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Originally Posted by PennBF
If anyone is interested in knowing how a community, whether it be a Condo or HOA/Villages, etc. should be controlled they should familiarize themselves with Florida Law 718 which is the law Condo's and Condo Boards must follow and the limitations of the Developer. It controls the Developer from continuing to rule the community once the homes/condos have been built and places very tough laws for the Boards to follow. It is amazing the difference in the way the developer is controlled and the prevention of "Developer Abuses". In addition there is pretty a long schedule of fines for violating the rules. Somehow it has been possible for a group to convince the Florida State Reps. to allow almost unlimited abuses by the Developer when they call it an HOA? It is clear that under 718 there would not be an IRS abuse as is the case with The Villages. It would be checked at the very start of the practice! Boards are not only held accountable to the residents but the Government and both fines and criminal charges can be brought forward if there are certain violations. There is no accountability to the "Board" in The Villages as the "Psedo"Board" is the Developer. Checks and balances do not exist. The developer is a business and too many want to give a business a "soul". A business is a "profit making organization" and does not have a soul no matter how many want to pretend it does.  |
I said I was done. But we are a CDD not a condo or an HOA.
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