Regulator
Florida DBPR Council of Community Association Managers
Professional Review
Florida CAM Pre-Licensing and CE Review
Bilingual Florida community association manager materials covering CAM law, board duties, records, budgets, insurance, maintenance, HR, emergencies, and statutory updates.
Duration
16-hour pre-licensing core; CE adaptation held
Planned Price
Under $199 after approval
Audience
Florida CAM applicants and managers after DBPR approval confirms the valid credit path.
Approval Boundary
No enrollment, certificate, pre-licensing, or CE credit claim should open until DBPR approval and instructor/SME requirements are documented.
Owner Action
Owner must confirm DBPR submission, instructor/SME requirements, and any application fee.
Prepared Modules
The bilingual modules are authored for review. Enrollment, payment, certificates, and any credit claim stay closed until written approval.
1 - 4 checks
Florida law governing community associations (Ch. 455 & 468 Part VIII F.S. CAM licensure/discipline; Ch. 617 not-for-profit corporations; Ch. 718 Condominium Act; Ch. 719 Cooperatives; Ch. 720 HOAs; Ch. 721 timeshare/vacation plans)
- Identify which Florida statute governs a given community — Chapter 718 (condominium), 719 (cooperative), 720 (homeowners' association), or 721 (timeshare/vacation plan) — and explain how Chapter 617 (not-for-profit corporations) operates as the corporate backbone underneath all of them.
- Explain the source, scope, and limits of a community association manager's (CAM) license under Chapter 468, Part VIII, F.S., and the regulatory framework of Chapter 455, F.S., including which activities require a license, who licenses and disciplines CAMs (DBPR / the Regulatory Council of Community Association Managers), and the consequences of unlicensed practice.
- Apply the correct statutory hierarchy — statute, then administrative rule, then recorded governing documents — to a real CAM decision, and recognize when a board instruction must yield to controlling Florida law.
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Roles, duties and fiduciary responsibilities of the CAM and the board; governing documents (declaration, bylaws, articles, rules)
- Distinguish the legal roles of the licensed CAM and the volunteer board, and explain how the CAM's management duties under Chapter 468, Part VIII support (but never replace) the board's authority to set policy.
- Identify and correctly rank a Florida community's governing documents (articles of incorporation, declaration, bylaws, and board-adopted rules) and apply the controlling-document hierarchy to resolve a conflict.
- Apply the fiduciary duties of loyalty, care, and good faith — and the statutory standards of Chapters 718, 719, and 720 — to realistic management decisions involving money, records, and conflicts of interest.
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Meetings, elections, notices, quorum, voting and official records / recordkeeping (statutory records access)
- Apply Florida's notice, posting, and open-meeting rules for board and member meetings across condominiums (Ch. 718), cooperatives (Ch. 719), and HOAs (Ch. 720), including the 48-hour board-meeting posting rule and the 14-day annual/budget notice.
- Administer a statutorily compliant condominium election under s. 718.112(2)(d), F.S. (second-notice timing, no proxies for elections, plurality voting, and the 20% turnout requirement), and distinguish it from HOA election and recall procedures.
- Identify which documents are official records, calculate the lawful inspection-response window, and recognize the records a CAM must withhold from owner inspection and the penalties for non-compliance.
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Budgeting, financial management, reserves and reserve funding; assessments and collections; financial reporting/audits
- Prepare and apply a compliant annual budget that separately states operating expenses and statutory reserves, and explain when and how reserves may be waived, reduced, or used under Florida law.
- Administer the assessment lifecycle correctly — levying, due dates, late fees, interest, the pre-lien demand notice, and the lien-and-foreclosure process — for both condominiums (Ch. 718) and HOAs (Ch. 720).
- Match an association's annual financial reporting obligation (cash receipts/disbursements, compiled, reviewed, or audited statements) to its revenue tier and document the records-access and reserve-disclosure duties of the CAM.
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Insurance for community associations (property, liability, fidelity, flood) and risk management
- Identify the four core insurance coverages a Florida community association manager must understand — property, general liability, fidelity/crime, and flood — and explain what each protects against and which statute governs the association's duty to carry it (F.S. 718.111(11), 719.104(2), 720.3033(2)).
- Apply Florida's condominium 'where the walls of the units begin' adequate-insurance and unit-boundary rules to allocate a property-loss repair between the association's master policy and a unit owner's HO-6 policy, and calculate a coinsurance penalty when a building is underinsured.
- Describe a CAM's practical risk-management workflow — annual coverage review, fidelity bonding limits, flood-zone verification, certificate and waiver-of-subrogation tracking, and timely claim reporting — and explain how these reduce the association's and the manager's exposure.
6 - 4 checks
Maintenance and operation of the association's physical property; contracts, bids and vendor management
- Explain the CAM's role in operating and maintaining the association's physical property, including the line between common elements the association must maintain and unit/parcel components the owner maintains, and how the governing documents and Florida statutes allocate those duties.
- Apply Florida's competitive-bid requirements for community association contracts, including the dollar thresholds and exceptions in s. 718.3026 (condominiums), s. 719.3026 (cooperatives), and s. 720.3055 (HOAs), to decide when multiple bids are legally required.
- Manage vendors lawfully and ethically by verifying licensing and insurance, disclosing conflicts of interest, avoiding kickbacks, and documenting decisions so the board's actions survive owner scrutiny and a DBPR audit.
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Human resources topics: employee relations, disaster/emergency preparedness, and communication skills for dealing with residents and vendors
- Apply core Florida employee-relations practices a CAM oversees on-site — lawful hiring/classification, wage-and-hour and timekeeping discipline, harassment/retaliation prevention, and documented progressive discipline — while staying inside the CAM's professional standards and authority under Ch. 468 Part VIII, F.S. and Rule 61E14-2.001, F.A.C.
- Build and execute a community emergency/disaster plan that uses the statutory emergency powers Florida grants association boards (s. 718.1265, s. 719.128, and s. 720.316, F.S.) — pre-storm authority, post-storm access and repairs, communications, and the manager's role before, during, and after a declared emergency.
- Choose communication techniques that de-escalate resident and vendor conflict, respect Florida's open-records and meeting-notice rules, and keep the CAM acting within the scope of authority delegated by the board rather than substituting the manager's own judgment for the board's.
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Statutory/legal updates: recent legislation, case law and rules impacting community association management
- Identify the major recent Florida legislative changes affecting community association management — including the SB 4-D / SB 154 milestone inspection and structural integrity reserve study (SIRS) requirements for condominiums and the 2023-2024 HOA reforms — and explain how each changes a CAM's day-to-day duties.
- Apply the new mandatory-reserve and reserve-funding rules to condominium and cooperative budgets, distinguishing items a board may no longer waive or partially fund from those it still can.
- Recognize how recent case law and DBPR/Division rules on records access, official records, fines, and licensing translate into compliant CAM practice, and locate the controlling statute (Ch. 468 Part VIII, 718, 719, 720) for a given situation.