Interesting article about HOA life in Florida

Being a stats guy, the most important part of this article to me is:

"The figures aren't an exact measure of owner happiness, but they are the closest thing kept by the state. They don't show multiple complaints filed by an individual or multiple complaints against an association, according to Sam Farkas, a department spokesman.

They also don't show if one or 100 owners signed a single complaint, said Jan Bergemann, president of Cyber Citizens for Justice, a volunteer organization representing owners. If 100 owners signed one complaint, 99 would wrongly be considered happy, he said.

Another way of looking at the figures is that complaints were filed against 10 percent of the state's condo associations. That's based on 25,006 associations in the state. But the same caveats apply."

Wasn't it Mark Twain who said something like;

"there are lies, and darn lies, and then there are statistics!"

But, I do agree that most of the time HOAs do a reasonably good job. Thanks for the article.