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Please read, sound familiar, is the same message nation wide.
The Lone Rangero in deed.
CCFJ, Inc, Dispatch -- Please Distribute Widely!
June 26 , 2006
Dear Governor, Florida Legislators, Friends and Members,
I've tried to say this for many years, but it seems legislators just
do not want to see the writing on the wall. More and more owners realize
that the concept is great, but the system as created -- without
accountability and easy enforcement of the laws -- fails the homeowners
-- miserably! Read below today's comment from the Florida Sun Sentinel.
It plainly says it all! Serious legislative changes are necessary if we
want to solve this growing problem! Band-aids won't do!
Warm Regards,
Jan Bergemann, President
Cyber Citizens For Justice, Inc.
http://www.ccfj.net/
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A good place to come home to?
SUN SENTINEL
By Wayne T. Moses
Posted June 26 2006
http://www.ccfj.net/HOAFLHOAHOME.html
The idea of creating homeowners associations is not new, but the way
it's done has changed in recent years, because service providers such
as management companies and attorneys have realized that these
associations are a great cash cow.
The reason: Legislators all around the nation created laws governing
HOAs -- ambiguous laws, easy to interpret any which way you want to
twist them and nearly unenforceable.
There is no accountability demanded of the people in charge, but they
have the money to fight you in a court of law -- right or wrong. Many
owners do not lose in court because they violated the laws and/or rules;
they lose because they plainly run out of money to fight for their
rights.
This opens the door for all kinds of shenanigans -- from just plain
power-hungry board members to greedy managers and attorneys. The money
is always there, and do not forget, your home is collateral for any
bills they create.
It is our responsibility as the owners to change that. We may not have
the finances the industry is putting up to defeat owner-friendly bills,
but we have the power of numbers. Together we have a chance to create
the necessary changes that will help us to turn our communities back
into friendly neighborhoods!
Our property values will not go up because we all have the same
beige-colored doors. Our communities will not get better because we all
have the same peach-colored shingles, or whatever color the board
president's wife likes. Our neighborhood will not be more neighborly
because the condo commando is running around with a notepad writing
violation notices for flowers with too bright colors in the front
yards.
And it surely doesn't improve our lifestyle if our board forecloses on
a family for small amounts of unpaid dues! Is that what our society
should stand for?
We need to get back to the better times when neighbors talked to
neighbors, communities helped families in need and everybody respected
each other as neighbors and human beings!
These better times will only return if we all work together to create
the laws that will stop most of these shenanigans.
United, we can convince our legislators that they need to create the
laws and enforcement of such laws that help to make our communities
good places to come home to! Everyone's help is needed to help us
achieve our goal: fairness in all associations.
Dr. Wayne T. Moses lives in Boca Raton and is the President of The
Humanitarian Society, Inc..
http://www.beledy.net/humanit/
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