Bridgewood Townhouse II, Boca West: 42 townhouse units under the 1974 approval rules

Under the 1974 text, unchanged on this point. A sale "except to another Unit owner", a lease, a gift or any other transfer needs approval (Art. XVI.A, OR 2355/126, p. 15). The master's Certificate of Compliance and the Club's approval follow.

1. The selling owner notifies the association of the buyer's name and address, with whatever else it "may reasonably require" (Art. XVI.B(1)(a), p. 15).
2. The association then has 20 days to approve or disapprove. Its approval is issued in recordable form, handed to the buyer and recorded (Art. XVI.B(2)(a), p. 16).
3. If the owner's notice demanded a substitute buyer, a refusal obliges the association to produce one at the contract price, in cash, closing within 30 days. Without that offer, the sale is "deemed to have been approved" (Art. XVI.C(1), p. 17).

Without the demand, a refusal simply stands. A corporate buyer, or a trustee for a beneficial owner, also needs an approved Primary Occupant (Art. XVI.B(3), p. 16). Foreclosing institutional lenders and buyers at public sales are exempt (Art. XVI.E, p. 18). Anything else done without approval "shall be void unless subsequently approved" (Art. XVI.F, p. 18).

Its own assessments, through its own estoppel or the condominium's. Every unit owner on the Replat of Hamlet "S" Plat No. 1 belongs to the Village of Bridgewood Association (Art. IV § 1, OR 2295/213, p. 2; Exhibit A, p. 7). Its assessments, with 10% interest and collection costs, are "a charge on the land and a continuing lien" (Art. V, pp. 2–3). The 1974 cap of $150 a unit a year may be varied by two-thirds of the Village Board (Art. V § 3, p. 3), so it says nothing about today's figure.

The condominium may collect the Village's assessments with its own (Art. XVIII.F, OR 2355/126, p. 20). We ask which estoppel shows them. The Village lien is subordinate to a first mortgage amortized over ten years or more, but only for assessments that fell due before a foreclosure sale or deed in lieu (Art. V § 9, OR 2295/213, p. 4).

No capital contribution or transfer fee to this association appears in the declaration. The buyer pays the master's capital contribution, the Club's Joining Fee and the estoppel balances.

The master bills Bridgewood Townhouse II $25,289 for 2026/2027, against $23,089 for 2025/2026 (master's adopted 2026/2027 budget, not recorded). On top come the master's per-unit charges. A grantee in a voluntary sale shares liability, jointly and severally, with the grantor for unpaid assessments (Art. XVIII.M, p. 21), and § 718.116 now says so too.

Once the association approves the lease, and only the entire unit (Art. XV.E, OR 2355/126, p. 14). The lease must say it is subject to approval, and the association has 20 days to act. Nothing recorded for Bridgewood Townhouse II sets a minimum term or a yearly cap. The master's rules still apply: nothing in the first 12 months of ownership and nothing under four months.

If the owners later add limits, a condominium amendment banning rentals, changing the rental term or limiting how often owners may rent binds only owners who consent to it and those who take title after it (§ 718.110(13)). We search forward for one on every file.

• Since 24 September 2008 a ground-floor owner may, with a Board majority's approval, cut a hinged gate into the patio privacy fence and park one electric golf cart there (Art. XX, OR 22872/1873, pp. 2–3). Townhouse II adopted this a year before Townhouse I.
• A lender that is not an "Institutional Lender" needs the association's approval, which "may be arbitrarily withheld" (Art. XVI.D, p. 17). This matters for private or seller financing.
• The declaration's lien takes effect when a claim of lien is recorded (Art. XVIII.K, p. 21). Since 2016 the current Condominium Act governs it (OR 28201/27), so the estoppel, not the lien search, is what protects the buyer.
• Fla. Stat. § 553.899 requires milestone inspections only for buildings of three or more habitable stories. A split-level building of two and three stories sits on that line, so we ask what the association's engineer has concluded.