Don J. Milner, attorney with Fennemore Craig, P.C. on behalf of Retirement Housing Foundation and Foundation Property Management

 

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION

Florida Real Estate Commission

Corrected Notice of Disposition: The Florida Real Estate Commission hereby gives notice of the issuance of an Order regarding the Petition for Declaratory Statement, filed on January 7, 2015, by Don J. Milner, attorney with Fennemore Craig, P.C. on behalf of Retirement Housing Foundation and Foundation Property Management. The Notice of Petition for Declaratory Statement was published in Vol. 41, No. 14, of the January 22, 2015 Florida Administrative Register. The Commission considered the Petition at duly-noticed public meetings on February 17, 2015 and March 17, 2015. The Petition sought the Commission’s interpretation of Sections 475.011(2) and (4), F.S., and further sought an opinion on whether Petitioners are exempt from the requirement of having a real estate license, when providing property management services including maintenance, operations management, and leasing services for Petitioner’s affiliate companies’ real property.

The Commission’s Order, filed March 19, 2015, grants the petition because the Commission finds that the Petitioners are exempt pursuant to §§ 475.011(2) and (4), Florida Statutes, from maintaining a Florida real estate broker or agent license when Petitioners’ salaried or hourly employees provide property management services including maintenance, advertising, operations management, and leasing for real property which is owned by the Petitioners’ affiliated companies.

A copy of the Commission’s Order may be obtained by contacting: Lori Crawford, Executive Director, Division of Real Estate, 400 West Robinson Street, Suite N801, Orlando, Florida 32801.