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By Donna DiMaggio Berger
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Thankfully Floridians heeded the call and evacuated where necessary and prepared one and all for the monstrous Hurricane Irma. While Irma was a lengthy and dangerous storm, the effects on Florida were not as devastating as had been feared. However, for thousands of shared ownership communities, volunteer boards, professional managers and residents will be …
By Donna DiMaggio Berger
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Governor Scott has declared a Florida-wide state of emergency which now deploys the emergency powers for volunteer boards found in Sections 718.1265, 719.128 and 720.316 of the Florida Statutes. Hurricane Irma may prove to be the testing ground for these emergency powers to determine, post-storm, if boards abused these powers and therefore the powers …
By Donna DiMaggio Berger
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By Donna DiMaggio Berger
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It’s hard right now to turn away from the 24/7 news cycle and its discord, rancor and heated rhetoric. When we spend the majority of our time discussing just 20% of the topics which concern us, we cannot commit time or energy to the other 80% which also demands our attention. It’s not surprising …
By Donna DiMaggio Berger
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Hopefully, most of us enter into relationships with the expectation that they will last. However, for those of us past adolescence, we realize that even long-term relationships can end and, even when they were good for a long time, the manner in which they do can overshadow everything that preceded that ending.
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By Donna DiMaggio Berger
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Law firm becomes first in Florida offering proprietary online voting software to address long-standing challenges for managed communities
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – March 22, 2016 – The law firm of Becker & Poliakoff today announced the launch of BPBALLOT, a proprietary, …
By Donna DiMaggio Berger
Posted on It really shouldn’t come as a surprise that older multifamily communities in Florida (and elsewhere in the country) have serious parking problems these days since those communities were built decades ago when families used fewer cars.
Today, people move into these communities with three, four and sometimes five cars in tow. In …
By Donna DiMaggio Berger
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With Tropical Storm Erika bearing down upon us and likely to hit our shores over the weekend or early next week, it is important for you to know what to do if your community suffers a property loss due to this storm.
There are certain steps you must take to …
By Donna DiMaggio Berger
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Given the significant percentage of Floridians living in all types of shared ownership communities, it is not surprising that each year we see at least a handful of bills pass which directly or indirectly impact those private residential communities and one primary association bill which contains both substantive changes and technical fixes needed to …
By Donna DiMaggio Berger
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Question: Can a realtor request a copy of the association HOA budget? One of the properties in our Association went through all the foreclosure proceedings and the bank is now the owner. A realtor who is representing the bank has asked for a copy of the current association budget. When I asked …
Becker, with headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, FL., is a multi-practice commercial law firm with attorneys, lobbyists and other professionals at offices throughout the East Coast.
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