The Forms Pack for The Florida Co-Op Resident Handbook.

1. 01

   Section 1 — Establish your position

   Chapters 1–5, 18

   For when you do not yet know what you own, which statute governs you, who decides things, or which document controls. Everything in the rest of this pack assumes you have settled these. F-401 is the first page of the pack for a reason — if it tells you this is not a cooperative, nothing else here applies to you.

   • Which Kind of Community Do You Actually Live In
   • What You Actually Own — Ownership-Evidence Locator
   • Confirm the Governing Structure and Documents — Letter
   • Chapter 719, Chapter 723, or 55+ — Confirm Your Status
2. 02

   Section 2 — Read the money

   Chapters 6–16

   For the maintenance bill, the special assessment, the reserve study and the annual financial report. F-410 comes first if the question is where your money goes, and F-417 comes first if anyone has mentioned an inspection, because three separate programs get argued about as one. If the amount is more than you can pay, skip to F-420 and send it today.

   • What Your Maintenance Actually Buys: Budget Line-Item Walkthrough
   • Ask for the Approved Budget, Broken Out: Letter
   • The 115 Percent Calculator, and the Two Votes Behind It
   • Ask the Board to Show Its 115 Percent Arithmetic: Letter
3. 03

   Section 3 — Get the records

   Chapters 17–19

   For when you need a document, or need a question answered. Read F-432 first if you are not certain which of those you actually want — they are two different legal instruments, with different clocks and different remedies. If you want both a document and an answer, send two clearly separated letters.

   • What Your Co-Op Has to Keep — Fifteen-Category Records Inventory
   • Focused Official-Records Request — Letter
   • Records Request — Delivery, Receipt and Production Log
   • The Ten-Working-Day Clock — Records Request Tracker
4. 04

   Section 4 — The meetings

   Chapters 20–24

   For when a notice has gone up, a meeting is coming, or you have just walked out of one. F-433 comes first — board, shareholder and committee meetings run on three different clocks, and almost every wasted evening starts with the wrong one. If you were asked to leave the room, go straight to F-439.

   • Which Meeting Is This — Board, Shareholder or Committee
   • Is This Committee Open to Me — Letter
   • The Designated Posting Location — Verification Log
   • Was the Notice Good — 48 Hours and 14 Days Checker
5. 05

   Section 5 — Elections and recall

   Chapters 25–27

   For an election notice that just went up, a ballot that looked wrong, or a neighbor who wants a director gone. F-441 comes first if any election date is involved, because the whole calendar is counted backward from election day and the deadline that locks a candidate out has usually already passed by the time anyone starts asking. If a recall is what brought you here, start at F-448 and do the arithmetic before you knock on a door.

   • The Election Calendar, Counted Backward
   • Can You Actually Run? Candidacy Eligibility Self-Check
   • Election Calendar and Candidacy Confirmation Letter
   • The Candidate Information Sheet, Checked Before You Send It
6. 06

   Section 6 — When it is about you

   Chapters 12, 28–32

   For when the letter has your unit number on it. Which piece you open first depends on what the letter is about. A rule: F-451, because a board does not get to make one simply because it is the board. A fine: F-454, and check the number before you argue about anything else. Money owed: F-457, or F-458 if a lien is already recorded. A sale or a lease: F-459. A disability-related request: F-462 for the letter, F-463 for the clock.

   • Where the Board's Rulemaking Power Comes From
   • Is This Rule Any Good? A Five-Gate Checker
   • Ask for the Authority Behind a New Rule, Letter
   • Check the Number: The $100 and $1,000 Fine Caps
7. 07

   Section 7 — When they say no

   Chapters 33–36

   For when asking politely has stopped working. Open F-466 first and find out which rung you are standing on, because most readers arrive here already past rung 1 without realizing it, and the rung they skipped is usually the one that was working. Two exceptions to that order: if a petition has been served on you, go straight to F-470, where the clock is 20 days and silence admits the facts; and if you have not yet written down what winning would actually get you, F-465 costs an evening and is the cheapest page in the pack.

   • What Would Actually Winning Look Like
   • Which Rung Are You Actually On
   • Assemble the Paper Trail First
   • Building a Division Complaint
8. 08

   Section 8 — The evidence file

   Chapters 18–19, 21, 35–36

   Cross-cutting. Start here if your matter has not become a dispute yet — everything in this section is worth more for having been kept from the beginning, and worth much less reconstructed afterwards.

   • Master Correspondence Log
   • Delivery-Method and Proof Register
   • Dated Timeline Builder
   • Document Custody Index
9. 09

   Section 9 — Reference cards

   Chapters

   Print-first. These carry no blanks to fill in — they are the pages to keep where you can reach them.

   • Clocks That Run Against You
   • Clocks the Association Owes You
   • Where a Co-Op Shareholder Stands Against a Condo Owner
   • The Sections You Will Actually Reach For

Representative forms shown. Each is sourced to the chapter it supports and cross-referenced in the book.