Florida Landlord-Tenant Laws

Verified October 1, 2026 Correction October 2, 2026

Florida at a glance

Rule	Florida	Cited to
Max security deposit	No statutory cap	F.S. 83.49 +6 more
Deposit return deadline	15 days	F.S. 83.49 +6 more
Rent-increase notice (month-to-month)	No statute — derived from termination notice	F.S. 83.57 +2 more
Statewide rent control / rent cap	No	F.S. 83.57 +2 more
Late-fee cap	No statutory cap	F.S. 83.46 +1 more
Entry notice	24 hours	F.S. 83.53
Eviction notice (nonpayment)	3 business days	F.S. 83.56 +7 more
Application fee cap	No statutory cap	Fla. Stat. § 83.49 +21 more
Interest owed on deposits	Conditional — owed only in certain circumstances	Fla. Stat. § 83.49 (deposit money or advance rent; duty of landlord and tenant) +3 more
Repair deadline after tenant notice	7 days	F.S. 83.51 (landlord's obligation to maintain premises) +15 more
Repair and deduct	No — no statute or decision authorizes it	F.S. 83.51 (landlord's obligation to maintain premises) +15 more
Landlord notice to end a month-to-month tenancy	30 days, to the end of a rental period	Fla. Stat. § 83.57 +20 more
Owner and agent identity disclosure	Required — in the lease or in a separate writing	§ 83.41, § 83.42, § 83.43, Fla. Stat. +25 more
In-force state hazard disclosures beyond the federal lead-paint rule	1	§ 83.41, § 83.42, § 83.43, Fla. Stat. +25 more
Pet deposit	Allowed, no cap	Fla. Stat. § 83.43 +26 more
Assistance animals: the state instrument	Documentation statute or rule	Fla. Stat. § 83.43 +26 more

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Florida Landlord-Tenant Laws (verified October 1, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/florida/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Florida statute it comes from on the linked topic page.

Local rent regulation in Florida

Florida law flatly bars cities and counties from adopting or keeping any measure that controls rents — the former pathway allowing one-year, referendum-approved rent control during a declared housing emergency was repealed in 2023 — though local governments may still use land-use tools like inclusionary housing ordinances to expand affordable housing.

Cited to Fla. Stat. § 166.043 (municipalities) , Fla. Stat. § 125.0103 (counties) · Verified October 1, 2026 · Full Florida rent-increase rules →

Florida landlord-tenant laws by topic

Florida security deposits

Florida sets no cap on residential security deposits, and a landlord must either return the deposit within 15 days of move-out or send a certified-mail (or statutory e-mail) notice of intent to claim within 30 days — miss that window and the right to keep any of the deposit is forfeited.

Florida rent increase notice

Florida has no statute setting a dedicated notice period for rent increases; the effective floor for a month-to-month tenancy is the termination-notice rule in F.S. 83.57(3) — not less than 30 days before the end of any monthly period — because a tenant who rejects the new rent is on notice the tenancy can end on that same timeline.

Florida late fees

Florida sets no statutory cap on residential late fees and mandates no grace period — unless the parties agree otherwise, rent is payable without demand or notice at the start of each rental period (F.S. 83.46(1)), and a late fee is collectable only if it is written into the lease, since it is purely a creature of contract.

Florida entry notice

Florida landlords must give at least 24 hours' notice before entering a rental unit to make repairs, and repair entries must happen between 7:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. — the 24-hour figure replaced the old 12-hour rule in 2022, so older leases and templates citing 12 hours are out of date.

Florida eviction process

Florida's eviction — an 'action for possession' in county court under summary procedure — starts with a 3-day pay-or-quit notice for nonpayment, counted in business days (Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays excluded), so the notice typically spans three to five calendar days, longer over a court holiday.

Florida application & screening fees

Florida does not cap or otherwise regulate what a landlord charges a person to apply for a home, and it sets no refund, receipt, or disclosure duty around that money; the one application-stage rule of general application is a seven-day decision-and-written-reason duty owed to applicants who are servicemembers.

Florida deposit interest

Florida requires a landlord to pay interest on a security deposit only when the landlord's own choice of how to hold the money triggers it, and the most common choice — a separate non-interest-bearing account — owes the tenant nothing.

Florida habitability & repairs

A Florida landlord must comply with the applicable building, housing, and health codes, and only where no such code applies must instead keep the structure, plumbing, and screens in the condition section 83.51(1) describes.

Florida lease termination

In Florida either side ends a monthly tenancy with thirty days' written notice given before the end of a monthly period, so the tenancy always ends at a period boundary and never thirty days after the notice lands.

Florida lease disclosures

Every Florida lease must carry the state's radon notice, and since October 1, 2025 a landlord letting for a year or longer must also hand the tenant a separate flood disclosure saying whether the unit has flooded, been the subject of a flood insurance claim or received flood assistance during this landlord's ownership.

Florida pets & assistance animals

Florida caps no deposit and no pet charge, so a landlord may set a pet deposit, a one-time pet fee and monthly pet rent at any amount.

Florida mobile home park laws

The Florida Mobile Home Act, chapter 723 of the Florida Statutes, covers a resident who owns a mobile home and rents a lot in a park offering ten or more lots: lot rent may rise only on 90 days' written notice, a tenancy may be ended only on one of five statutory grounds, closing a park takes six months' notice plus relocation money paid through a state fund, and a homeowners' association may buy the park by matching the price and terms within 45 days.

Florida Fair Market Rents (FY 2027) — HUD's benchmark rents for every Florida metro area and county.

Editable Florida deposit kit · Editable Florida disclosure packet — editable documents built on the verified Florida rules on this page, in Word, fillable PDF and Excel.

Changes since last full verification

The Verified date above (October 1, 2026) marks the last time every figure on this page was verified end-to-end against official sources. The changes below were published since then, each verified against the official source it names (what these dates mean).

Correction, October 2, 2026 — Notice periods now print in the unit each statute uses (correction). Entry notice: the statutes of Alabama, Arizona, Hawaii, Kentucky, Rhode Island and Washington say two days and Oklahoma's says one day, and those pages show days; Delaware's and Vermont's say 48 hours, and their pages, which had shown 2 days, now show 48 hours. Eviction notice for unpaid rent: California, Florida and Utah give three days that leave out Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, and their pages now show 3 business days, as does California's lease-violation notice; Nevada's shows 7 judicial days; Alabama's two notices show 7 business days. Each statute was read on its official site on October 1, 2026. No period changed.

How this record was verified: Direct read of 2025 Florida Statutes text on the official legislature site (leg.state.fl.us / Online Sunshine): F.S. 83.49 (full text), 83.53 (full text), 83.57 (full text), 166.043 (full text). Web verification of surrounding context (83.46, 83.505, 125.0103, 2023 ch. 2023-17 and ch. 2023-314 amendments) against official-source cross-references and multiple concurring secondary sources. October 1, 2026: every section the security deposit, rent increase, late fee, entry and eviction answers rest on was read again in the 2026 Florida Statutes on the Legislature's own sites (leg.state.fl.us and flsenate.gov), an edition that takes in the 2026 regular session and its special sessions: sections 83.43, 83.46, 83.49, 83.491, 83.505, 83.53, 83.56, 83.57, 83.575, 83.59, 83.60, 83.62, 83.67, 83.425, 125.0103, 166.043, 51.011, 723.002 and 817.537. Chapter 2026-143 (in force October 1, 2026) is the only 2026 law that amends one of them and is stated on the eviction page. The court rule on counting days (Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.514) was read as in force on July 1, 2026, and the damages test for late fees in the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Lefemine v. Baron.