Florida 15-Hour Community Association Manager Package
This package contains everything you need to meet your continuing education requirement for Florida Community Association Managers.
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
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Budget Fundamentals 3
Course release date: 1/30/2026
Course Overview
In this course we discuss fundamentals of the budget and financial management process for community associations. When used properly, the budget serves the association as a guide to compare, throughout the fiscal year, its actual revenue and expenses to its budgeted revenue and expenses. Good financial management practices are a responsibility of a board of directors as well as that of a CAM, management firm, and/or managing entity.
The essential elements of a budget are described. The budget provides a basis to make necessary changes to ensure, as much as possible, that the association is staying within budgetary limits while working toward achieving the community association’s long-term goals and short-term objectives. -
Landscape Maintenance Responsibilities 3
Course release date: 1/30/2026
Course Overview
To a significant extent, landscape plans, designs, and maintenance are centered around procedures and principles based on F.S. 373.185, “Local Florida-Friendly Landscaping Ordinances.” Florida-friendly landscaping is defined as quality landscapes that conserve water, protect the environment, are adaptable to local conditions, and are drought tolerant. It provides regulations and guiding principles for counties and municipalities in Florida. This course will explore procedures as well as elements of landscaping.
This course uses a fictional character to help narrate. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. -
Legal Updates 2025-2026 3
Course release date: 1/30/2026
Course Overview
This course provides students with statutes and administrative rules applicable to community associations and community association managers. Some laws directly impact condominiums, cooperatives, homeowners’ associations, and timeshares. While others may apply to related entities, such as management, flood disclosures, and fire prevention. Included are laws passed and administrative codes adopted during the 2025 legislative session. We will review legislative changes from 2024 as they may impact those made in 2025. -
Meetings, Important or a Waste of Time 3
Course release date: 1/30/2026
Course Overview
This course examines the requirements, authority, process, and procedures for community associations to conduct meetings. It addresses the perception of the importance of meetings in community associations that often differs between owners and board members. In this course, we will discuss the necessity of meetings as it relates to Florida statutes, meeting requirement differences among condominiums, cooperatives, homeowners’ associations, and timeshares. This course intends to review certain statutory requirements and recent changes that licensed CAMs, CAM firms, and community association leaders must understand. It seeks to outline the importance of a CAMs understanding of meeting purposes and processes and provides suggestions for planning and conducting successful meetings. -
Records Management-HOA 3
Course release date: 1/30/2026
Course Overview
This course examines various sections of Florida Statute 720 as well as F.S. 468 statutory professional practice standards of community association managers (CAM) and community association management firms. Specifically, how they apply to the records and records management operations of homeowners’ associations. The course includes discussion of what CAMs should be aware of while in service to homeowners’ associations related to record keeping. This course is intended to satisfy the DBPR’s requirement for those who manage homeowners’ associations to fulfil five hours of continuing education in homeowners’ association specific information, specifically, three hours related to record keeping and two hours that relate to homeowners’ associations. The course also provides three hours of continuing education credit for CAMs who are not homeowners’ association managers.