The transition from developer control to resident control is a challenging time for any community. Reality is that a majority of people buying into deed restricted community associations don't truly understand the extent to which they are binding themselves to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions inherent to their new home ownership.
Matt Leukroth, MBA, LCAM, has been in the property management and developer industries for more than twenty years. After beginning his career in food & beverage management, he began his experiences with developers and property management by spending several years with a public developer of lifestyle and golf club communities. As general manager of several developer owned assets, such as elaborate community town centers, private food & beverage operations, lifestyle amenities, and golf club & course operations, he gained extensive development and operational knowledge of private club facilities, in addition to participation on multiple association boards as a developer appointed director.
Florida is the nation's leading state when it comes to condominium and homeowners association law. This is likely because the state has historically had more incorporated neighborhoods than anywhere else, and therefore a lot more time to learn from experience. Those experiences get incorporated into legislature for homeowner protections, but also in some cases for developer protection, as may be equitable to both parties during development of a residential community.
