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Florida Real Estate Law
Sharing What I Know About Florida Real Estate Law
AboutWhat Is A Condominium Termination In Florida?
Last Update: 4/14/21 In Florida, condominiums are considered legal entities, just like corporations, with Boards of Directors and owners and creditors. When you decide to buy a home in a Florida condominium, you are becoming part of this legal entity as one of its...
Holiday Foreclosure Surprise: No Federal Income Tax on 2014 Short Sales
Last week, before President Obama left the White House for his family holiday in Hawaii, he signed into law the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014. This is now the law of the land, just in time for the end of 2014, and shockingly, it passed both the House and Senate...
New Conflict in Florida Foreclosure Law Related to Banks Ability to File a New Lawsuit After It’s First Case is Dismissed: Good News for Borrowers?
From a legal perspective, Florida is divided into regions or “districts” that have mid-level review courts (appeals courts) set up to oversee and review the decisions and determinations of lower trial courts. The Florida Supreme Court sits as the highest court in the...
Florida Foreclosures – What’s Happening Now?
December 2014 update on what we are seeing now with Florida foreclosures and related issues – 1. Foreclosure filings have remained steady in the last few weeks – this observation is based upon the number of calls we are receiving and on the number of lis pendens being...
Cameras In Florida Condominiums
Last Update: 10/17/19 Protecting Privacy Concerns For many Florida condo owners, one of the main reasons why they chose to live in a condominium community instead of a single-family home is because of the sense of greater security. There is safety in numbers, of...
When Can a Florida Condo Board Authorize and Direct Entry Into Your Condo Unit?
Florida condominium life is truly its own lifestyle. People move here from all over the nation and all over the world to enjoy our sunsets, our beaches, and our unique Florida activities. Many choose to live in one of the many Florida condominium communities,...
What Can a Florida Condo Owner Do About an Annoying or Irritating Condo Neighbor?
You live in a beautiful South Florida condominium. Every morning, you can watch the sun rise over the Atlantic Ocean from your balcony. In the evening, you can walk along the beach. There’s no yard to mow, no snow to shovel. The Florida condo lifestyle is a dream come...
What Associations and Condo Owners Can Do About a Nonpaying Florida Condo Unit Owner
In Florida, there may be more nonpaying condo owners causing headaches for condominium associations and their fellow condo owners than any other state in the country. Our state's real estate market is still recovering; Florida was often cited as number one in the...
How Can Florida Condo Owners Boot a Bad Condo Manager?
Most large Florida condominiums are overseen by property management companies that are hired by the Association to handle the day to day operations for the condominium. (Small Florida condo associations usually have an individual condo manager to manage the property.)...
When Can Condo Owners Be Fined by Their Condo Association?
There’s some good news for you if you own a unit in a Florida Condominium: at least you’re not living in a Florida HOA! Under Florida law, for whatever reason, a Florida Home Owner Association is able to place a lien on a home if the owner fails to pay a fine that has...
