The Colony at Heron Bay, Parkland: 51 large homes with their own HOA

Both associations assess every lot, so each sale needs both estoppels (Art. IV ¶ 1, p. 10; Art. V ¶ 6, p. 11), and the buyer pays Heron Bay's Capital Payment. The Colony's recorded documents add no capital contribution, transfer fee, working capital, approval or right of first refusal. None names a manager, so confirm that TMG Management, listed in the master's estoppel table, takes Colony requests.

• Quarterly dues. The Board made assessments payable quarterly in advance from 1 January 2000 (Instr 100308209, the County's instrument number). An owner over 15 days late may have the rest of the year's assessment made due at once (Art. IV ¶ 4, p. 10).
• After closing. Membership rights start only when the new owner gives the association the recorded deed (Articles Art. V, Declaration p. 18).

Yes. The Colony adds no term or cap to Heron Bay's rule of one lease in any 12 months. Tenants and guests are bound like owners, and the owner answers for their violations (Art. V ¶ 5, p. 11). The table holds no Colony leasing amendment for Chapter 720's 2021 limit on new rental rules to test.

Article II sets a minimum of 3,500 square feet of living area and a 35-foot height limit (¶¶ 2.E, 3, p. 5). Setbacks are 25 feet front, 10 side, 25 street side and 15 rear (¶ 2.A, p. 4). Roofs are tile, cedar shake or slate, never asphalt or cedar shingle. Driveways are stamped concrete, pavers or brick, with a two- or three-car garage and one uniform front-yard pole light (¶¶ 5–7, 10, pp. 5–6). Screen enclosures need WCI's prior approval of plans and, since July 2000, uniform bronze aluminum framing (¶ 8, as replaced by Instr 100384655, p. 1).

The declaration bars business buildings (¶ 1.A, p. 3) and leaves working from home, pets and vehicles to the master's home-business, pet and parking rules. WCI settles any conflict with the master's rules, "and its decision shall be final" (Art. V ¶ 8, p. 12), as on WCI's other Neighborhood Covenants.

Assessments, including special ones "for capital improvements or major repairs", are "a continuing lien upon the LOT" without any recorded claim, as are late charges, collection costs and reasonable attorney's fees (Art. IV ¶ 1, p. 10). They bind every owner personally, "including any purchaser at a judicial sale". A lien search can miss unpaid assessments, and Chapter 720 makes the buyer liable with the seller for those due up to the transfer, so rely on the estoppel. No clause puts the lien behind a first mortgage, but against one of record Chapter 720 dates it from a recorded claim of lien, so a bank-owned resale goes to underwriting.

From 23 December 1998 until 5 February 2001, no supplement put the master covenants of record against these lots, though the declaration holds the lots subject to them (p. 1).

WCI Communities, Inc. made both screen-enclosure amendments as "successor by merger" of WCI Communities Limited Partnership, with no merger document in the table. WCI could amend alone until three months after 90% of the lots sold, but neither amendment says WCI still could (Art. V ¶ 9, p. 12). These gaps and both amendments' execution flaws matter to underwriting only if a closing turns on a screen enclosure. Owners amend by "not less than 66-2/3% vote of the entire membership" at a meeting, with WCI joining while it owns a lot and the change affects its interest.

The covenants run to 23 December 2028, then renew every 10 years unless a majority of lots record otherwise (Art. V ¶ 10, p. 12). That day the declaration turns 30, the earliest date Florida's Marketable Record Title Act (MRTA) can begin, lot by lot, to cut off covenants nobody preserved, as the master's MRTA point explains. The master's 2024 preservation notice omits the declaration, and the table holds no Colony notice.

The Colony association maintains Parcel C, the private road, and the buffer Parcels B-1 to B-4, which become its common area once WCI conveys them (Art. I ¶ 7, p. 2; Art. II ¶ 1.B–F, pp. 3–4). The Property Appraiser lists the association as their owner under a multi-parcel quit-claim deed dated 10 August 2006 (OR 42634/1468). It shows the master owning Parcel A, Heron Bay Boulevard, a roadway, drainage and utility parcel, under a quit-claim deed dated 11 April 2008 (OR 45330/1168). We read neither deed. The plat gives Block A–C owners, "and not the public", an ingress and egress easement over Parcel C, which it names "N.W. 71 Street". The Appraiser lists no home there and addresses the road as NW 126th Terrace.