🔹 Mandatory Reserve Funds – No more waiving reserves! By , condo associations must fully fund reserves for major repairs. 🔹 Structural Integrity Reserve Study (SIRS) – Every 10 years, buildings 3+ stories must undergo a professional inspection to assess repair costs.
The board of administration shall be composed of five members unless the inium has five or fewer units. The board shall consist of not fewer than three members in iniums with five or fewer units that are not-for-profit corporations.
MIAMI - New regulations for Florida inium owners have gone into effect, requiring condo associations to maintain reserve funds specifically for structural repairs and maintenance.
The Florida Homeowners' Association Act also provides guidelines for establishing a reserve fund but doing so is not mandatory. If your HOA has one, the reserve budget acts as a savings account for large projects that don't happen annually. Major repairs and projects are funded through this fund.
It requires associations to have sufficient reserves to cover major repairs and to conduct a survey of reserves every decade. Because of the law, older condos—found largely in South Florida, ing to state records—are facing hefty increases to association payments to fund the reserves and repair costs.