St. Johns County requires no rental registration or landlord license for a long-term residential rental. Florida has no statewide registry, and the 2023 preemption in Fla. Stat. §83.425 blocks the county and its cities from creating one.
No landlord registry, annual rental permit, or mandatory inspection program applies to standard residential leases in St. Johns County. Section 83.425 preempts the regulation of residential tenancies to the state, and the 2023 Live Local Act reinforced that local governments cannot impose their own landlord-tenant rules. Short-term vacation rentals are the exception: those follow the county's tourist-development-tax registration and Florida's DBPR licensing, a separate track from ordinary leases. A landlord renting a St. Augustine or Nocatee home on a yearly lease owes no county filing or fee to rent it out. State law — deposits, habitability, eviction — still governs the relationship.
There is no registration requirement for long-term rentals, so there is no registration penalty. A local ordinance creating one would conflict with §83.425 and be unenforceable.
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