Florida · All 67 counties · Chapter 713
Order it in two minutes. We find the owner of record, parcel number and legal description, the owner approves it online, signs it on a short video call with our online notary, and it is e-recorded with the county clerk. You get the recorded copy to post at the job site.
Includes the statutory form, online notarization (RON) with the owner, and the county's first-page recording fee. Extra pages, including a recorded payment bond, are the county's $8.50 each. No notary visit, no trip to the clerk.
1. You order
The job site, what is being built and who you contracted with. That is the whole form.
2. We research the property
Owner of record, parcel / folio number and legal description, pulled from the county records.
3. The owner approves online
They get their own page to check the notice, add a lender or surety, and approve it.
4. Signed with our online notary
Their remote online notarization invitation goes out the moment they approve. About ten minutes, on a phone or computer, with photo ID.
5. E-recorded with the county
The sealed notice goes to the clerk electronically. You and the owner get the recorded copy with the instrument number.
Working under a general contractor? The Notice of Commencement is the owner’s filing — it is not the one that protects you. Serve a Notice to Owner within 45 days of first furnishing instead. Florida Notice to Owner →
Florida wants a certified copy of the recorded notice posted at the job site — or a notarized statement that it has been filed for recording with a copy of the notice attached (F.S. 713.13(2)). Both work. One of them does not have to wait for the clerk.
The fast one. We are the notary, so it is issued the day we file and beats the clerk by days. Florida permits up to $25 for an online notarization — this is a discounted second notarial act, and it is included free with rush.
The one a picky building department asks for: electronically certified by the clerk, emailed, printable and verifiable against the county’s own records. You can order the same copy from the clerk yourself for their statutory fee — our $15 is for doing it for you.
Your part takes about two minutes. From there, the turnaround is set by how responsive the owner is: we text and email them the moment their notice is ready, they approve it and sit a ten-minute online signing, and the clerk records on their own clock.
Rush — $40. Research and preparation the same business day, front of the queue at every step, the owner chased by phone and text as well as email, their signing invitation out the moment they approve, and the notarized posting statement thrown in so you can post before it records. If we miss our side of that, the $40 comes back.
A notice is void if work has not begun within 90 days of recording, and it expires one year from recording unless a later date is stated on its face. We track both on your filing.
The owner does — but it is the contractor in privity with the owner who needs it recorded and posted, because the permit and the first inspection depend on it. We take the order from the contractor, research the property, and deal with the owner directly for the signature and notarization.
The building department can refuse the first inspection on any direct contract over $5,000 ($15,000 for repairing or replacing an existing A/C or heating system) (F.S. 713.135). Payments the owner makes without a valid recorded notice can also be improper payments under Chapter 713, which is how a paid job turns into a lien fight later.
$135 if we research the property for you, $110 if you already have the owner of record, legal description and parcel number. Both include preparation on the statutory form, the online notarization with the owner, and the county's $10 first-page recording fee. Each further page — including a payment bond recorded with the notice — is the county's $8.50.
You submit the order in about two minutes. After that, the turnaround depends on how quickly the owner responds — we text and email them their link the moment the notice is ready, they approve it and sign online with our notary, and it goes to the county. Rush puts our side same-day and we chase the owner by phone as well.
Section 713.13(2) accepts a notarized statement that the notice has been filed for recording, with a copy of the notice attached, in place of a certified copy. We are the notary, so we can issue that statement the day we file — $15, or included with rush. A certified copy of the recorded notice is also $15, electronically certified by the clerk and emailed.
No. The Notice of Commencement belongs to the owner. What protects a subcontractor or supplier is the Notice to Owner, served within 45 days of first furnishing. That is a different filing and we do it for $65.