HOA & Condo Association Law

Perez Mayoral, P.A. recovered $50,000 in Bartlett v. Triton, a Charlotte County matter. The owner was not the party who signed the contract, which is exactly the situation worth understanding here.

Contract law starts from a simple position. Only parties to a contract can sue on it. An association hires a roofer,...

Perez Mayoral, P.A. obtained a $96,500 result in Brucker v. Green, a Broward County matter. Cases of this kind begin with somebody else’s lawsuit and end with the cost of that lawsuit being shifted back.

Courts have no interest in letting every losing plaintiff face a countersuit, so malicious prosecution is deliberately...

Perez Mayoral, P.A. recovered $55,000 for an owner in a Broward County drainage system failure matter. Cash was part of that outcome. The underlying condition is the part owners most often forget to negotiate for.

Consider what a pure cash settlement actually accomplishes. The owner takes a number, signs a release, and...

Perez Mayoral, P.A. recovered $70,000 for an owner in a Broward County concrete slab water intrusion matter. That number came after the parties had already been through the mediation stage without reaching a resolution.

Owners sometimes read mediation as a delay the association imposed on them. It is usually a statutory requirement....

Perez Mayoral, P.A. handled Smith v. Greens of Town N’ Country, a Hillsborough County association matter. Obtaining a favorable decision was one stage of that work. Making the decision enforceable was another.

An arbitration award is a document, not a court order. Nobody can garnish, lien, or levy on the strength of...

Perez Mayoral, P.A. obtained an $8,000 recovery in Pisciotta v. Isles of the Bay, a Pinellas County association matter. Smaller figures are worth noting, because owners often assume a claim has to be large before it is worth raising at all.

Section 718.111 of the Florida Statutes is direct about post-loss work....

Perez Mayoral, P.A. recovered $55,000 in an Orange County matter involving an improperly installed roof. The result came out of negotiation rather than a trial, which is where the large majority of these claims end up.

Property insurance mediation in Florida is a defined process rather than an informal meeting. Section 627.7015...

For budgets adopted on or after December 31, 2024, a unit-owner-controlled condominium association that is required to obtain a structural integrity reserve study may not vote to waive or reduce reserves for the items identified in that study. See Section 718.112(2)(f)2.b., Fla. Stat. Because most condominium buildings with three or more habitable...

Perez Mayoral, P.A. recovered $36,761.67 for a unit owner in a Lee County termite damage matter. The figure is precise because claims of this kind get built from treatment records and carpentry invoices rather than from round estimates.

Owners assume the association’s insurance answers the question. It usually does not, because property...

A Florida condominium management or maintenance contract must be in writing and must specify the services provided, the reimbursable costs, the frequency of performance, minimum staffing, and any financial or ownership interest a board member or management party holds with the contracting party. See Section 718.3025(1), Fla. Stat. Any service or obligation...