Florida HOA website requirements, explained
Homeowners associations sit under Chapter 720, not Chapter 718, and the website rules differ from the condominium ones in two ways that matter: the threshold is higher, and it counts parcels.
The threshold
An association that manages 100 or more parcels is required to maintain a website carrying its official records. Below 100, there is no statutory requirement.
Parcels, not residents and not households. A 90-parcel community with 240 residents is a 90-parcel community.
What goes on the site
Broadly the same categories a condominium association posts: governing documents, budgets and financial reports, contracts, meeting notices and minutes, and insurance information. Records go behind an owner login rather than being published openly.
The notice timing is also familiar:
- Members' meetings: 14 days ahead.
- Board meetings: 48 hours ahead.
- Documents: posted within 30 days.
Where HOAs differ in practice
Two things come up repeatedly for HOAs that do not for condominiums.
Architectural review is a records surface. Where an association reviews exterior changes, denials require specific written reasons that reference the covenant or rule relied on. A denial recorded as "denied — does not fit the community aesthetic" is the kind of entry that does not hold up when challenged, and it lives in the same records set as everything else.
Covenant enforcement generates its own paper. Violation notices, hearing notices, and the outcomes are all records. Most bylaws set a 14-day notice requirement for a hearing; that is a governing-document question rather than a statutory one, so check yours rather than assuming.
If you are under 100 parcels
There is no requirement, and there is also no penalty for publishing anyway. Associations below the threshold that do it usually do so for a reason unrelated to compliance: owners stop calling board members for documents, and a contested decision has a dated record behind it.
That is a governance argument, not a legal one. It is worth taking on its own terms rather than as pre-emptive compliance.