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If you live on a farm with the nearest neighbor miles down the road, the following behaviors may impact you and your family but they are not likely to hurt anyone else. However, choose the same behavioral path with the nearest neighbor separated by only some drywall or a fence and the result can be much more harmful. • Smoking: The biggest issues right now with smoking in multifamily buildings concern secondhand smoke and its detrimental impact on health. While that behavior certainly falls within the category of personal conduct impacting others, another possible impact is burning down the building if you fall asleep while smoking. More than one celebrity has died with a lit nicotine product in hand; no need to add innocent condominium and cooperative owners to that list. • Candles: Most people love the smell of scented candles as an enhancement to a home's ambiance. However, that beautiful scent can soon turn to the smell of acrid smoke if the candle lights nearby objects on fire. Burning candles requires some form of vigilance

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Another important victory for Florida community associations occurred during the 2013 Florida Legislative Session! HB 87 - Mortgage Foreclosures by Representative Kathleen Passidomo (R - Naples) has passed the Legislature by a 36 to 13 vote! The third time must be the charm as this year finally saw the passage of this much-needed relief after failing two years in a row. Far too many associations have been held in limbo waiting for banks to foreclose on delinquent properties in their communities. HB 87 will give associations a new tool in the form of an Order to Show Cause to force banks to proceed expeditiously with their foreclosure actions unless they can produce a compelling reason they cannot do so. Of course, if an association is already renting out property to which it took title and does not wish to speed up the bank's foreclosure, it should not avail itself of this new Order to Show Cause tool. However, for the vast majority of associations who cannot rent out delinquent properties in their community either because they hav

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The market today is phenomenal for both buyers and sellers. Prices are still good, and financing rates are the lowest in at least 30 years. But the inventory is still very low, and a seller whose home is in good condition and prices it in range of it's value, will have a sale in less than thirty days!! I've been assisting buyers and sellers for over thirty years and have the dedication, expertise, and commitment to help you achieve your goal. You will be pleased with your results and confident when you experience the process done right. So, "Add SPARKS.......for a Moving Experience!" I look forward to working with YOU!

May 1st, 2013Once again last night my day ended with a disappointing loss to a competing offer on a fairly price Pickering property. There is a real supply/demand problem and opportunity existing right now in the Durham resale market. It only depends upon who you are, a Buyer Or Seller? or both!I've been involved in more multiple offers recently, than any other time before in my 17 years of local real estate sales. All of the way from Bowmanville to Pickering, I am seeing no shortage of buyers looking for a decent home in a decent neighbourhood. I say decent because many of these homes are not 'show stoppers' by any means yet they have been modestly looked after and are not dumps. It is not even a low asking price that is responsible for these events!Right now, if you can find a great home at a reasonable price and your home is in good saleable condition, I would say don't hesitate to move forward on the potential purchase that has presented itself...and be prepared to bid on it and poss

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One of the first questions I ask legislators, candidates seeking a job with my firm and vendors who sell services to community associations is: Have you ever served on your community's board of directors? How can any of us really know what a volunteer director job entails if we have never filled that role? I served on my homeowners' association board for two years and that was almost ten years ago. Prior to me, my husband served on the board and prior to that, other residents who were lawyers were recruited to serve on the board in the hopes that a legal background would somehow assist the board. I am not sure how much that theory was borne out in reality but my experiences from my time on the board have stayed with me and I believe have made me better able to relate to my association clients and their daily issues. Our HOA board meetings were all held in the various directors' homes and they were not well-attended. Occasionally, a resident with a specific request such as an exterior modification would attend and then l

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