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listen and/or download the talk show "On The Commons" aired on
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Hosted and
produced by Shu Bartholomew, "On The
Commons" is a weekly radio show
dedicated to discussing the many issues
surrounding mandatory homeowner
associations, the fastest growing form of
residential housing in the nation.
This Week's Show
What is in it for me? That is a question
we often hear and in the case of
mandatory membership HOAs, the answer
depends on who is asking the question.
In the case of local municipalities, the
answer is "free tax dollars" by shunting
their responsibilities onto the private
sector they don't have to maintain the
infrastructure. For developers, they
won't have to satisfy local municipal
building codes since municipalities will
not be assuming maintenance of the
infrastructure so can cut corners. For
the homeowners? Absolutely Nothing!
Nothing at all. However, the
ever-helpful attorneys, for a fee, of
course, make sure that the board members
and the managers and committee members
and whoever else has a position of power
has plenty of enabling legislation to
back them up and allow them to do pretty
much as they please. And then the
homeowners try to wrestle back some of
the rights they once had and so the
annual shuffle continues. This year is
no exception.
Jan Bergemann, founder and president of
the Florida based Cyber Citizens for
Justice, joins us On The Commons to
discuss this year's legislative agenda
he is working on for Florida. It is
always worth listening to what different
states have done or are doing as the
issues, problems and new bills magically
seem to get duplicated around the
country. (I wonder how that happens??)
In a way this is the closest thing we
have to a national homeowners'
organization. There have been some
worthwhile ideas that have come out of
Florida in the past and we look forward
to following their lead in the future.
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