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Sept. 4, 2025 — Unfortunately, condo properties can go bankrupt. It happened back in the housing crisis of 2008-9 because many homeowners, who had lost their jobs or most of their income, defaulted on their HOA dues. The same danger exists for many condo properties in 2025, but for different…
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Category: Active adult communities
February 25, 2024 — Following up on our recent article about the issues that Keep HOA Boards of Directors up at night, here is the other side – the things that HOAs do that drive home owners crazy. Homeowners often have love-hate relationships with their Homeowners Associations (HOAs), but…
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
October 15, 2024 — As if Florida condo owners didn’t have enough to worry about. A deadly duo of hurricanes caused suffering and loss of human life. But Condo buildings 3 stories face other kinds of challenges, as December 31 deadlines for Florida’s stringent new engineering inspections and reserve studies…
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Category: Home Owners Associations
June 14, 2024 — If you ask someone why they won’t live in an active adult or 55+ community, a top reason will be that they don’t want to live under a controlling and arbitrary Home Owners Association (HOA, sometimes called Property Owners Associations). A new statute signed into law…
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
May 31, 2023 — Condo boards in Florida are reeling from a one-two punch. Quotes for insurance renewals are literally through the roof, and that is if the condo association can get coverage at all. Year to year rate hikes of 50% are common. The Jade Winds condo complex in…
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Category: Active adult communities
Update June, 2023 – In another development, Governor DeSantis recently signed the much anticipated Surfside Glitch Bill, SB 154, into law. The bill relieves some of the ambiguity in SB 154. It also provided relief for some provisions of the law such as allowing a Milestone Inspection to be provided…
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Category: Active adult communities
March 10, 2022 – In a move that is sure to be controversial, a softball commissioner at the Del Webb Village at Deaton Creek has banned Linda Evans, a female, from participating on a men’s softball team at that community. Ms. Evans, 70 years young, is an experienced player, whose…
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Category: Active adult communities
January 4, 2020 — When people hear about Home Owners Associations (HOA) there is generally one of two reactions. Either they loathe them, citing high costs and restrictive rules, or they tolerate them as a necessary evil. They have no super fans. Also called Community Associations, HOAs govern critical aspects…
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Category: Active adult communities
November 13, 2021 — The Associated Press reports that a judge has ordered the giant Solivita 55+ community in Poinciana, FL to pay back homeowners $35 million for improper HOA fees. The case arises from a proposal by the developer to sell various amenities including a clubhouse, swimming pools,…
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Category: Active adult communities
Note: We are once again grateful to Joe West of the Community Associations Network, LLC, for helping us research this topic. July 10, 2021 — The collapse of Champlain Towers South near Miami, built in 1981, has made owners and buyers nervous. The dream of…
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