Unit owners in a condominium do have the right to access official records of the Association, but there are several categories of exceptions. You’re not entitled to see social security numbers. You’re not entitled to see the medical records of a unit owner. You’re not entitled to see personnel records of the Association employees. You’re not entitled to see documents or records ...
Continue →A budget meeting is a meeting that is open to all of the members. There should be a notice of the meeting, the date, time and place, and all owners have the right to attend and to be heard about the budget, even though the Board ultimately is the one who votes to approve the budget.
Continue →In a condominium association, the Board may suspend an owner’s right to vote at a property notice meeting, if the owner owes them money for more than 90 days, and it’s more than $1000. They must first give the owner a notice, more than 30 days in advance before the suspension of the voting rights goes into effect.
Continue →In a homeowner’s association, there is a declaration of covenants and restrictions. One of those restrictions is typically a restriction against animals. In most cases, it will say that no one may keep an animal on the property, with the exception of dogs, cats or other household pets. So if you have one of those types of animals, you won’t have ...
Continue →A condominium can borrow money from a bank. Generally whether it can do so under specific terms is based on the condominium documents. Look to see whether the Board has the authority alone, or does it need approval of a vote from the unit owners. Sometimes they have to get a majority of owners to approve the loan. Sometimes it could ...
Continue →In most condominium associations, the governing documents provide that a condominium association cannot pay an officer or director of the association. There are sometimes exceptions, where the property is a commercial condominium, but generally in a residential condominium, the officers and directors who are the members of the association are not compensated for their services.
Continue →Florida law allows an association to charge what they call a transfer fee upon the sale or lease of the unit, but that is only if the governing documents of your association, the declaration or bylaws, authorize it and then the fee by law is limited to $100.
Continue →If you are concerned about how the money of the association is being spent, you can ask to inspect the financial records of the association. You send a letter asking for access to financial reports, invoices, contracts, the annual audit; any of the financial records of the association. You have an absolute right to review those records.
Continue →All meetings of the association are open to the residents with few exceptions. The meetings should be publicized with a notice sent to the owners and posted on a conspicuous place on the property. The biggest exception is where there is pending or existing litigation and the Board is going to meet with the attorney. That kind of a meeting is ...
Continue →Condominium associations keep a roster of the unit owners and that roster contains the name, address of the property owner, the unit number, usually the telephone number and often times an email address and any other unit owner has the right to obtain a copy of the roster of owners. But the email address is confidential unless the owner allows the ...
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