Individuals Who Are Exempt From Licensure...
Individual
property owners are free to buy, sell, exchange, or lease their
own real estate. Additionally, business entities such as corporations,
partnerships, trusts, or joint ventures may sell, exchange,
or lease their own real property. Salaried employees of business
entities who sell, exchange, or lease real property for their
employer are exempt from licensure, provided they are not paid
a commission or compensated on a transactional basis.
Other
individuals who are specifically exempted from licensure include:
•
persons who buy or sell cemetry lots.
• individuals who rent or buy lots in a mobile home park
or recreational travel park.
• radio and television announcers and persons in public
relations and advertising media, provided the service performed
is incidental to their employment; individuals negotiating the
sale, purchase, or lease of radio, television, or cable enterprises,
provided the sale or purchase does not involve the sale or lease
of land, buildings, fixtures, and all other improvements to
the land.
• attorneys-at-law and certified public accountants when
acting within the scope of their professional duties.
• attorneys-in-fact, for the purposes of the execution
of contracts and conveyances only.
• persons who deal in personal property only, such as mortgage
brokers; however, an individual in this category who attempts
to negotiate a lease must be licensed.
• full-time graduate students enrolled in a Commission-approved
degree program in appraising at a Florida college or university,
provided the student is acting under the direct supervision
of a licensed broker or a licensed or certified appraiser and
is engaged only in appraisal activities related to the approved
degree program.
• persons acting within the limitations of their duties
as designated by a will, proper court, or statutory authority
to serve as a personal representative, trustee, receiver, guardian,
master in chancery, or special master (for example, a sheriff
or an appraiser).
• employees who are paid a salary as managers of condominiums
or cooperative apartment complexes who rent individual units,
if the rentals are for periods no longer than one year.
• salaried employees of an owner, or registered broker
for an owner, of an apartment community who work in an on-site
rental office in a leasing capacity.
• salaried employees of a public utility, rural electric
cooperative, railroad, or state or local government agency who
act within the scope of their regular employment.
• any person or legal business entity that, for another
and for compensation or valuable consideration, rents or advertises
for rent for transient occupancy any public lodging establishment
licensed under F.S. 509
• owners of one part of one or more time-sharte periods
for their own use and occupancy who later offer one or more
such periods for resale.
• any person registered, licensed, or certified by the
DBPR under Part II of the Real Estate License Law as an appraiser
performing appraisals in accordance with that part.
• federally regulated banks and dealers registered with
the SEC selling business enterprises to accredited investors.
• owners of an apartment complex or any property management
firm for the purpose of paying a finder's fee of not more than
$50 to a tenant of the apartment complex.
• SALES
ASSOCIATE QUALIFICATIONS FOR LICENSURE
• BROKER
REQUIREMENTS
• REGISTRATION
AND LICENSURE
• POST-LICENSING
EDUCATION
• CONTINUING
EDUCATION
• REAL
ESTATE SERVICES
• INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EXEMPT FROM
LICENSURE
• 28-Hour Reactivation Course
Information
reproduced from Gaines & Coleman: Florida Real Estate Principles,
Practices & Law by Linda L. Crawford produced by Dearborn
Real Estate Education.
