FORCING COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS TO HIRE MANAGEMENT COMPANIES?

An Opinion By Jan Bergemann

Published December 9, 2025

Community Association Management Companies must be desperate for business. Now they have asked legislators to file a bill forcing community associations with total annual revenues of $500,000 or more to contract with a community association management firm.

Bill HB 465 was filed by Representative Danny Nix (R-Charlotte/Sarasota). No companion bill has been filed in the Senate yet. The bill, most likely given to the Representative by Mark Anderson, the CAM lobbyist, would force even well-run communities to hire a CAM.

With many of the CAM companies having a pretty bad reputation, lots of associations are happy to have gotten rid of their CAM and are well-run by knowledgeable board members.

We read over and over again that CAMs and CAM companies are involved in scams and embezzlement, the media is full of reports about bad CAMs.

Does that mean that boards have to hire a CAM(company), have to pay for their “services” – having now to supervise another person and pay for a liability insurance or bond for another person dealing with association funds?

What does this bill try to achieve? Remember, getting a CAM license in FL is pretty easy and the fact that a person having such license doesn’t really mean that this person has the necessary knowledge to manage a community association.

Sometimes I really have to wonder about legislator filing such bills. Do they think they create more jobs or do they attempt to give board members more headaches?