With sunny skies, warm temperatures and an ideal location along the Atlantic Coast, adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway, tourists are flocking to Boynton Beach by the droves. Tourists aren’t the only group heading along the At…
As the housing market in many parts of the country has floundered, many developers have taken creative approaches to stanch the outward flow of cash. In many markets, this means opting to convert portions of developments originally int…
In December 2008, the National Bureau of Economic Research announced that the United States was in a recession that had started back in December 2007. The official announcement was old news for most Americans. Most financially…
Almost every community is made up of people from a broad array of ethnic and sociological backgrounds living in close proximity to each other. Managing a co-op or condo that’s home to different people from different backgrounds can pose…
Energy efficiency has become a “buzz word” over the past couple years in South Florida and more and more gadgets and devices have come on the market that are specifically designed to use less energy. Saving energy does a lot more than j…
We as a culture produce a lot of trash—and not just in the form of reality television shows, late night infomercials, and bad romance novels. We put the debris from our meals, our projects, our newly acquired goods and wares, and just a…
Going green doesn’t have anything to do with choosing a natural paint color for your kitchen, or planting a new bed of romaine lettuce in your community garden. But the phrase can have many different meanings and can be done across a br…
The 14th Street Townhomes, a 36-unit Pompano Beach condominium built in 1991, doesn’t have a vast expanse of grass. It occupies less than five acres of land, yet in 2008 it began saving 5,000 to 10,000 gallons of drinking water a year b…
Mark your calendars! The date for The South Florida Cooperator’s first annual South Florida Condo, HOA, & Co-op Expo, is fast approaching. This year’s innaugural event will be held at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention…
Q Our condominium association gives out gifts (in monetary form) to the association employees that work in our building. Gifts are made to the board president, who sets up a separate bank account, and then decides how the money given sh…