Run the Board- Nobody Told Me This When I Bought My Florida Condo.

Most people who buy a Florida condo or join an HOA board have no idea what they are actually signing up for. I didn't either.

I bought a beachside condo on the Space Coast thinking I was getting a low-maintenance slice of paradise. Within a few years I was the board president, staring down a failing roof, a bank account with $10,000 in it, and a community that had spent years fighting itself instead of solving problems. Nobody handed me a playbook. I figured it out the hard way so you don't have to.

Run the Board is the book I wish I had when I bought my condo. It is written by a Florida board president with real experience, not a lawyer summarizing statutes or a property manager protecting their own business interests. Every chapter comes from something I actually lived: negotiating a roof replacement from $250,000 down to $150,000, dealing with delinquent owners, firing a landscaper, handling a safety lawsuit, and rebuilding a community that had stopped trusting its own board.

Inside you will find practical guidance on every major challenge Florida HOA and condo boards face, including how to read and interpret Florida's frequently changing laws without paying an attorney every time you have a question, how to avoid getting ripped off by contractors and the "paradise tax" they add to every quote, what the 2022, 2024, and 2025 legislative changes actually mean for your association, the reserve funding and structural integrity requirements every condo board must now comply with following the Surfside collapse, how to handle violations, late payments, special assessments, and owner modification requests the right way, and whether self-managing your community actually makes financial sense compared to property management.

Florida has more than 49,000 community associations. The laws governing them change every year. The boards running them are mostly volunteers who were never trained for the job. This book closes that gap.

Whether you are a first-time board member trying to figure out where to start, a frustrated owner who wants to understand what your board is actually supposed to be doing, or someone considering buying into a Florida HOA or condo and wanting to know what you are getting into, this book is for you.