A board meeting is where you find out whether your records are real.
Golden Bay Towers is an 89-unit cooperative on the Intracoastal Waterway in Hallandale Beach. Twin six-story towers, opened in 1962, architect Harold Wiecer, private boat docks, and a framed original sales brochure still hanging in the lobby. Like 30 to 40 percent of community associations in the United States, it is self-managed — no management company, a volunteer board, and a president who signs things. That president is the person who went on to build this software.
Self-management, in practice, meant a filing cabinet, a shared inbox, and a spreadsheet that only one person understood. The bylaws were a PDF someone emailed around. The answer to “can my daughter park in the visitor space over the holidays” depended on who you asked and how recently they had read the house rules. Nobody was doing anything wrong. There was simply no record that could be relied on twice.
So the first thing we built was not software. It was a book: The Florida Co-Op Board Handbook — 29 chapters and 203 companion forms setting out what Chapter 719 actually requires of a cooperative board, week by week, published by LRI Press. Writing it forced the question that software eventually had to answer: if this is what a board is supposed to do, what would it take to actually do it on a Tuesday?
LRI Connect is the answer we built for ourselves and then finished properly. The general ledger, the minute book, the compliance calendar, the document library, and the resident’s question at eleven at night all run on one association record. Golden Bay Towers has run on it since before it had a price. See what that looks like.
LRI Connect is published by Luxury Realty International, a South Florida firm offering brokerage, property management, and concierge services. Public property websites — including goldenbaytowers.com — are a separate design engagement through LRI Studio.
Most software companies write a white paper. We wrote 768 pages, footnoted them to the statute, and sold them to boards who had no interest in buying software. The handbook has to stand up on its own, in front of readers who will check it against Chapter 719.
That is the fastest way to find out how we think before you ever speak to us. Read a chapter. If the book is wrong about your building, the platform will be too.
Visit LRI PressThe handbook
The Florida Co-Op Board Handbook
Twenty-nine chapters on governance, meetings, records, budgets, elections, the physical plant, and compliance. Chapter 719 is not Chapter 718, and a co-op board handed a condo manual is being quietly misinformed about elections, records, and share transfers.
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President of Golden Bay Towers, the 89-unit Hallandale Beach cooperative described above — an office he holds today and has held for years. Author of The Florida Co-Op Board Handbook and founder of Luxury Realty International, LRI Press, and LRI Connect. He reads the meeting packet and the pull request in the same week, which is the whole argument for this company and also its main scheduling problem.
IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE
Anthony Clemenza is admitted to practice law in New York only and is not admitted to practice law in Florida. Mr. Clemenza provides this material as general educational information, drawing on publicly available law and his experience serving as president of a Florida cooperative association; he is not acting as legal counsel in connection with this material. This material is not legal advice, does not address any person's or association's particular circumstances, and does not create an attorney-client relationship. LRI Connect and Luxury Realty International are software and web-services businesses, not law firms, and do not offer or provide legal services. Florida law changes, and a lawyer licensed in Florida should be consulted before anyone acts or relies on this material.
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Uploading a document does not make it answerable. A file sits in the library until someone with authority marks it approved for the concierge and sets who may see it. When the approved record does not cover a question, the honest reply is that it does not, and it goes to a person.
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BuildingLink publishes no pricing anywhere. Every figure in circulation is second-hand, and one of them traces back to an article from 2009. So we compare on scope, which we can show you, and leave the arithmetic to whoever will actually quote you.
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We will tell you what the statute says and when it is due. Whether your board should do the thing, and whether it did it correctly, is a question for a Florida attorney. The platform is built to hand that lawyer a record they can read, not to replace them.
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Per-unit pricing turns every conversation into a comparison with the cheapest portal on the market, and it punishes the small buildings that need the record most. A launch fee and a flat monthly band for your size. The number does not move because you added a unit.
How many units, who keeps the books, and what happened at the last annual meeting. That is enough to start.
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