August 20, 2024 • 16 mins
Sal Nuzzo, of Consumers Defense, gave us a quick overview of things you might want on your radar if you live inside the Sunshine State borders.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
To show you dedication. I present to the jury.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Sal Newsoh, Executive director, Consumers Defense. Good morning, friends, welcome.
It is the third hour of the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Day thirteen hundred of us held hostage. Just
a moment of silence, please for our nation, Thank you
very much, Day fifty two thirteen of the radio program.
Coming up later in this hour, The legend, the story
(00:38):
behind Jose.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Can you see? And we will explain Jose's last name,
but first he's already a legend. Oh, you have no.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Idea, You have no idea. Anyway, We welcome to the program.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Sale News. Oh yeah, good morning. You are are just here.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You are on your way to other duties, but yet
you make time to stop by here.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, doing the show and then heading right to the airport.
No rest for the weary. No, it's been I never
thought i'd be in a role where I was traveling
more than I was at JMI, but someone figured it out.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I know you're new to the position at Consumers Defense.
It's a nationwide advocacy group, and I'm just curious. Have
you gotten a sense of the flow in terms of
is this just a year round or are there going
to be busier seasons than others.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I could say this with even for JMI as well
as consumers Defense still trying to find the non busy season.
I was told when I started at JMI, like their
cycles and it was just you know, all the way,
fifth year, the whole time. My dad, may he rest
in peace, told me when I got my first job
(01:55):
at the age of twenty two, first career job. He said,
remember something. When you're older, they'll hire you for experience.
Right now, they're hiring you for stamina. And I am
now forty nine, going to be fifty, and I'm still
waiting to get hired for experience. I apparently, apparently stamina
is what I've got going for me.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
All Right, we've got three segments today. Let's start with
the Governor.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Governor, so I thought it'd be helpful for us to
unpack something that happened a couple of weeks back. We
were going to be on last Monday, but the storm
Governor got a loss in court on the Stop Woke Act.
And I think this highlights an important distinction that I'm
glad we have this backstop and it's a good lesson
on the checks and balances because the distinction between the
(02:44):
government mandating what might happen in a public employment setting
versus what an employer in a private setting is allowed
to do as a condition of their employment. So you've
got things like mandating vaccines, mandating train mandating certain types
of things that can be discussed versus others. And so
(03:05):
the governor in the Stopwoke Act had a restriction on
DEI training and all of these other things that happened.
He had it in a public setting, but it also
applied to private employers. Now, if I can understand if
I am a private employer and I have a particular
desire to have any kind of training as long as
(03:28):
it's legal, you know, within the bounds of what's currently legal.
And I want to teach individuals what my perspective is
on diversity or whatever it means, whatever it means. And
I'm not a publicly traded company. I'm not subject to
SEC regulations in those things. That's where the court came
down and said, no, as a private employer, you have
(03:50):
that right. So that's something where.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
And then the employee has the right to not take
the job exactly, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And so I think this is telling and it may
serve as a bit of a balance as the next
legislature and those thereafter come forward and say, all right,
whether it's with this governor or a future one, how
are we going to balance a need to you know,
maintain certain things in the public setting versus you know,
(04:18):
not overstepping the line and running the risk of litigation.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Remember the days when times were good and life was simple.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He still lives there. The Morning Show with Preston Scott
on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Salanders are with me from Consumers Defense, talking legislative related things,
Florida governance and the like, and Florida Governor rhnd Is
sant Is. We've said it a few times since he
left the campaign trail. It's kind of feels like good
to have him back home.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Oh yeah, And I mean there's this national narrative that
wants to put him in a box where he's just
you know, out to pasture lane, duck whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No, no one is.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
He's got two more or legislative sessions, plus probably an
outsize amount of influence on how the campaign to replace him,
to succeed him goes. And you've got a number of
folks in the mix. The other part is he's young.
I think he's only forty three. Maybe I'm older than
the governor. He's got a lot of time left. He
(05:22):
leaves office January of twenty twenty seven, which is when
the inauguration is, which is only a year from the
caucuses and primaries of the next presidential cycle. So there's
a lot of discussion that I think is gonna happen.
Uh well, you know, yep. But the where does he
(05:46):
go from here? Sure question is going to be a
whole series of things to unpack it. If Trump wins,
does he get appointed to some cabinet agency? I think,
you know, I don't see Ron DeSantis as like Secretary
of the Interior, some low level thing, but attorney general
it could be he is an attorney You've got a
(06:07):
number of different ways in which the governor could spend
the remainder of his time in public service, which could
be several decades depending on what transpires the legislature. Obviously,
they're all busy trying to get reelected yep.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And that's not lost on me. So there's really not
a lot they're doing right now. Well, they're campaigning right
and in the next segment. I'll think we'll talk about
one potential special session that may pop up just based
on some things. But you've got all one hundred and
twenty House seats and half of the Senate seats, so
twenty of the forty are up for reelection. It's an
(06:46):
even number year, So you have a lot of members
reaching the end of their tenure due to the term limits,
So eight members of the Senate termout, so at a
minimum you'll have a twenty percent turnover for that chamber.
But you also have a number of House members that
are running for Senate seats, so they'll come in with
(07:08):
a degree of experience in the House. There are fifteen
members terming out now because of the redistricting maps, the
vast majority of the House seats are either in safe
are d hands. They just that's the way it's transpired
over the last several cycles over the decades. Do we
see that changing at all with how the demographics are
(07:30):
changing and how Republicans now are dominant in the state
in nearly all of the counties. I think there's what
five counties six counties left that are Democrats.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
There are five counties that went for whoever ran against
run to Santaslie. I think it was Charlie cris So
you've got those five. I think you will continue to
have more. The safe D seats may become lean D seats,
or the lean D seats may become competitive seats on
(08:03):
the House side in the state House, the eight to
twenty primary, the August twenty primary, is going to determine
the outcome of a lot of those races. So you'll
have folks coming in that'll know they're coming into the
house basically because of the nature of the seat pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Running basically on a posed from the other side.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, for the most part, and in many cases they
will run unopposed in the general, So the primary absolutely
decides it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Do you anticipate much change in the plus minus ds
rs in the legislative legislative makeup.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I don't anticipate too many flips there, maybe a couple.
My guess is the Republicans have likely hit the peak
when they got to eighty five in the prior cycle
and twenty seven in the Senate. There's a couple of
primaries that are going to be a bit telling. So
Senator Travis Hudson, he's out in the Daytona DeLand area.
He's turning out. This one's got an intriguing primary because
(09:02):
the House leader, Tom Leak, is fighting a guy named
Derrick David Shore, who's uh, it's a competitive district now,
Tom Leaks back by the entire Republican legislature. Just about
Shore was endorsed by Trump and so that's making this
very competitive.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Soumph.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
No, it was just I think David Shore went above
and beyond and just got Donald Trump to endorse him.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, it's an intriguing one because it's now competitive and
Tom Leak, who I thought would have been a shoe in,
is having to spend a lot of money to get
to get across the finish line.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
WFLA on your phone with the iHeart Radio app and
on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and Sonos.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So yes, an iHeart Radio station.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Twenty one past the ap Our Morning Show with Preston Scotts.
Can you see over there in Studio one A, I
am occupying Studio one B enjoining me for one more segment.
This He was just commenting this suddenly turned into a
sprint as opposed to a mid range race.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I know, I got so used to five segments and
it's great, we could spread things out, and then all
of a sudden, now it's like it's like the forty
yard dash. Yeah, I wasn't as prepared as I thought.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well, actually you might be over prepared the upcoming session.
When did they you know, obviously, can they start before
November kind of doing anything substantial?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Likely, what they're going to have is their orientation sessions
and workshops to get new members acclimated to the process
and go through all of that. I'm guessing that may
happen in December, but you're not going to see any
substantive committee weeks likely until after the holidays, because they
don't start until March.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
There may be one in between Thanksgiving in Christmas possible,
but the lion's share of it is going to be
after the new year.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
In your experience, when they have the election year stuff
where they bump it up and they hold committee weeks
in September October, then there's a bit of a break
for the holidays before the session starts in January. Yeah,
versus committee weeks rolling right into session. Does it change
the outcome of how things get done or what gets done?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I don't really think it does. I think they've gotten
it to where they've been doing this for a number
of cycles now, and it just seems like there's not
too much of a gap in the direction and how
they kind of undertake committee weeks versus rolling into the session.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And bear in mind, a lot of that is.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Determined by, you know, what the governor's agenda is, whoever
the governor is, and how aggressive they're gonna kind of
push that and how early they want to get press
conferences out and those kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It occurs to me there are three key people here
that will determine a lot of what we're going to
get teed up in the session. It's the governor and
the incoming Senate President and the incoming House speaker.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
So Rohnda Santis will be working with Danny Perez out
of the Miami area as the incoming House speaker. He's
been in the legislature more than anybody in his class
because he was what they call a red shirt freshman.
He hadn't came in early because they had a replacement
election back when he started, so he's had an extra
(12:27):
year of learning and kind of the process.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Your impressions of him. Very conservative.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
In discussions with him, he wants to continue to tackle healthcare,
look at the housing issues, particularly in the property insurance arena.
I believe he is in the healthcare industry in his
full time job, although I may be confused there, but
very intelligent, good mind.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Young.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
He was the national chair for the ALEC Group, which
is the amy Can Legislative Exchange Conference. It is a
gathering of thousands of conservative lawmakers from around the country.
He was the national chair of that last year. Very
involved across the country and helping to promote young conservative lawmakers.
(13:14):
On the other side, in the Senate, you've got Ben Albritton,
who's a little bit older, but I won't you know,
not that old. Yeah, he's I believe he's from the
central Florida area down in Tampa region, if I remember correctly,
and I have in full disclosure, I've engaged less with
(13:34):
a senator all Britain, but a kind of an old
fashioned conservative red meat issues and likely going to see
a lot of the continuation of what the prior legislators
legislatures have done. I don't know if it'll be as
aggressive as what Paul Renner and Kathleen Pasadomo kind of accomplished,
but they were doing a lot with a governor with
(13:57):
the winded his back, and so that me is going
to be the most intriguing piece of this is what
is the relationship between the governor and the two chambers
in the final two years of his term.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
What do you think of the issues that are going
to be the most important that they have to tackle.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
One of the big ones that kind of has popped
up is the issue of the impact of the new
condo regulations passed in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I believe in.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Last year they actually gave complexes condos until twenty twenty
five to implement the new changes.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
So under the new.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Law, any building over thirty years old has got to
be is required now to have a full blown architectural
and engineering structural assessment that had been kind of put
on the back burner by a prior law under the
christ era where they allowed the condo board to say
we're not going to do that. Well, that changed, so
(14:52):
those inspections, along with the bill for any repairs to
address problems, get passed to the condo owners in special
assessment and they can be in the tens or even
in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars. So think
about this, what if you're a retired person, you're on
a fixed income, all of a sudden you're faced with
the prospect.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You thought you were retiring and that place is paid for,
but it's not.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Suddenly, And what is happening is people are unloading those condos.
So a company named ISG did some digging. Ninety percent
of the properties listed in Miami data over thirty years
old that are being actively listed, So people are trying
to unload these. It creates a flood in the market.
The prices are dropping. It's a challenge. And so one
(15:33):
of the things that I think may pop up. And
a former Senator, Jeff Brandis, is calling for lawmakers to
have a special session on the state trying to aid
this in some way. Okay, in the same way that
you have septic to sewer can kind of the state
helping mitigate those costs. They may need to somehow figure
out how to get people over the hump in this
(15:55):
first round when it pops.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Something to keep an eye on. Definitely will probably be visiting.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Absolutely this is something we will come back to at
least one or two times over the course of the
next several months.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
All right, see you next month, see you next month.
Good to be with you.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Thank you, Sir Salnwsoh with US twenty seven, almost twenty
eight past the hour
To show you dedication. I present to the jury.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Sal Newsoh, Executive director, Consumers Defense. Good morning, friends, welcome.
It is the third hour of the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Day thirteen hundred of us held hostage. Just
a moment of silence, please for our nation, Thank you
very much, Day fifty two thirteen of the radio program.
Coming up later in this hour, The legend, the story
(00:38):
behind Jose.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Can you see? And we will explain Jose's last name,
but first he's already a legend. Oh, you have no.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Idea, You have no idea. Anyway, We welcome to the program.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Sale News. Oh yeah, good morning. You are are just here.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You are on your way to other duties, but yet
you make time to stop by here.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, doing the show and then heading right to the airport.
No rest for the weary. No, it's been I never
thought i'd be in a role where I was traveling
more than I was at JMI, but someone figured it out.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I know you're new to the position at Consumers Defense.
It's a nationwide advocacy group, and I'm just curious. Have
you gotten a sense of the flow in terms of
is this just a year round or are there going
to be busier seasons than others.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I could say this with even for JMI as well
as consumers Defense still trying to find the non busy season.
I was told when I started at JMI, like their
cycles and it was just you know, all the way,
fifth year, the whole time. My dad, may he rest
in peace, told me when I got my first job
(01:55):
at the age of twenty two, first career job. He said,
remember something. When you're older, they'll hire you for experience.
Right now, they're hiring you for stamina. And I am
now forty nine, going to be fifty, and I'm still
waiting to get hired for experience. I apparently, apparently stamina
is what I've got going for me.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
All Right, we've got three segments today. Let's start with
the Governor.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Governor, so I thought it'd be helpful for us to
unpack something that happened a couple of weeks back. We
were going to be on last Monday, but the storm
Governor got a loss in court on the Stop Woke Act.
And I think this highlights an important distinction that I'm
glad we have this backstop and it's a good lesson
on the checks and balances because the distinction between the
(02:44):
government mandating what might happen in a public employment setting
versus what an employer in a private setting is allowed
to do as a condition of their employment. So you've
got things like mandating vaccines, mandating train mandating certain types
of things that can be discussed versus others. And so
(03:05):
the governor in the Stopwoke Act had a restriction on
DEI training and all of these other things that happened.
He had it in a public setting, but it also
applied to private employers. Now, if I can understand if
I am a private employer and I have a particular
desire to have any kind of training as long as
(03:28):
it's legal, you know, within the bounds of what's currently legal.
And I want to teach individuals what my perspective is
on diversity or whatever it means, whatever it means. And
I'm not a publicly traded company. I'm not subject to
SEC regulations in those things. That's where the court came
down and said, no, as a private employer, you have
(03:50):
that right. So that's something where.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
And then the employee has the right to not take
the job exactly, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And so I think this is telling and it may
serve as a bit of a balance as the next
legislature and those thereafter come forward and say, all right,
whether it's with this governor or a future one, how
are we going to balance a need to you know,
maintain certain things in the public setting versus you know,
(04:18):
not overstepping the line and running the risk of litigation.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Remember the days when times were good and life was simple.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He still lives there. The Morning Show with Preston Scott
on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Salanders are with me from Consumers Defense, talking legislative related things,
Florida governance and the like, and Florida Governor rhnd Is
sant Is. We've said it a few times since he
left the campaign trail. It's kind of feels like good
to have him back home.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Oh yeah, And I mean there's this national narrative that
wants to put him in a box where he's just
you know, out to pasture lane, duck whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No, no one is.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
He's got two more or legislative sessions, plus probably an
outsize amount of influence on how the campaign to replace him,
to succeed him goes. And you've got a number of
folks in the mix. The other part is he's young.
I think he's only forty three. Maybe I'm older than
the governor. He's got a lot of time left. He
(05:22):
leaves office January of twenty twenty seven, which is when
the inauguration is, which is only a year from the
caucuses and primaries of the next presidential cycle. So there's
a lot of discussion that I think is gonna happen.
Uh well, you know, yep. But the where does he
(05:46):
go from here? Sure question is going to be a
whole series of things to unpack it. If Trump wins,
does he get appointed to some cabinet agency? I think,
you know, I don't see Ron DeSantis as like Secretary
of the Interior, some low level thing, but attorney general
it could be he is an attorney You've got a
(06:07):
number of different ways in which the governor could spend
the remainder of his time in public service, which could
be several decades depending on what transpires the legislature. Obviously,
they're all busy trying to get reelected yep.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And that's not lost on me. So there's really not
a lot they're doing right now. Well, they're campaigning right
and in the next segment. I'll think we'll talk about
one potential special session that may pop up just based
on some things. But you've got all one hundred and
twenty House seats and half of the Senate seats, so
twenty of the forty are up for reelection. It's an
(06:46):
even number year, So you have a lot of members
reaching the end of their tenure due to the term limits,
So eight members of the Senate termout, so at a
minimum you'll have a twenty percent turnover for that chamber.
But you also have a number of House members that
are running for Senate seats, so they'll come in with
(07:08):
a degree of experience in the House. There are fifteen
members terming out now because of the redistricting maps, the
vast majority of the House seats are either in safe
are d hands. They just that's the way it's transpired
over the last several cycles over the decades. Do we
see that changing at all with how the demographics are
(07:30):
changing and how Republicans now are dominant in the state
in nearly all of the counties. I think there's what
five counties six counties left that are Democrats.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
There are five counties that went for whoever ran against
run to Santaslie. I think it was Charlie cris So
you've got those five. I think you will continue to
have more. The safe D seats may become lean D seats,
or the lean D seats may become competitive seats on
(08:03):
the House side in the state House, the eight to
twenty primary, the August twenty primary, is going to determine
the outcome of a lot of those races. So you'll
have folks coming in that'll know they're coming into the
house basically because of the nature of the seat pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Running basically on a posed from the other side.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, for the most part, and in many cases they
will run unopposed in the general, So the primary absolutely
decides it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Do you anticipate much change in the plus minus ds
rs in the legislative legislative makeup.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I don't anticipate too many flips there, maybe a couple.
My guess is the Republicans have likely hit the peak
when they got to eighty five in the prior cycle
and twenty seven in the Senate. There's a couple of
primaries that are going to be a bit telling. So
Senator Travis Hudson, he's out in the Daytona DeLand area.
He's turning out. This one's got an intriguing primary because
(09:02):
the House leader, Tom Leak, is fighting a guy named
Derrick David Shore, who's uh, it's a competitive district now,
Tom Leaks back by the entire Republican legislature. Just about
Shore was endorsed by Trump and so that's making this
very competitive.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Soumph.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
No, it was just I think David Shore went above
and beyond and just got Donald Trump to endorse him.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, it's an intriguing one because it's now competitive and
Tom Leak, who I thought would have been a shoe in,
is having to spend a lot of money to get
to get across the finish line.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
WFLA on your phone with the iHeart Radio app and
on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and Sonos.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So yes, an iHeart Radio station.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Twenty one past the ap Our Morning Show with Preston Scotts.
Can you see over there in Studio one A, I
am occupying Studio one B enjoining me for one more segment.
This He was just commenting this suddenly turned into a
sprint as opposed to a mid range race.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I know, I got so used to five segments and
it's great, we could spread things out, and then all
of a sudden, now it's like it's like the forty
yard dash. Yeah, I wasn't as prepared as I thought.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well, actually you might be over prepared the upcoming session.
When did they you know, obviously, can they start before
November kind of doing anything substantial?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Likely, what they're going to have is their orientation sessions
and workshops to get new members acclimated to the process
and go through all of that. I'm guessing that may
happen in December, but you're not going to see any
substantive committee weeks likely until after the holidays, because they
don't start until March.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
There may be one in between Thanksgiving in Christmas possible,
but the lion's share of it is going to be
after the new year.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
In your experience, when they have the election year stuff
where they bump it up and they hold committee weeks
in September October, then there's a bit of a break
for the holidays before the session starts in January. Yeah,
versus committee weeks rolling right into session. Does it change
the outcome of how things get done or what gets done?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I don't really think it does. I think they've gotten
it to where they've been doing this for a number
of cycles now, and it just seems like there's not
too much of a gap in the direction and how
they kind of undertake committee weeks versus rolling into the session.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And bear in mind, a lot of that is.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Determined by, you know, what the governor's agenda is, whoever
the governor is, and how aggressive they're gonna kind of
push that and how early they want to get press
conferences out and those kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It occurs to me there are three key people here
that will determine a lot of what we're going to
get teed up in the session. It's the governor and
the incoming Senate President and the incoming House speaker.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
So Rohnda Santis will be working with Danny Perez out
of the Miami area as the incoming House speaker. He's
been in the legislature more than anybody in his class
because he was what they call a red shirt freshman.
He hadn't came in early because they had a replacement
election back when he started, so he's had an extra
(12:27):
year of learning and kind of the process.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Your impressions of him. Very conservative.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
In discussions with him, he wants to continue to tackle healthcare,
look at the housing issues, particularly in the property insurance arena.
I believe he is in the healthcare industry in his
full time job, although I may be confused there, but
very intelligent, good mind.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Young.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
He was the national chair for the ALEC Group, which
is the amy Can Legislative Exchange Conference. It is a
gathering of thousands of conservative lawmakers from around the country.
He was the national chair of that last year. Very
involved across the country and helping to promote young conservative lawmakers.
(13:14):
On the other side, in the Senate, you've got Ben Albritton,
who's a little bit older, but I won't you know,
not that old. Yeah, he's I believe he's from the
central Florida area down in Tampa region, if I remember correctly,
and I have in full disclosure, I've engaged less with
(13:34):
a senator all Britain, but a kind of an old
fashioned conservative red meat issues and likely going to see
a lot of the continuation of what the prior legislators
legislatures have done. I don't know if it'll be as
aggressive as what Paul Renner and Kathleen Pasadomo kind of accomplished,
but they were doing a lot with a governor with
(13:57):
the winded his back, and so that me is going
to be the most intriguing piece of this is what
is the relationship between the governor and the two chambers
in the final two years of his term.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
What do you think of the issues that are going
to be the most important that they have to tackle.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
One of the big ones that kind of has popped
up is the issue of the impact of the new
condo regulations passed in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I believe in.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Last year they actually gave complexes condos until twenty twenty
five to implement the new changes.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
So under the new.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Law, any building over thirty years old has got to
be is required now to have a full blown architectural
and engineering structural assessment that had been kind of put
on the back burner by a prior law under the
christ era where they allowed the condo board to say
we're not going to do that. Well, that changed, so
(14:52):
those inspections, along with the bill for any repairs to
address problems, get passed to the condo owners in special
assessment and they can be in the tens or even
in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars. So think
about this, what if you're a retired person, you're on
a fixed income, all of a sudden you're faced with
the prospect.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You thought you were retiring and that place is paid for,
but it's not.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Suddenly, And what is happening is people are unloading those condos.
So a company named ISG did some digging. Ninety percent
of the properties listed in Miami data over thirty years
old that are being actively listed, So people are trying
to unload these. It creates a flood in the market.
The prices are dropping. It's a challenge. And so one
(15:33):
of the things that I think may pop up. And
a former Senator, Jeff Brandis, is calling for lawmakers to
have a special session on the state trying to aid
this in some way. Okay, in the same way that
you have septic to sewer can kind of the state
helping mitigate those costs. They may need to somehow figure
out how to get people over the hump in this
(15:55):
first round when it pops.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Something to keep an eye on. Definitely will probably be visiting.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Absolutely this is something we will come back to at
least one or two times over the course of the
next several months.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
All right, see you next month, see you next month.
Good to be with you.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Thank you, Sir Salnwsoh with US twenty seven, almost twenty
eight past the hour
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