Sinkhole Disclosure: Sinkhole Basic Info for Florida Agents

Sinkhole Disclosure: Sinkhole Basic Info for Florida Agents

FAQ from Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

https://floridadep.gov/fgs/sinkholes/content/sinkhole-faq

the client to take the following additional steps.   

1. Call the county for info guidance. Some counties have a web site that allows the public to look up the address and a designation in the public record.  Advise

2. Request repair/warranty information

3. Call the applicable repair company 

4. Call their insurance provider.

You are also welcome to call for your own information, and we think you should, but this is not in the place of your client getting 1st hand information for themselves.  We are Realtors, not environmental, structural or insurance licensed professionals.

How to find the blank Sinkhole Disclosure - SD-1 in Dotloop:

 

  1. Go to your Initial Docs folder
  2. Click add document (to the right of the folder name)
  3. Click templates
  4. Scroll the down the list of folders on the left to Common Addenda
  5. Click Common Addenda
  6. Scroll to form named: Sinkhole Disclosure - SD-1 
  7. Click the checkbox next to the form name
  8. Click copy


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