Swift E-Recording has released a free Notice of Commencement generator that builds a completed Florida NOC from a property folio or parcel number. The legal description, which is the part of the form most likely to send a document back for correction, is pulled straight from the county property record and set on the page correctly.
The tool is available now at swifterecordingservices.com/notice-of-commencement-generator. Generating and downloading a Notice costs nothing.
Florida Statute 713.13 requires a recorded Notice of Commencement on most construction projects above the statutory threshold, and under F.S. 713.135 a certified copy has to be posted at the job site before the first inspection. Miss it and the permit stalls, the inspector turns around, and the crew loses a day.
Most of the form is straightforward. The legal description is where it goes wrong. Lot, block, plat book and page can run forty words, and on a blank form all of that has to land on one short line. Contractors handwrite it and hope it fits. Or they copy it out of the county property appraiser site and hope it came across clean, with the line breaks and abbreviations intact. A description that is truncated, mistyped, or unreadable is a correction and a resubmission, and every day the Notice is not recorded is a day the project cannot pass inspection.
The generator removes that step. Enter the folio, and Swift E-Recording queries the county record directly and returns the legal description already formatted to fit.
The generator produces the form built on the statewide statutory Notice of Commencement, so it works for Florida projects generally rather than for a single county.
One step the tool does not replace is notarization. The owner’s signature has to be acknowledged before a notary before the Notice can be recorded, and the printed name on the form needs to match the signature exactly. Contractors should also confirm that a notary seal or stamp does not cover any of the information on the form, since a clerk will reject a document where the seal obscures required fields.
There is no charge to build a Notice of Commencement with the generator and no charge to download it. A contractor who wants to print it, take it to a notary, and walk it into the county themselves can do exactly that.
For anyone who would rather not make the trip, the completed Notice can be submitted through Swift E-Recording’s e-recording portal. Swift E-Recording is a Clerk-approved e-recording vendor and currently supports recording in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Hillsborough counties.
The e-recording side of Swift E-Recording is self-service. The customer uploads and submits the document in the portal, the county clerk reviews it on the county’s own timeline, and recording statuses return to the account automatically. There is nothing to chase down by phone and no counter to stand at.
Pricing follows the same approach as the generator. Signing up is free, with no annual fee, no subscription, and no minimums. Customers pay only when they record. That is a deliberate contrast with vendors that charge a yearly platform fee before a single document goes through, or that keep their rates behind a sales call.
The Notice of Commencement generator is live now and open to any Florida contractor, owner-builder, or permit expeditor at swifterecordingservices.com/notice-of-commencement-generator.
Contractors who want to record the finished document electronically can create an account at swifterecordingservices.com/signup.
Swift E-Recording is a Clerk-approved electronic recording vendor serving Florida contractors, roofers, permit expeditors, title companies, and real estate professionals. The company provides self-service e-recording of eligible Notices of Commencement, Notices of Termination, construction liens, releases, and other supported documents in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Hillsborough counties, with recording statuses and recorded copies returned to a single account.
Once your amendment, new NOC, notice of recommencement, or Notice of Termination is signed and notarized, submit it electronically and get your recorded copy back from the county Clerk, without a courthouse visit.
