Category Archives: Florida
And We All Give Thanks
By coincidence the celebration of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving begin in the same few hours this year. And I am thankful for all my friends in many faiths… and even those who are skeptics. But you can all have faith in this: I respect you and am thankful for all of you.
Ward Lucas
WANTED: Hair Stylist With Tree Extension Experience
guest blog by Nila Ridings
If hair can be lengthened how about trees?
Quick! We need tree extensions in River Grove at Merritt Island, Florida before Pat Fitzgerald rips his Magnolias from the earth! His HOA is fining him $5000 because a couple of Magnolia trees he planted were too short. He’s already spent $1500 in an effort to mediate this idiotic dispute. Miracle Grow doesn’t work fast enough for this HOA board.
So, kiss those trees good-bye, Pat. Don’t you know you’ve destroyed all the property values in your neighborhood?
Turnberry Board Members Get The Tides Turned On Them!
by guest blogger, Nila Ridings
Oh Florida! What are we going to do with you? Are you having a contest to see which HOA board can act the stupidest?
Eighty homeowners are now without their trash and recycling containers because the board at Turnberry Reserve hired people to steal them right off the homeowners property!
I won’t be surprised if homeowners don’t turn the board member’s yards, porches, trees, landscaping, and cars into their local landfill site. That could include dirty diapers on “Welcome” mats, used tampons hanging like tree ornaments, and smiley-faced partially-eaten peanut butter sandwiches turned upside down on Lexus IS-350 chrome bumpers.
Lawyers Whining About Florida HOA Reform
Florida lawyers and HOA board members are in a snit because of a new state law designed to reign in dictatorial boards and embezzling board members.
The new law requires HOA boards to maintain records for seven years. It slashes the price HOAs can charge homeowners for copies of documents. HOA elections have to be fair and reasonable. Board members can no longer have those outrageous four hundred dollar apiece high-end meals they routinely force fellow homeowners to finance. But above all, board members have to have crime and fidelity insurance to prevent them from embezzling. And any board member charged with embezzling has to be immediately kicked off the board.
All common sense, right?