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The Smart Board and Property Manager Legal Guide: Condo and Homeowners' Association Assessment Collections

My name is Cindy Hill. I'm with Hill Tanembaum. We're going to go ahead and get started here. For those who are not familiar with our firm, we specialize in condominium and homeowner association representation and also have construction defect and ot...

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The Smart Board and Property Manager Legal Guide: Resolving Internal Disputes in Community Associations Without Resorting

  So today's presentation is resolving internal disputes in your associations without resorting to litigation. I've been in community association practice for nearly 47 years, and from the time I first started as a young associate to where I cur...

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Smart Board & Property Managers Legal Guide: Internal Community Association Disputes - When Litigation Becomes the Only Option

  Good morning, folks. You'll see Taylor Ford under my name, but I'm not Taylor Ford, I'm Alan Tannenbaum. Taylor and I are going to be operating from the same computer today. We're going to be interchangeable as we go through the presentation. ...

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The Smart Board and Property Manager Legal Guide: Condominium and HOA Short-Term Rental Restrictions in Florida

Good morning, everyone. I'm Cindy Hill with Hill Tanembaum, and you're here for our HOA and condominium short-term rental restrictions course that we're doing for our smart board this month. For those of you who don't know us, we are a law firm that'...

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The Smart Board and Property Manager Legal Guide: Administration and Operation of Board Meetings for Community Associations

  Good morning, everyone. I'm Cindy Hill with Hill Tanenbaum. We still have some participants joining, but I'm going to go ahead and start the general introduction for our course. This is Hill Tanenbaum's monthly smart board presentation, which ...

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The Smart Board And Property Manager legal Guide: Social Media in Community Associations

  All right, good morning. My name is Cindy Hill, with Hill Tannenbaum, and you are attending our social media and community associations SMART Board presentation for this month. For those who don't know us, our firm specialized in Community Ass...

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Mistakes Florida Communities Make When Collecting Assessments

Assessments (sometimes called dues or HOA/Condo fees) are the funds collected from association members to support the operation, maintenance, and management of the community. The collection of those funds in an efficient and timely fashion is paramou...

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Gran Paradiso Water Dispute Settled

The long-running water dispute in the upscale Gran Paradiso community of Wellen Park has finally reached a settlement after three years of legal battles between homeowners and the developer-controlled West Villages Improvement District. What began as...

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The Smart Board & Property Manager Legal Guide: 2025 Legislative Update For Community Associations

Cindy Hill, Esq.:So as part of our mostly monthly, not every month, but most months, we do this presentation we call the Smart Board, where we go over pending new issues, hot topics, whatever it seems that the community association committee is looki...

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The Smart Board & Property Manager Legal Guide: Is Your Community Association Undertaking A Repair?

Alan Tannenbaum, Esq.: I'm Alan Tannenbaum with the firm of Tannenbaum, Lemole and Hill. We are a full-service community association firm, but we have a subspecialty in construction issues. I'm personally board certified in construction law by the Fl...

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Smart Board & Property Manager Legal Guide: Fining Procedures For Condominium and Homeowner Associations

Cindy Hill, Esq.: Okay, good morning to everyone. Welcome to our Smart Board presentation on Fining Procedures for Condominium and Homeowner Associations. That was my law partner, Alan Tannenbaum, just speaking. I'm Cindy Hill. We also have on this p...

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The Smart Board & Property Manager Legal Guide: The Triple Blows Of 2024 - Recovering From The Hurricanes Debby, Helene And Milton


Jon Lemole, Esq.:All right, well good morning. We're going to get started. Thank you everybody for joining us today. It's been a tough last month or month and a half, two months with the triple whammy of Debbie and Helene and Milton. And in our gener...

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The Smart Board & Property Manager Legal Guide: Florida SB 154 - The Condominium Safety Legislation "GLITCH" Bill


Alan Tannenbaum, Esq.: Good morning, everybody. This is Alan Tannenbaum at Tannenbaum, Lemole & Hill. I'm here with my partners, Jon Lemole and Cindy Hill, and our associates, Jim Turffs and Jennifer Hicks. We're a full service community associat...

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The Smart Board & Property Manager Legal Guide: New Burdens On Boards By The Newly-Adopted Florida Condo and HOA Laws


Alan Tannenbaum, Esq.: Okay. Good morning, everybody. My name is Alan Tannenbaum, Tannenbaum Lamole & Hill. I'm here today with my partners, Cindy Hill and Jon Lamole, and our associates, Jim Turffs and Jennifer Hicks. Just to tell you a bit abou...

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Smart Board & Property Manager Legal Guide: Unraveling The Mysteries Of The New Florida Condo & HOA Laws


Jon Lemole, Esq.: Good morning, everybody. Lots of folks involved interested in today's topic. My name is Jon Lemole, I'm a partner at Tannenbaum Lemole & Hill, and I'm here with my partners, Alan Tannenbaum and Cindy Hill, as well as our firm at...

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The Smart Board & Property Manager Legal Guide: Repair & Maintenance Obligations: Limits of Board Business Judgment


Alan Tannenbaum, Esq.: I'm Alan Tannenbaum. I'd like to welcome everybody to our Smart Board session on Repair and Maintenance Obligations: Limits of Board Business Judgment. I'm here with my partners, Jon Lemole and Cindy Hill and our associates, Ji...

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The Smart Board & Property Manager Legal Guide: Effectively Dealing With Covenant and Rule Violators


Alan Tannenbaum, Esq.: Welcome everybody. This is Alan Tannenbaum, Tannenbaum, Lemole, and Hill. I'm here with my partners, Cindy Hill and Jon Lemole and our associates, Jim Turffs and Destinee Small. We're going to run today's session primarily as a...

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Florida SB 154 - The Condominium Safety Legislation "Glitch Bill"


Alan Tannenbaum, Esq.: My name is Alan Tannenbaum of the law firm of Tannenbaum, Lemole & Hill. And I have my partners, Jon Lemole and Cindy Hill, and our associates, Destinee Small and Jennifer Myers, are on with us today. Today's program is goi...

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Smart Board & Property Manager Legal Guide: Key Elements In A Repair Contract


Alan Tannenbaum, Esq.: My name is Alan Tannenbaum, and our firm is Tannenbaum, Lemole & Hill, and we are giving a presentation today on key elements in a repair contract. Since the last Smart Board, we've had two lawyer additions to our firm. And...

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Demystifying Budgets & Assessments: Insights from Industry Leaders


Video Insights: Importance of Reserve Studies The Surfside tragedy in Florida highlighted the importance of saving funds for older buildings and brought attention to the lack of best practices in funding reserves. The latest law on waiving reserves i...

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