By Jan Bergemann
It seems that screaming
and hollering is pretty common at board meetings in Florida’s community
associations. Over the years I have attended board meetings where the
participants were obviously under the impression that the one who screamed the
loudest is right. And if that didn’t work some folks even turned to physical
confrontations.
I always think that
community associations bring out the worst in people. Our TV programs are full
of so-called REALITY-SHOWS. As we all know, most of them are
actually scripted – and are often not really reality shows. The producers of
such shows should just attend board meetings – and they can film better shows
than any writer could script.
But these screaming and
fighting “matches” are in my opinion not caused by just a few obnoxious owners,
they are caused by a system that allows bullying and dictatorial behavior.
Every fight at such board meetings has two sides to the story. In most
communities I know there are two – or even more – parties that fight each
other. And these fights often turn ugly, causing scenes like described above.
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