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Florida Notice to Owner

The workflow collects the statutory project and claimant facts, generates the Florida Notice to Owner language, and routes separate Certified Mail pieces to the owner and every additional recipient required by the supported claimant tier.

Prepare and mail your Florida Notice to Owner by Certified Mail.

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Supported project and claimant
Is the improvement to real property located in Florida?, Is this a private construction project rather than a federal, state, county, municipal, or other public project?, and Is this an ordinary improvement to a specific property rather than subdivision or off-site improvement work under section 713.04?
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Supported project and claimant

Confirm that this is the ordinary Florida private-project lane supported by this workflow. Unsupported answers are stopped before a notice is generated.

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Is the improvement to real property located in Florida? *
Is this a private construction project rather than a federal, state, county, municipal, or other public project? *
Is this an ordinary improvement to a specific property rather than subdivision or off-site improvement work under section 713.04? *
Does the owner's direct contract for this improvement exceed $2,500? *

Section 713.02(5) generally exempts an improvement when the direct contract price is $2,500 or less. This workflow supports the non-exempt lane.

Choose the party that hired you or receives your materials or equipment. The selection determines whether a contractor or relevant-subcontractor copy is required.

Did the claimant contract directly with the owner? *

A direct-to-owner claimant is outside this Notice to Owner workflow.

Did the claimant contract directly with the direct contractor? *

Your answer must match the claimant relationship selected above. It determines whether the contractor-copy and private-bond Notice to Contractor rules apply.

Does Florida law require the claimant to hold a license for the furnished work? *
Has the owner already disbursed final payment after receiving the contractor's final-payment affidavit? *

That final payment may create a cutoff earlier than 45 days after first furnishing. This workflow stops this lane when the answer is Yes.

Is this private project covered by a payment bond under section 713.23? *

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The form is ready to fill now. If you want supporting instructions, mailing notes, or source links, they are below.

Important details+

Answer the project-fit, claimant-tier, timing, and recipient questions. We generate the statutory notice and create a separate mailpiece for the owner and each additional recipient required by the supported Florida private-project path.

What you need+
  • An ordinary non-exempt private improvement to Florida real property
  • A supported subcontractor, sub-subcontractor, material-supplier, or equipment-lessor relationship without a direct contract with the owner
  • The claimant's first furnishing date and the notice date
  • The owner name and address plus the contractor, relevant subcontractor, service-agent, construction-lender, or copy-designee information required by the project records
  • A general description of the labor, services, materials, or equipment furnished
  • An authorized signer and signature
  • Optional supporting project records (optional) — Attach only records you intentionally want mailed behind the statutory notice, such as a Notice of Commencement or payment-bond copy. Supporting records are not required to generate the notice.
Form summary+

The workflow collects the statutory project and claimant facts, generates the Florida Notice to Owner language, and routes separate Certified Mail pieces to the owner and every additional recipient required by the supported claimant tier.

How it works+
  1. Confirm that the project and claimant relationship fit the supported Florida private-project lane.
  2. Enter claimant, project, owner, contractor, and every Notice-of-Commencement recipient detail, including any designated construction lender.
  3. Choose whether eligible private payment-bond Notice to Contractor language should be combined with the Notice to Owner.
  4. Sign and review the generated notice before checkout.
  5. PostalForm creates a separate Certified Mail piece for each mapped recipient.
Where it gets mailed+

Enter the recipient address during checkout.

Packet order+
  • Florida Notice to Owner, or combined Notice to Owner and Notice to Contractor when selected
  • Optional supporting project records in upload order
Common mistakes+
  • Using a Notice to Owner workflow for a public project, subdivision-improvement claim, exempt improvement, direct-to-owner claimant, individual laborer, or professional lienor.
  • Treating 45 days as a mailing deadline instead of preserving the day-40 certified-mail acceptance safe harbor and accounting for an earlier owner final-payment cutoff.
  • Omitting the contractor copy when the claimant did not contract directly with the contractor or owner.
  • Omitting the relevant subcontractor copy when a material or equipment supplier to a sub-subcontractor knows that subcontractor's name and address.
  • Ignoring an owner service agent or designated copy recipient listed in the recorded Notice of Commencement.
  • Failing to send a copy to a construction lender designated in the Notice of Commencement to receive Notices to Owner.
  • Sending an early private-bond Notice to Contractor to the surety; this workflow addresses it to the contractor and does not prepare the later Notice of Nonpayment.
FAQs+
What projects does this Florida Notice to Owner workflow support?

It supports ordinary non-exempt private improvements to Florida real property for the listed subcontractor, sub-subcontractor, material-supplier, and equipment-lessor tiers that did not contract directly with the owner. The workflow blocks unsupported public, direct-to-owner, laborer, professional-lienor, and other special lanes.

Can this include a Florida Notice to Contractor?

Yes. For a private payment bond and a claimant that is not in privity with the contractor, the generated notice can include the early section 713.23 statement that the claimant will look to the contractor's bond for protection. It is mailed to the contractor, not the surety.

Is this the later Notice of Nonpayment to a surety?

No. A section 713.23 Notice of Nonpayment is a different later-stage document with different facts, recipients, sworn language, and deadlines. This workflow does not prepare or mail one.

Does the timing helper guarantee my deadline?

No. It protects a day-40 Certified Mail safety cutoff because PostalForm cannot guarantee actual delivery during days 40 through 45. Florida can also impose an earlier cutoff tied to the owner's final payment after the contractor's affidavit.

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Last verified+

Last Florida private construction project recipients verification: July 11, 2026