No Sidewalks but a lot of lairs

How can anyone live in a community with NO sidewalks?   High crime rate !  Force to pay the MX !  Say anything bad about this community and you get BAN from the clubhouse.  They feed  Lake Ashton with Herbicides !  They invite you every Monday to enjoy their guest of advertisers. They feed you the wrong information.  They are ca bunch of lairs.  What is Trich Adams doing ?  Joe Hunter ?  What a bunch of idiots and lairs.  Am I glad I am the hell out of there!

HIGH CRIME RATE HERE IN LAKE ASHTON

WHAT A BIG JOKE		Light Out Against Crime
	Neighborhood Watch wants you to participate in the national Night Out Against Crime today, Tuesday, August 6. The Senior Leaders of C.A.P. will take the Sheriff's golf cart and car out from 6 to 8 pm and drive around the streets of Lake Ashton with lights on and horns blaring. All residents are being asked to put their outside lights on during this time to mark the community participation in this event. Please click here to read more about the event. LETS FACE IT.  LAKE ASHTON IS FULL OF CRIME BUT THEY WON'T TELL YOU.  MANY HOMES ARE BEING BROKEN INTO AND ITEMS ARE BEING STOLEN.  THEY JUST DON'T GIVE A DAMN.    WHERE I AM LIVING THERE IS NO SHERIFFS DRIVING AROUND THIS COMMUNITY.   NO GOLF CARTS BECAUSE THERE IS NO CRIME HERE.  NONE WHAT SO EVER.   LAKE ASHTON IS THE WORSE PLACE TO LIVE BECAUSE OF THE HIGH CRIME RATE AND TO TOP IT ALL NO SIDEWALKS.  YOU CAN HAVE THIS DISHONEST COMMUNITY. DON'T EXPECT MS ADAMS TO TELL YOU.  SHE IS THE BIGGEST LAIR IN LAKE ASHTON.

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Help Is on the Way for Florida's Homeowner Associations

Article Courtesy of the Florida Community Association Journal

By Eric M. Glazer, Esq.

Published July 2013
  

For far too long, homeowner associations have been treated like the red-headed stepchild of the Florida Legislature. Condominium associations in Florida are governed by a superior and more detailed statute. Furthermore, unit owners in condominiums get assistance from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) through an informative website with online forms, a hotline to answer condominium law questions, investigators to answer complaints, and document examiners to review developer filings, declaratory statements, and more. It was time to at least try and level the playing field. This past legislative session Cyber Citizens for Justice (www.ccfj,net) made it their priority to get much needed legislative help to Florida homeowner associations and sought my firm's legal assistance and the assistance of Richard Pinsky, a lobbyist with Akerman.

The first task was to find legislators who were willing to come to the aid of the millions of homeowners in the state. This is not the easiest of tasks, considering the fact that last year the Florida Legislature passed a law that removed developer warranties in homeowner associations for driveways, roads, sidewalks, utilities, and drainage. Finding legislators willing to take on the developer lobby was even harder. Luckily, Senator Alan Hays, Representative Michael LaRosa, and Representative Debbie Mayfield accepted the challenge and stepped up to the plate to help.

  
There were several glaring examples of how unfairly homeowners in an HOA were treated as compared to condominium owners, so my focus on creating new legislation started with that.

For example, the condominium statute automatically removes board members who are arrested for stealing association funds. The HOA statute did not contain such a provision. As a result, there have actually been cases of HOA presidents being arrested for stealing money from the association and continuing to serve as president of the HOA... from prison. That won't be the case any longer.

In addition, the condominium statute required the purchase of insurance or fidelity bonding for all persons who
handle association funds. The HOA statute did not, but it HOA statute allowed managers to charge members hourly fees, with no cap, for access to association records. There are horror stories of HOA members being charged hundreds of dollars for a few pages of records. Now, there will be a $20 per hour cap, and the first haJf hour is free.

In addition, homeowners will now be able to use their cell phone or camera to take pictures of the association's records free of charge. The topic of education is near and dear to my heart. I have taught a Board Certification course for condominium directors for the past few years, now having certified approximately 5,000 Floridians all around the state. It made no sense that HOA board members did not have to get certified, inasmuch as their responsibilities as board members are certainly equal to condominium directors. So starting July 1, HOA board members will now have to be certified as well.

In a condominium association, if a director wants to do business with the association, the contract must be disclosed, two-thirds of the non-interested directors must vote in favor, and the owners have a right to cancel the contract. HOA owners had no such protection until now. And believe it or not, only the condominium statute contains a provision that prevents board members from receiving kickbacks from vendors for awarding the vendor an association contract. Now HOA owners get the same protection in their association.

Owners in a condominium get to control their own destiny and get "turnover" from the developer to the unit owners far quicker than HOA members do. There are stories out there of HOA developers staying in control of communities for decades. HOA developers now must turn over control of the association if they file a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy petition, if a receiver is appointed, if they lose the property to foreclosure, or if they abandon or desert the property. Homeowners will also now be allowed one seat on the board when 50 percent of the units are sold. Let's just say that the developer lobby wasn't particularly happy with this new legislation.

My original proposed legislation would have allowed members in a homeowners association to get much needed assistance from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Some people believe that this is simply an expansion of government and bureaucracy, and another example of overregulation by the government.

My opinion differs. Providing assistance to owners, as mentioned above, is not overregulation. It is simply much needed assistance to homeowners, a means of getting help from developer abuse, and having simple questions answered and matters addressed, without the need to hire an expensive attorney. At no point along the way did I ever get the feeling that any legislator was against the DBPR providing help and assistance to HOA owners.

  
The problem in getting the legislation passed was that at present, the state of Florida simply has no idea who the homeowner associations are, where they are located, or how many homes in our state are actually situated within an HOA. So, effective July 1, homeowner associations will now be required to register with the DBPR and provide their name, address, employer i.d. number, number of parcels, and amount of their budget. It will not cost the association anything to register. If the community is managed by a licensed manager, that manager has the duty of complying with the statute. The thinking this year was to first find out who the associations are, and perhaps next year lean toward getting these associations the help they need from the DBPR.

I had the honor and privilege of appearing before committees of the Florida House and Senate to promote this legislation and personally met with senators, house members, and their staff in an effort to get the legislation passed. As the bill picked up steam by unanimously passing each sub-committee, additional excellent provisions were suggested by others.

For example, associations will now be required to send owners copies of amendments to the governing documents within 30 days of the amendment being recorded. In addition, in order to thwart a recent decision of the 3rd OCA, an association will no longer be financially penalized should the association foreclose on a unit and take title by having the unit ledger automatically go to zero. That court decision, unfortunately, resulted in associations not being paid a dime in past due assessments by subsequent purchasers at a bank's foreclosure sale.

Additionally, now in an HOA, the right of the developer to amend the association's governing documents is subject to a test of reasonableness, which prohibits the developer from unilaterally making amendments to the governing documents that are arbitrary, capricious, or in bad faith; destroy the general plan of development; prejudice the rights of existing nondeveloper members to use and enjoy the benefits of common property; or materially shift economic burdens from the developer to the existing non-developer members.

All of these amendments to the HOA Statute were codified in House Bill 7119. The bill passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 114 to 4. The bill passed the Florida Senate by a vote of 37 to 0.

Governor Scott signed the bill into law on June 14. The effective date of all of these statutory amendments is July 1. All in all, it was a pretty successful year for homeowner associations in Florida, and for the first time in a long time, homeowner associations certainly have the legislature's ear. 

 

Of course, there is a lot of work still left undone, but after years of no help and even going in reverse, this year was the jump start needed to pass additional laws next year in the best interest of our Florida community associations.

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Eric M. Glazer, Esquire is with Glazer & Associates, P.A., with offices throughout Florida.
He is also the host of the CondoCraze and HOA's radio show that airs each Sunday at noon on 850 WFTL.
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MX

Please be aware that if you did not sign up for the MX, you are under NO obligation to pay for this service.  There are many Lake Ashton residents that are NOT paying.  This is a rip off just to get the developer rich.  Only a fool would pay for this service.  And I would not call this a service but a rip off.

Over 150,000 hits has of August 1, 2013. Thank you for your support.

Crooked Lake Ashton Community with no sidewalks

Lake Ashton is the most Distrusted and Dishonest Community in the State of Florida.  They ban residents  from their Club House, They don't allow residents to enjoy their clubhouse, NO SIDWALKS, They want you to walk in the road.  You must pay for your MX at all times even if your not there.  If you don't pay for your fees, you are fine $100.00.  Ms Adams threw Do nothing Joe Hunter out of the Community Director position and took his place.   Bingo Paul Pontious stole thousands of dollars from the Bingo players and took hundreds of his friends to dinner by bus.  Pot luck is now $2.00 and you bring in the food.  I feel sorry for the residents of this community.  I am so glad I got out.  You can't plant a plant without telling them what plant your planting.  They are still thinking about banning  pick-up trucks. 

My new home

I have gotten a few reply's from interested parties as to where I am living.  I just don,t give it out on line.  I must have your phone number.  Thanks for your interest.  This place where I am living is the best in the state of Florida, 

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Bicycle Trip

We took a Bicycle trip yesterday from the clubhouse to the hospital without going on the road.  Sidewalks all the way. there was about 20 of us and we all had lunch.  The food was good.  Try doing that at Lake Ashton.  Hundreds of restaurants and stores within 10 miles of this community.  The ocean is just 10 miles down the road.  Rt 95 is only 2 miles away, no more Rt 4 going thru Orlando.  This is got to be the best community in Florida.  No bones about it.  The clubhouse is twice the size of Lake Ashton and there is very little traffic on the community roads because all road lead to the main entrance road which has no homes on it.  This is simple the best.  Enjoy your Summer!  This community was design by someone with brains.