Condo Association Meetings Back to Annual

[Sandisw]

Per the Condo Association News on the DVC website, new legislation was passed in July 2025 that only requires annual meetings...that means no September meeting will be happening.

 

[mkatsy]

Per the Condo Association News on the DVC website, new legislation was passed in July 2025 that only requires annual meetings...that means no September meeting will be happening.

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Oh no … they only take a handful of questions from the whole membership. They must be so relieved they don’t have to actually speak with us one on one.

 

[DebbieB]

Oh no … they only take a handful of questions from the whole membership. They must be so relieved they don’t have to actually speak with us one on one.

It sounds like it will still be separate meetings.

 

[eticketplease]

Per the Condo Association News on the DVC website, new legislation was passed in July 2025 that only requires annual meetings...that means no September meeting will be happening.

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Sandi are CFW different because they are in the trust or because the structure integrity doesn’t have to be checked? Or both?

 

[Sandisw]

Sandi are CFW different because they are in the trust or because the structure integrity doesn’t have to be checked? Or both?

Yes, they are being sold as a RTU plan in a trust vs a leashold condiminum, like all the rest, so they are not covered by the same laws. If you read the POS, you will notice that they only reference FL 721 - The Timeshare statutes vs. FL 718 which relates to condos.

 

[drusba]

Sandi are CFW different because they are in the trust or because the structure integrity doesn’t have to be checked? Or both?

Just adding since one could get the impression that CFW is being purposefully deprived of the change. CFW is not a condominium resort like all the other DVC resorts. It is not subject to any of the provisions/rules that are in the Florida condominium statute, §718. It follows only the timeshare statute, §721. It has just annual meetings, and thus the other resorts have now simply returned to doing the same after a rather brief period being required to have quarterly meetings. Under §721.05(34), a Timeshare Estate (one that can have deeds showing an ownership interest), can be set up in various ways such as via the condominium statute, §718, the cooperative statute, §719, and the trust system used for CFW, where the property is owned in a trust and the members are beneficiaries of the trust.

Though §721, the timeshare statute, is also applicable to the condo resorts, the general rule is that §718 controls any condo resorts, so that if anything in §721 conflicts with anything in §718, §718 must be followed and not §721 That structural integrity act that, when passed, began the requirement for quarterly meetings which has now been changed back to annual meetings, applies to condo and coop resort buildings that are three or more stories high, and does not apply to CFW, both because it is not a condo or coop and because currently CFW has no residential buildings that are three or more stories high.

 

[Cfabar1]

Would not surprise me if Disney had a hand in changing the law… it was clear they were never really comfortable with these…

 

[mkatsy]

It will be interesting to see if this new requirement applies to Vero Beach which is in Indian River County and obviously more than 15 miles away from WDW.

 

[erionm]

It will be interesting to see if this new requirement applies to Vero Beach which is in Indian River County and obviously more than 15 miles away from WDW.

It affects all Florida DVC Resorts except for CFW.

 

[mkatsy]

It affects all Florida DVC Resorts except for CFW.

Yes, but it appears that there is an additional requirement in the most recent update that the annual meeting must be held in the same county as the condominium OR within 15 miles of it. (I don’t know if there is a timeshare exemption to that requirement, because nobody actually lives at VB).

 

[eticketplease]

It will be interesting to see if this new requirement applies to Vero Beach which is in Indian River County and obviously more than 15 miles away from WDW.

Good Question.