CAM Newsletter-DBPR has a new look online

Ask Fred As a community association manager, you’re expected to be a law-abiding citizen. Question:  I recently pleaded guilting to a misdemeanor.  I know crimes must get reported to the licensing board, but is that just for felonies or are misdemeanors included?  Could you point me in the right direction on how to report my […]

Labor Day 2017

Gray Systems Inc. hopes you have a wonderful Labor Day Holiday Weekend.  

Duty of contractor to notify residential property owner of recovery fund

Florida Contractor Law

Section 489.140, F.S., provides that a Florida Homeowners’ Construction Recovery Fund must exist and kept as a separate account in the Professional Regulation Trust Fund. The existence of the fund isn’t of much use to a homeowner, however, if they’re unware that it exists and how to obtain funds from it. Section 489.1425, F.S., imposes […]

DBPR source for up-to-date information and hot topics

Florida Contractor DBPR

TheFlorida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) recently listed as one of its Hot Topics information about a contractor’s duty to provide a statement about the Florida Homeowners’ Construction Recovery Fund within the construction contract. Other current hot topics include provisions allowing U.S. Military Veterans to use experience gained in the military toward the […]

Better to bid your projects accurately than act in bad faith by underbidding

Question: I know there is a term for when a contractor enters into a contract on a project knowing that the bargain isn’t right, but I can’t recall what it is. I’m specifically talking about a contractor who signed a contract to build a house for $800,000 knowing that the house would cost well over […]