Herald.com | 10/03/2004 | Law boosts rights of homeowners
Good piece on the new laws enacted in Florida in the last session:
You've been told to shut up at a homeowners' board meeting.

You've been hit with hundreds of dollars of extra homeowners' fees -- from a special assessment that you didn't even know your association's board of directors was considering.

And when you balked at paying homeowner association fines or a special assessment, you found yourself threatened with a lien against your home.

Now relief is on the way -- or so Florida legislators hope, as new laws took effect Friday to give homeowners in associations more rights.
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