A common defense raised by owners who find themselves on the wrong side of a covenant enforcement action is to allege an association’s failure to enforce the covenant at issue against all violators and instead only selectively enforcing it. The defense of selective enforcement is based upon a case decided by the Supreme Court of Florida in 1979. Essentially, an association cannot enforce the restrictions in the recorded documents or those contained in the rules and regulations in an inconsistent or arbitrary manner.     Read the article…………………….