Everything you're responsible for as a landlord in Florida

Can a Tampa HOA or Condo Association Approve or Reject Your Tenant?

A landlord submits a tenant's application to the HOA, hears nothing for three weeks, and starts wondering whether the silence itself means something. For most applicants in Tampa, Florida law sets no deadline at all for that response, so the silence is just the association being slow. For one specific category of applicant, it's the opposite: the law sets a hard 7-day clock, and missing it can mean the board loses its say entirely.

Can a Tampa HOA or Condo Association Restrict Long-Term Rentals?

An owner in a Tampa HOA community decides to rent out the house, pulls up the declaration, and finds a rental cap the board adopted two years ago. The question that actually matters isn't what the cap says. It's whether that amendment can even reach an owner who already held the title before the board passed it, and Florida answers that question differently depending on whether the property is a condo or an HOA.

Can a Miami HOA or Condo Association Restrict Long-Term Rentals?

An owner buys a Brickell condo, checks that the city and county allow short-term rentals in that zoning district, lists it, and gets a cease-and-desist letter from the association a week later. The city's permission never mattered, the building's own documents banned it regardless. A separate owner across town who bought before a new leasing cap took effect finds out Florida law actually protects their existing right to rent, something a landlord in most other states doesn't get. Miami rental restrictions run on two tracks, the government's rules and the association's own, and only one of them offers a grandfathering guarantee.

Can a Miami HOA or Condo Association Approve or Reject Your Tenant?

A landlord signs a lease, submits the tenant's paperwork to the association, and finds out weeks later the board can actually reject the tenant outright, something that isn't true in every state. Florida gives condo and HOA associations real approval power when their documents grant it, tied to specific statutory limits on why a board can say no. A separate landlord across town skips a step in the county's voucher-protection ordinance and finds out that mistake alone can trigger a discrimination claim regardless of what the association ever decided.

Can an Orlando HOA or Condo Association Approve or Reject Your Tenant?

A landlord submits a tenant's lease application to an Orlando condo board expecting the same approval process as anywhere else in Florida, and mostly gets it, the statewide Chapter 718 framework doesn't change city to city. What does change is what happens outside the association's own process: whether Orange County's Section 8 voucher protection applies to the landlord's own screening decision has been genuinely unsettled since 2023, and the answer turns on a legal technicality most general guidance glosses over.

Can an Orlando HOA or Condo Association Restrict Long-Term Rentals?

An owner buys a condo near International Drive planning to run it as a short-term rental between long-term leases, and assumes Florida's business-friendly reputation means the city has little say. The city, it turns out, has less say than the association does. Florida law limits how far a city can go in restricting vacation rentals, but that same preemption doesn't reach a condo or HOA's own governing documents, and Orlando's rental-restriction landscape runs on the same statewide condo framework already shaping the rest of Florida, with its own local wrinkles layered on top.