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Southwest Florida · Rental property owners
Ask your manager
Ask your manager
for their license.
Managing rental property for someone else for compensation is a licensed activity in Florida. Plenty of managers do not hold one. Ask for the number and check it against the state record — including ours.
- 2023formed in
- 239southwest FL
- 83.49deposit rule
- Escrowaccount
What we do
Four services, two Florida rules
A verifiable license, and deposits held the way the statute requires rather than the way it is convenient.
Tenant placement
Marketing, showing and screening, applying the same written criteria to every applicant.
See the programRent and deposits
Collecting rent, and holding deposits as Florida Statute 83.49 requires.
See the programMaintenance coordination
Coordinating repairs within the owner's written authority and spending limits.
See the programOwner reporting
Regular statements showing income, spending and what is actually happening.
See the program
How it works
How we work
Give the license number and invite verification, hold deposits in a separate account with written notice inside thirty days, apply one set of written screening criteria, and refer community association work and licensed trades out.
License and scope
Our number to verify, and the authority and limits in writing.
Managed to the statute
Deposits separate, notices issued, criteria consistent.
Reported monthly
Including vacancies and anything going wrong.
Working together
Ways to work with us
Quoted per property after a first conversation. Maintenance, licensed trades and any owner licensing obligations are separate.
Tenant placement only
Find and place a tenant; you manage after that.
- Written screening criteria
- Fair housing applied
- Lease prepared properly
- Deposit handled to statute
- License verifiable
Full management
Placement, rent, deposits, maintenance and reporting.
- Deposits in a separate account
- Written notice within 30 days
- Spending limits agreed
- Monthly statements
- Honest pricing advice
What we do not do
Said plainly, because it needs another license.
- No condo or HOA management: CAM
- No unlicensed contractor work
- No discriminatory instructions
- No commingled deposit funds
- No guaranteed yield
Every engagement is quoted after a free consultation. No subscription.
How we work
A manager you can check on the state record
DN239MANAGEMENT LLC is a Florida limited liability company with document number L23000525593 on public record with the Florida Division of Corporations, formed in 2023. The work is rental property management in southwest Florida: tenant placement, rent collection, deposit handling, maintenance coordination and owner reporting.
Two Florida rules matter more than anything else an owner could ask about. First, managing or leasing real property for another for compensation is a licensed activity under Chapter 475 of the Florida Statutes, requiring a broker's license or a sales associate acting under a broker. Managing your own property needs no license; doing it for someone else for a fee does. Ask any manager for the number and check it against the Department of Business and Professional Regulation's public record, ours included. Second, under Statute 83.49 a security deposit must sit in a separate account for the tenant's benefit or be bonded, must never be commingled with operating funds, and the tenant must receive written notice within thirty days of how it is held. We also do not manage condominium or homeowners associations, which needs a separate CAM license we do not hold.
Frequently asked
The questions we get most
Does a property manager really need a license in Florida?
To manage or lease property for someone else for compensation, yes — that is regulated real estate activity under Chapter 475 requiring a broker's license or a sales associate under a broker. Managing your own property needs nothing. The gap matters because plenty of people manage for owners without a license, and an owner relying on them is relying on someone who cannot lawfully do it. Ask for the number and verify it with the state.
Where is my tenant's security deposit actually held?
In a separate account for the tenant's benefit, or secured by a surety bond — never mixed with operating money. Florida Statute 83.49 requires that, and it requires the tenant to receive written notice within thirty days saying how it is held, where, and at what interest rate if any. If a manager cannot tell you which account a deposit is in, that is the answer to your question.
Can I keep the deposit for the damage they left?
Only by following the statutory procedure and its notice periods. A claim against a deposit that is not made the way the statute requires is forfeited, which is how owners who were plainly owed money end up with none of it. We handle the move-out notices properly rather than deducting and hoping.
Can you manage our HOA as well?
No. Community association management above the statutory thresholds requires a separate community association manager license under Chapter 468, which we do not hold and do not claim. It is a genuinely different regulated activity rather than an extension of rental management, and we will refer you to a licensed CAM.
I would rather not rent to a particular kind of tenant. Can you screen for that?
No, and an instruction of that sort ends the conversation. Tenant selection follows the Fair Housing Act and applicable state and local law, with the same written criteria applied to every applicant. Consistency is what makes a refusal defensible; making exceptions is what generates complaints.
What rent can I get, and will you guarantee occupancy?
We will give you an honest view of what the market will carry and we will not guarantee income, occupancy or yield. If the rent you want is above the market we will say so, even though a higher rent would mean a higher fee for us — because a property sitting empty for two months to protect a headline number costs you more than the difference.
Got a rental property in southwest Florida?
A free first conversation, with no obligation, and our license number to check.