HOW ABOUT $934/HOUR FOR RECORD INSPECTION? |
An
Opinion By Jan Bergemann Published February 4, 2012
To me it seems like community association managers have a private competition going on among each other, outbidding each other with outrageous demands for the cost of record inspections.
Since they are licensed -- minimum they should be -- they should have a basic understanding of the laws regulating the associations they manage. Isn't that what they get paid for?
In this case community association manager (CAM) G. Franklin Ball should have read FS 720.303(5)(c) before embarrassing himself by signing a LETTER TO A HOMEOWNER who had requested to inspect financial records. In the letter to the homeowner Ball states: "the Association is requiring a deposit of nine hundred and thirty four dollars $934.00." And that's just for starters. It gets much better: "Should you require more than one hour, please indicate the amount of time you will need and the deposit will be adjusted accordingly: i.e. two hours double the deposit. .. and so on." Wouldn't you believe it?
How often does it have to be explained to these so-called "professionals" that "COST" can only be charged if the owner requests copies, copies that have to be made. The statutes are very clear -- see above.
More
owners should file complaints against the CAM license of managers that
sign letters with contents that clearly violate the
I
know that CAMs will try the
Signing
the letter and later claiming that the signatory just followed orders is
in my opinion completely disingenuous. By the way: This excuse didn't help
the defendants in |