CAM Newsletter
March 2018

CAMs have professional standards in the performance of their duties.

Question:   I work for a Community Association Management Firm and we manage several properties.  One of the other managers is what I can only term as incredibly lazy.  Whenever work can be pawned off on someone else you can bet it is.  Some things go undone for weeks before anyone realizes.  My question is, what statutes may management turn to in order to get rid of this person?

Answer:   Your firm has only to look at section 468.4334, Florida Statutes for how to handle a poorly performing community association manager.  The section details what the required standards are for anyone licensed under chapter 468, F.S.   Since community association managers are considered agents that act on behalf of the community association, they must discharge duties performed on behalf of the association “loyally, skillfully, and diligently; dealing honestly and fairly; in good faith; with care and full disclosure to the community association; accounting for all funds; and not charging unreasonable or excessive fees.”  Reading the very brief statute is a good idea, so be sure to click the link, but basically, if a community association manager is not meeting the standards set forth in section 468.4334, then they are failing to meet required duties.

Thanks for Asking, Fred Gray

Click to read the entire statute 468.4334