JD Woods Law PLC is highlighting the firm's flat-fee HOA Dispute Response engagement this week. The service is built for Florida homeowners who have received a fine, a violation notice, or a threatened lien from their association and want a Chapter 720 response on attorney letterhead within 72 hours — not a months-long retainer.
Most HOA fines in Florida fail one of five procedural tests under Florida Statute §720.305(2)(b): the 14-day notice and opportunity to be heard, the independence of the fining committee, the committee's confirmation vote, the $100/$1,000 statutory caps, and the architectural-approval timeline in the CC&Rs. The firm's engagement is built to identify which of those defects apply, document them, and put the statute in front of the association's counsel before any lien is recorded.
What the engagement covers
- Records-access demand under §720.303(5) for the fining notice, fining committee composition, meeting minutes, and architectural file.
- Procedural-defect analysis against the five points of failure in §720.305(2)(b).
- Chapter 720 pre-suit letter under §720.311 on firm letterhead, framed in statutory language, with a deadline and a named court of competent jurisdiction.
- Coalition-letter option where multiple owners are affected by the same fining practice.
- 72-hour turnaround on a flat fee.
The companion article — 5 HOA Fining Defects That Make the Fine Unenforceable in Florida — walks through the statutory framework. Service details and the intake form are at /services/hoa-dispute-response. The broader homeowner-rights toolkit is at /pro-homeowner.