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00:00:00: Florida law traditionally has been more so HOA friendly meaning more favorable to the association and its board of directors however more recently it appears the legislature is starting to notice that there is a massive imbalance of power between the association and its homeowners particularly because the association has all the resources of essentially all of its homeowners through the common fund which is funded monthly through maintenance that the homeowners pay for as well as the vendors that are involved daily such as
00:00:38: The property managers uh engineers and any other experts that work for the association so more recently the legislature has implemented new laws to balance the scales and give homeowners more rights that they previously didn’t have for instance just recently the inspection of Records process has shifted to where an association now has certain obligations it needs to meet when a homeowner requests an inspection of records for instance a list of those records must be provided by the Association indicating what records were
00:01:14: And were not turned over to the homeowner in addition if an association or its board or the property management refuses to comply and be transparent with the homeowner in this inspection process then ultimately the homeowner May pursue criminal sanctions against the association so it seems that the law is changing and becoming little by little a little bit more favorable to the homeowners [Music]
