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The Florida Housing Finance Corporation is preparing to begin processing applications for the Missing Middle Tax Exemption for the 2025 tax year. Some of the deadlines for processing exemption applications have changed. This...more
Broadly speaking, according to the Florida Department of Revenue, each Florida sale, amusement park admission, storage unit and rental is taxable (unless it falls under an exemption, such as nonprofits). More specifically,...more
It is customary for landlords to require their tenants to pay real estate taxes attributable to the landlord’s property being leased, along with other common area expenses like maintenance, insurance and the like. When there...more
On March 1, 2023, Orange County, Florida's Ordinance No. 2023-06 went into effect. The ordinance creates the new Office of Tenant Services and requires landlords to comply with new rules regarding notice requirements for rent...more
Tuesday, despite the Court’s order to remove the Rent Control Language from the ballot, the residents voted to approve Orange County’s rent control ordinance. The ordinance was placed on the ballot before the Fifth District...more
On June 27, 2022, Governor Ron DeSantis signed Miya’s Law, Senate Bill (SB) 898, to heighten the safety requirements for residential apartments. Miya’s Law, effective July 1, 2022, will have a significant impact on the daily...more
In a Florida commercial eviction, by statute where there is a court order requiring the tenant to pay rent into the court registry during the lawsuit and the tenant fails to pay, the tenant is considered to have waived its...more
Landlords in Miami-Dade County must now provide certain residential tenants with at least 60 days’ written notice before terminating a tenancy or imposing a rent increase of 5 percent or more....more
On Monday, September 1, 2020, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis extended (for a fifth time) a previous executive order that suspended and tolled the Florida statutes that provide for final action at the conclusion of a...more
Once again, on the last day before Florida’s modified eviction ban was due to expire, Gov. Ron DeSantis extended Executive Order 20-180, which restricts certain real estate evictions. Executive Order 20-180 is now effective...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: A new law in Florida takes aim at fraudulent requests for emotional support animals in housing by requiring that residents do more than provide online animal “registrations” or certificates, mandates that...more
Florida, like the majority of the United States, has enacted several economic protections in response to the coronavirus pandemic, including eviction moratoriums for the non-payment of rent. ...more
Governor DeSantis previously issued Executive Order 20-94 on April 2, 2020, suspending and tolling any statute providing for a mortgage foreclosure or residential eviction due to non-payment of rent that, after several...more
On July 29, 2020, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Executive Order 20-180 that extended (for a fourth time) his previous executive order which effectively put a moratorium in place on mortgage foreclosures and residential...more
This week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis extended, for a third time, a previous executive order that suspended and tolled any Florida Statute that allows landlords to evict residential tenants for non-payment of rent, and...more