As of this date seventy-five business days have passed since documents were requested of Florida Property Management Group regarding Devon-Aire Villas Homeowners Association #3. Florida Statutes requires that these records be provided by the end of the tenth business day. Failure to provide records after ten days then becomes a matter of fines imposed at a MINIMUM rate of $50.00 per day, according to Florida Statutes. Because multiple records have been requested, still not provided, there are multiples of $3,750 owed to homeowners who had requested those records last November. That minimum amount keeps growing each business day.

Nevertheless, in a very bizarre twist, those homeowners who requested records and have not received them have been threatened with a lawsuit “by the HOA” which allegedly hired a lawyer using HOA funds to protect the reputation of those in FPMG, a private company, who are refusing to comply with laws governing those who manage HOAs. It is this writer's belief that use of HOA funds to thwart Florida Statutes is exceedingly brazen and probably violates Florida Statutes in the process. It is against all related laws to use HOA funds for personal benefit, and to use HOA funds to threaten a homeowner with a lawsuit for asking for records borders on extortion.

Under these circumstances, while this matter of possible or probable extortion compounds the circumstances under which an amount of approximately $640,000, belonging to Devon-Aire Villas #3 HOA, over a period of the past eight years, remains mysteriously unaccounted for by persons at FPMG, posts made previously on this blog are temporarily suspended.