(1) If a lessee so requests, the lessor must give or forward to the lessee a receipt for any payment made in cash. The lessor must also furnish, upon the lessee’s request, an accounting of all charges, payments, and their dates in connection with a rental-purchase agreement. A charge of $5 may be imposed upon the lessee by the lessor for the second and each subsequent accounting request by the lessee in a 12-month period.
(2) After payment of all sums necessary for the lessee to acquire ownership of the rental property, a lessor must deliver or mail to the lessee, at her or his last known address, one or more good and sufficient instruments acknowledging that the lessee has acquired ownership of the rental property.
History.—s. 6, ch. 88-69; s. 832, ch. 97-103.
Structure Florida Statutes
Title XXXIII - Regulation of Trade, Commerce, Investments, and Solicitations
Chapter 559 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce, and Investments, Generally
Part X - Rental-Purchase Agreements (Ss. 559.9231-559.9241)
559.9232 - Definitions; exclusion of rental-purchase agreements from certain regulations.
559.9233 - Rental-purchase agreements.
559.9234 - Prohibited rental-purchase agreement provisions.
559.9237 - Rental renewal charges; attorney’s fees; court costs.