROC (East Pasco Resident Owned Communities) at their monthly meeting at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, January 8 at the Emerald Pointe community in Zephyrhills.  
• On Monday, January 11, I’ll be

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Several managers of resident owned communities have asked me to discuss the recent Florida Supreme Court opinion concerning certain activities performed by non-lawyer CAMs.   
The Court was asked whether these activities, if performed by a non-lawyer community association manager, would constitute the “unlicensed practice of law”.   On May 14, 2015, the Court issued…

 Effective July 1, 2015, voting and the conduct of elections in resident owned communities in Florida may be done electronically.  There are numerous conditions that must be met before a unit owner can vote electronically–not the least of which is that the unit or parcel owner must consent to that electronic voting.
Earlier this year,…

I wanted to share two recent news stories and discuss a question raised in an email sent to my blog over the weekend. It’s always nice to read good things about the members of our ROC family and the efforts of some of the residents at Country Club Estates in Venice to encourage the display…

A much needed update to Florida’s laws governing service animals was signed into law yesterday (June 11, 2015). Here’s the link to the full text of House Bill 71 that shows the numerous revisions to Florida Statute Section 413.08. It appears that Florida’s lawmakers are taking some positive steps to combat what I’ve referred to…

 Florida’s lawmakers “tweaked” the provisions relating to ROC “fining committees” during the recent legislative session in Tallahassee.  In summary, condominium associations, cooperative associations, and mandatory homeowners’ associations now follow a similar process:

• The revisions now clarify that it is the “board of administration” (which most ROC’s refer to as the Board of Directors) that imposes

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