Real Estate Agent · Orlando, FL · Member since 2015 · 28 posts · 13 votes
Is a real estate license required (specifically in the state of FL) to operate a STR property management company? If for example someone were to manage the bookings and market the property on air bnb or VRBO on the owner's behalf, would a real estate license be required?
"Key components of property management (renting and leasing) are considered a real estate activity under existing Florida real estate licensing laws. ... No license is required for managing personally owned properties." (End)
No it is NOT. Time is the defining factor. Florida law defines a vacation rental as any unit or group of units in a condominium or cooperative or any individually or collectively owned single-family, two-family, three-family or four-family house or dwelling within a single complex of buildings which is “transient accommodations” which means “rented to guests more than three times in a calendar year for periods of less than 30 days or 1 calendar month, whichever is less, or which is advertised or held out to the public as a place regularly rented to guests.”