When purchasing a residence in a condominium, homeowners association or a co-op, you by default agree to reside in a community association. You live in relatively close proximity to your neighbors and equally share the right to utilize common areas, whether it’s a lobby, pool, gym, parking lot and/or clubhouse.  Monthly Association dues fund shared...Read More

Community association issues are getting off to a prompt start when the Florida Senate’s Regulated Industries Committee meets on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 to take up SB 56 which relates to Community Association Assessment Notices. To view the agenda, click here. SB 56, one of the only two community association-related bills filed to date in...Read More

Air travel will change in more ways than one during the COVID-19 era and some owners of emotional support animals may be unhappy, especially if they’ve racked up frequent flyer miles with certain airlines. As of January 11, 2021, substantial amendments to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) regulation on...Read More

The uniquely Florida wink-and-a-nod ritual entailed in buying consumer-grade fireworks became statewide history as of April 8, 2020 with a new law §791.08, F.S., which eliminated the much-reviled “bird scaring” waiver previously required to purchase low-grade pyrotechnics. The product of years of lawmakers’ wrangling with fireworks manufacturers (often joined by the emergency physicians and hospitals’...Read More

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – (October 15, 2020) – Jed Frankel, a shareholder at Eisinger Law, has been reappointed to the Town of Bay Harbor Islands Planning and Zoning Board to serve an additional two-year term. While serving on the town’s Planning and Zoning Board, Frankel’s responsibilities will include participating in the review and approval of proposed...Read More

If you own a condominium or live in a homeowners’ association, you’re essentially in the residential property management business with your neighbors.  What could go wrong? Derived from compounded Latin, with “con” translating into “together with” and “dominium” meaning “right of ownership” the glitzy real estate term or even the cachet of being a homeowners’ association member...Read More

Today, Friday September 25, 2020 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued Executive Order 20-244, moving all of Florida’s 67 counties into Phase 3. Executive Order 20-244 does the following: Removes state-level restrictions on businesses, such as restaurants. Provides that no COVID-19 emergency ordinance may prevent an individual from working or operating a business, giving Floridians and...Read More

Political polarization in 2020 has reached a COVID-fevered pitch, ignited by shadowy entities of all kinds fueling a whole lot of anger.  As if things weren’t volatile enough, it’s now election season in Florida, which boasts more community associations than any other state in America. When we really believe in something, many of us feel a...Read More