In Florida, HOAs are required to provide records to owners. Owners must provide a written request for. Is an email to the hired record keeper a written request?
Update: Assume for the exercise that recipient replies to the message indicating that the message is read.
Although Florida law simply says that records
shall be made available to a parcel owner.. within 10 business days after receipt by the board or its designee of a written request
what else you may want to know is that
The failure of an association to provide access to the records within 10 business days after receipt of a written request submitted by certified mail, return receipt requested, creates a rebuttable presumption that the association willfully failed to comply with this subsection.
The teeth in the record law is/are that
A member who is denied access to official records is entitled to the actual damages or minimum damages for the association’s willful failure to comply with this subsection.
Technically, email constitutes a written request, but there is no penalty for failing to comply with a written request, there is a penalty for failing to timely comply with a written request submitted by certified mail, return receipt requested.
So is a text message or Facebook or Whatsapp post.
However, strange and different rules of service (i.e. when and how they have legal effect) may apply to different methods.
