Just cause eviction rules in Hernando County, FL — sometimes called tenant protection or "for cause" eviction ordinances — list the specific legal reasons a landlord can end a tenancy.
Hernando County cannot add local just-cause eviction protections. Fla. Stat. §83.425 preempts residential tenancy regulation to the state, so evictions across Spring Hill and Brooksville follow the same statewide process. Florida has no just-cause requirement, but self-help lockouts are illegal.
Florida is a landlord-friendly state with no just-cause eviction rule, and Fla. Stat. §83.425 (from the 2023 Live Local Act) blocks Hernando County or Brooksville from creating one. To end a month-to-month tenancy without cause, a landlord gives 30 days' written notice under Fla. Stat. §83.57. For nonpayment, the tenant gets a 3-day notice under §83.56 before the landlord files. Only a county court judge can order removal; a landlord who changes locks or cuts power commits an illegal self-help eviction and owes the tenant damages.
A self-help eviction, changing locks, removing doors, or shutting off utilities, exposes the landlord to the tenant's actual or three-months' rent damages under Fla. Stat. §83.67. Improper notice gets the eviction case dismissed.
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