Florida Statute 83.44 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 83
LANDLORD AND TENANT

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83.44 Obligation of good faith.—Every rental agreement or duty within this part imposes an obligation of good faith in its performance or enforcement.

History.—s. 2, ch. 73-330.

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Cases Citing Statute 83.44

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Paterson v. Deeb, 472 So. 2d 1210 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985).

Cited 64 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 10 Fla. L. Weekly 1417

...locks and keys [and] the clean and safe condition of common areas." [3] The act is applicable to dwelling units such as the one involved in this case. § 83.41, Fla. Stat. (1981). The act explicitly imposes "an obligation of good faith in the performance or enforcement of every duty under the act." § 83.44, Fla....

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Fernandez v. Vazquez, 397 So. 2d 1171 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981).

Cited 53 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 21 A.L.R. 4th 181

...Gay Nineties Realty Corp., 71 Misc.2d 353, 335 N.Y.S.2d 872 (App.Div. 1972); Lemle v. Breeden, 51 Haw. 426, 462 P.2d 470 (1969); Wright v. Baumann, 239 Or. 410, 398 P.2d 119 (1965). For Florida see, R. Boyer, 2 Florida Real Estate Transactions, §§ 35.01-02 (1980); Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, § 83.44, Fla....

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Lifschitz v. City of Miami Beach, 339 So. 2d 232 (Fla. 3d DCA 1976).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1976 Fla. App. LEXIS 15915

...ovisions are in no way dependent upon them. Florida Statutes Chapter 83 contains ample standards for the termination of rental agreements. It imposes numerous duties upon both landlord and tenant which are enforceable by civil action. In particular, Section 83.44 imposes an obligation of good faith in the performance or enforcement of every rental agreement or duty imposed by Chapter 83....

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Harbor House Partners, Ltd. v. Mitchel, 512 So. 2d 242 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1987).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 2038, 1987 Fla. App. LEXIS 9970

...By not responding to the tenant’s hardship request letter of August 27,1984, the defendant quite reasonably believed that the plaintiff had no objection to terminating the said lease on December 31, 1984, and consequently took no steps to sublet the apartment. The defendant, we think, had a good-faith duty under Section 83.44, Florida Statutes (1985) to promptly respond to the above letter if it had any objection to so terminating the lease....