Once again the FHA’s Legislative Action Committee is posting a multiple-choice quiz to test your knowledge about your rights as a floating homeowner. This week’s question is: You’re selling your home and you and the buyers have agreed on a price and conditions. The buyers need financing to complete the...
Joe Novitski, chair of the Floating Homes Association’s Legislative Action Committee has crafted a series of quizzes to help you test your knowledge of your rights has a floating homeowner. We’ll be running one a week for the next few weeks. Here’s multiple choice question number one: You’re selling your...
At the end of February, your Floating Homes Association initiated a funding campaign to help offset the costs of outside legal counsel. Donations to the Floating Home Residency Law (FHRL) Legal Fund have helped us obtain the valuable legal advice we need to continue protecting our interests as owners and renters...
A capacity crowd filled the Seahorse Restaurant for the Floating Homes Association’s annual membership meeting and party on February 24. Those attending learned that the FHA had a busy year that included two very successful Day in the Park events, the purchase of new shopping carts for all docks, the...
The following report comes from the Legislative Action Committee of the Floating Homes Association: Our active Sausalito floating home community has just stopped a year-long attempt to roll back homeowner protections incorporated in the 2023 Floating Home Residency Law. For now, Assemblymember Damon Connolly has rejected a proposal, launched by marina owners last...
The FHA’s Legal Action Committee (LAC) continues to pursue amending the Floating Homes Residency Law to address vacancy control, passthrough fees, and long-term leases in a way that is fair to all: owners of newer and larger homes, owners of smaller and older homes, and the marina operators themselves. The...
Urgent Message from FHA President Pete Hudson: The FHA has initiated a funding campaign to help the FHA offset the costs for outside legal counsel. These costs could reach $11,500. We need your support. Your donation will help ensure that the FHA can obtain valuable legal advice. Please consider donating...
The Legal Action Committee (LAC) of the Floating Homes Association continues to meet with County officials to iron out possible proposed changes to the Floating Home Residency Law, specifically the provisions that which went into effect in January 2023 limiting increases on berth rents upon sale of a floating home....
After gathering input from residents of all 10 Sausalito docks covered by the recently enacted rent control amendment to the Floating Homes Residency Law (FHRL), members of the Floating Homes Association’s Legal Action Committee (LAC) have been meeting with county and state officials to discuss possible changes to the legislation....
The Legal Action Committee (LAC) of the Floating Homes Association recently held a series of dock meetings to gather community input on possible changes to AB252, the floating home rent control law that was enacted at the beginning of 2023. At issue is the amount marina operators can raise berth...