Roofing for Community Association Managers & Property Managers

Most managers we work with carry communities across several counties at once — and each county permits roof work differently. In our footprint that means the Lee County Department of Community Development, the Collier County Building Review & Permitting office, Charlotte County Community Development, and Sarasota County Building & Permitting Services. A partner who already knows each office's submittal path is one less thing on your desk.

The law on top of all of that is statewide. Under Florida's SB 4-D, condominium and cooperative buildings three stories and taller must fully fund roof reserves and complete a Structural Integrity Reserve Study (SIRS), and boards can no longer waive that funding. Those buildings also need a milestone inspection by December 31 of the year the building turns 30, then every 10 years (s. 553.899, F.S.); the local building official may require it at 25 years based on local conditions such as proximity to salt water. And Florida's 25% roof-replacement rule can turn a repair into a section re-roof once a quarter of the roof section is affected (unless the section was built, repaired or replaced under the 2007 Florida Building Code or later, when only the repaired portion has to meet current code, s. 553.844(5), F.S.) — a budget surprise no manager wants to explain after the fact.

Most of Southwest Florida sits outside the HVHZ, so the Miami-Dade product approvals you may have seen elsewhere do not apply here. What matters is a contractor who scopes to the right local code the first time, documents it for the board, and keeps a portfolio of buildings moving without you chasing status.