Florida Landlord-Tenant Laws

Verified July 8, 2026 Updated September 5, 2026

Enacted but not yet in force. This page reflects the law in force today. The following measure has been signed and takes effect on the date shown:

HB 1293 (ch. 2026-143, Laws of Florida) — Signed but not yet effective: from October 1, 2026 the seven-day no-cure notice under section 83.56(2)(a) gains a new listed example of noncompliance the tenant is not given an opportunity to cure — an act of fraudulent entry of a residential dwelling unit that violates new section 817.537(2) (obtaining possession through a materially false written statement of identity on a rental application, through forged or counterfeit documents, or by impersonating the person named on the application), regardless of whether criminal proceedings have commenced. The notice periods and the rest of the eviction track do not change. The Florida Statutes host already prints the amended text of section 83.56(2)(a) without an effective-date marker; until October 1, 2026 the pre-amendment list governs. Status: Approved by the Governor June 12, 2026 and filed with the Secretary of State the same day as chapter 2026-143; section 3 of the act sets the effective date at October 1, 2026. (checked September 5, 2026).

Florida at a glance

Rule	Florida	Cited to
Max security deposit	No statutory cap	F.S. 83.49 +2 more
Deposit return deadline	15 days	F.S. 83.49 +2 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 days	F.S. 83.56 +6 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

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Florida Landlord-Tenant Laws (verified July 8, 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 August 12, 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 — rent is due at the start of each rental period without demand (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 about a week of calendar time.

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 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.

Changes since last full verification

The Verified date above (July 8, 2026) marks the last time every figure on this page was verified end-to-end against official state sources. The changes below were published since then, each verified against the official source it names (what these dates mean).

Updated, September 5, 2026 — Florida: chapter 2026-143 (HB 1293), effective October 1, 2026, is typed as pending: an act of fraudulent entry of a residential dwelling unit that violates new § 817.537(2) joins the examples of noncompliance in § 83.56(2)(a) for which the tenant gets no opportunity to cure. Until that date the pre-amendment list governs.
Correction, August 29, 2026 — Deposit-interest prose corrections from a primary-source re-read of every state's law: IA unsupported after-five-years inference removed (Iowa Code 562A.12 stops at the five-year landlord allocation) and the anti-commingling rule narrowed to the landlord's personal funds; FL commingling bar scoped to the two account options in 83.49(1)(a)-(b); IL local line names Chicago only and the Department announces the qualifying bank's rate; NJ 46:8-19's ten-unit tier stated as a mandatory vehicle rule (money-market fund or variable-rate account); MN unverified pre-2003 5.5% figure removed and 504B.178 subd. 7's bad-faith presumption with its two-week-after-suit cure window added; NM 47-8-18's rate reference records the 1986 federal ceiling expiry alongside the 1989 agency abolition; VA repeal pinned to July 1, 2014 (accrual duty) and January 1, 2015 (rate schedule) under 2014 Acts c. 651 enactment clause 4; MO 99.040 carve-out stated in the statute's own scope words; AZ mobile-home-park deposit cell gains A.R.S. 33-1431(B)'s five-percent-minimum annual interest duty (paid or compounded annually) with the 33-1431(D) doubling remedy.

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.