Electronic delivery of notices
Primary state source for when a landlord and tenant may elect to deliver certain notices by email.
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Florida rental notices by email: when section 83.505 makes an email count
Florida section 83.505 lets a landlord and tenant elect email delivery for notices required under the residential landlord-tenant statute, and a qualifying email is deemed delivered when it is sent unless it comes back undeliverable — which is what starts your 15-day objection clock on a deposit claim notice. The election is voluntary and depends on a signed addendum, designated addresses, and records that show what was sent.
Understand the branch
Verify the election before relying on the inbox.
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Find the signed electronic-notice addendum
The statute requires a rental-agreement addendum specifically agreeing to electronic delivery. It must present the election as voluntary and explain revocation and address updates. Ordinary email use, an online portal, or a general electronic-signature clause is not the same proof.
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Confirm both designated addresses and directions
Preserve the signed choices and valid email addresses for notices from landlord to tenant and from tenant to landlord. Do not assume one party's consent, one address, or one direction proves every electronic-notice path.
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Check send and undeliverable evidence
A qualifying notice is deemed delivered when sent unless the email is returned as undeliverable. Keep the full message, attachments, sent timestamp, recipient address, transmission record, and any bounce or rejection notice.
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Track revocations and address changes
A party may revoke the election or update a designated address by written notice. The change takes effect upon delivery and does not invalidate a qualifying notice previously sent, so sequence and proof matter.
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Apply the deposit-notice cross-reference
Florida's deposit statute now permits certain disclosures and a landlord's 30-day claim notice by email in accordance with section 83.505. Without that qualifying branch, the claim-notice provision retains its certified-mail path.
Evidence checklist
Keep evidence of permission, address, message, and delivery.
- Lease and the separately signed electronic-notice addendum
- Each party's election and designated notice email address
- Every address-update or revocation notice with delivery proof
- The complete notice email, attachments, headers, and sent timestamp
- Transmission confirmation and any bounce or undeliverable response
- A second service record if another legally permitted method was also used
- For a deposit claim, the move-out date, notice text, itemization, and objection
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Primary state source for deposit handling, notices, objections, and the renter’s forwarding-address responsibilities.
Coverage: the statewide electronic-delivery election in Fla. Stat. § 83.505 and its security-deposit cross-reference in § 83.49. This guide does not decide whether a particular addendum, email, attachment, address, revocation, or underlying notice satisfies every legal requirement.
Next step
Work out your deadline and build your deposit file.
Record how the notice actually reached you before you count anything. The workspace keeps the email-election facts alongside the dates, counts your 15-day objection window from the receipt date you confirm rather than from a mailing date it guessed, and assembles the addendum, transmission records, and other evidence into one file.
The workspace runs in your browser on this device. Your entries stay in tab memory and are lost on refresh or close, they are never sent to a server, and only facts you check are allowed to produce a date.
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