“From Justice As A Foundation All Rights Flow”

Boynton Beach, October 1, 2008

To Whom It May Concern: 

Cyber Citizens For Justice, Inc. (CCFJ) is delighted to release the results of its 2008 survey of Interested Parties' Reactions to Various Legislative Reforms for Florida Homeowners’ Associations.  This report was carefully prepared to be objective, thorough, informative and readable.   Both a summary overview of the report and the complete details are available online at  

http://www.ccfj.net/CCFJHOASURVEY.html

http://www.ccfj.net/CCFJHOASURVEYCOMPLETERES.html

Before citing a few highlights to stimulate your interest in reading the report, CCFJ’s Board of Directors wants to publicly thank all the participants for taking the time to respond and for their trust and frankness, regardless of the views they expressed.  We also want to thank the volunteers who compiled and analyzed the data and reported the results based on that analysis.

The most important finding of the report was that an unusually high percentage of participants -- 75.1% or better -- favored the passage of all 14 proposed reforms.  This result held up across all 20 subgroups of respondents in every region as well as by gender and membership or non-membership in CCFJ.

The pie chart below shows that a 1,033 Floridians representing a wide range of interests (owners, board members, attorneys, community association managers, and others) shared their views on each of the 14 suggested HOA reforms.  This is the first survey to involve so broad a range of interests and to compare and contrast their disparate views in a statistically rigorous and objective manner. 

1 OWNER 740 71.6% 2 BOARD MEMBER 130 12.6% 3 C.A.M.   13   1.3% 4 OTHERS + N.A. 143 13.8% 5 LAWYER     7   0.7%

The chart reveals two important additional facts.  First, every region of the state was represented in the survey in rough proportion to its population of homeowners’ associations.  Second, responses varied significantly across the regions.

On a personal note, our Board is pleased that the findings of the report validated so many of the concerns it had expressed over the years about earlier studies by other organizations.  We are convinced that this survey set a new and much higher standard for more credible surveys in the future.  This experience leads us to believe that a joint effort by all interested organizations (DBPR, the Florida legislature, CALL, CAN, etc.) would be a cost effective way to obtain objective information to improve the lot of Florida residents of deed-restricted communities, minimize needless arguments as well as to measure and enhance the performance of the DBPR.

We invite your comments, criticisms, questions and suggestions, with contact information please, so that we may respond as appropriate.

Sincerely,

David I. Goldenberg, Ph.D., Secretary

Cyber Citizens For Justice, Inc.

E-Mail: [email protected]