Swift E-Recording | Free Notice of Commencement generator

How to create my own Notice of Commencement

Notice of Commencement

Stop handwriting a legal description into a blank space and hoping it fits. Enter the folio.

Forty words of lot, block, plat book and page, handwritten onto one short line, or pasted out of the appraiser site and hoping it came across clean. Swift E-Recording queries the county record directly and sets it on the page properly. Free to generate, free to download.

You sign and notarize it the usual way. Then upload it back to Swift E-Recording and we record it with the county.

Look up the property

Try a sample: · ·

Preview F.S. 713.13

3″ × 3″
reserved for the
Clerk's stamp

Notice of Commencement

Permit No. ________

Tax Folio No. ________

1. Description of propertyCounty record

2. General description of improvementYou enter this

3. Owner name and addressCounty record

4. Contractor name and addressYour account

Warning to owner: any payments made by the owner after the expiration of the notice of commencement are considered improper payments under Chapter 713, Part I, Florida Statutes…

Signature of owner

Notary public, State of Florida

How it works

Three steps, and one of them is typing a folio number.

Step 01

Pick the county, enter the folio

Or search by address if you don't have the folio handy. Swift E-Recording queries that county's property record directly. No second tab, no copying, no clipped paste. It shows you what it found, field by field.

Step 02

Check it, add the job details

Every retrieved field is marked so you can see where it came from. You add what no record holds: the improvement description and the permit number. Correct anything that looks off.

Step 03

Download, sign, record

You get a print-ready PDF in the statutory form with the Clerk's stamp area held clear. Get it signed and notarized, then upload it back to Swift E-Recording to record it.

What you don't have to type

The fields that get notices rejected are the ones nobody should be pasting by hand.

Written by hand it runs off the line, and the writing gets smaller until it crosses into the margin the Clerk needs for the recording stamp. Pasted in, it clips or wraps wrong. Either way the notice comes back. Set from the county record, it fits the page the first time.

Copied and pasted

→ Legal description, handwritten or pasted in
→ Owner name, retyped and hopefully vested right
→ Owner mailing address, from another tab
→ Tax folio number, retyped
→ Improvement description
→ Permit number

With Swift E-Recording

✓ Legal description, from the county
✓ Owner name, from the county
✓ Owner mailing address, from the county
✓ Tax folio number, from the county
→ Improvement description
→ Permit number

The rest of the platform

Swift E-Recording is a Clerk-approved eRecording service.

The notice generator is one part of it. Everything else you record can go through the same account.

Free

Generate a Notice of Commencement

Legal description and owner details pulled from county parcel data, rendered in the statutory form with the recording margins held clear.

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Deeds, mortgages, satisfactions, assignments, liens and notices. Submitted electronically and returned to you recorded.

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Already have the document?

Upload a signed PDF and Swift E-Recording reads the indexing data off it, so you're not re-keying names and book-and-page references.

Tracking

See where every package stands

Submitted, recorded, or returned for correction. The county's own comments come attached, so you know exactly what to fix.

Coverage

Every county in Florida. All sixty-seven.

Wherever the job is, the notice records. Find your county below: parcel lookup, the generated notice, and electronic submission to that county's Clerk.

Alachua Baker Bay Bradford Brevard Broward Calhoun Charlotte Citrus Clay Collier Columbia DeSoto Dixie Duval Escambia Flagler Franklin Gadsden Gilchrist Glades Gulf Hamilton Hardee Hendry Hernando Highlands Hillsborough Holmes Indian River Jackson Jefferson Lafayette Lake Lee Leon Levy Liberty Madison Manatee Marion Martin Miami-Dade Monroe Nassau Okaloosa Okeechobee Orange Osceola Palm Beach Pasco Pinellas Polk Putnam St. Johns St. Lucie Santa Rosa Sarasota Seminole Sumter Suwannee Taylor Union Volusia Wakulla Walton Washington

Each notice is built from that county's own parcel record and submitted to that county's Clerk of Court. Recording fees are set by the county and charged at cost. Questions about a specific county? Ask us.

Pricing

Generating a notice costs nothing.

Notice of Commencement

Free

Create an account, look up the property, generate and download the PDF. No card, no subscription, no per-document charge. Generate as many as you need.

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Pay per document

You pay when a document records: a flat submission fee plus the county's own recording fees at cost. No annual fee, no license fee, no minimums.

Your next notice takes about 30 seconds.

Create a free account and generate one now. You can decide about recording later.

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Swift E-Recording provides document preparation and electronic recording services. Swift E-Recording is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Property information is retrieved from county public records and is presented as of the date retrieved; verify all information before signing and recording.