How to Look Up Your HOA on Florida Sunbiz
Every Florida homeowners association, condominium association, and cooperative is a not-for-profit corporation registered with the Florida Division of Corporations. Its public record lives on Sunbiz (sunbiz.org) — and it answers questions owners ask all the time: Who are the current directors? Who is the registered agent? Is the association in good standing? And, very often, which management company runs it.
Here's how to find and read your association's record.
Open the Sunbiz entity search
Go to search.sunbiz.org and choose Search by Entity Name. Sunbiz is free and requires no account.
Search your association's legal name
Use the name exactly as it appears on your deed, assessment notice, or closing documents — for example "LAKESIDE VILLAGE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC." If the full name returns nothing, try just the first two or three words. Association legal names often differ slightly from the community's marketing name.
Open the active record
Search results often include dissolved entities with similar names — developments get re-incorporated, and phase associations come and go. Pick the entry whose status is Active. If your association shows INACT or Admin Dissolved, it failed to file an annual report — worth raising with your board.
Read the registered agent and officers
The detail page lists the registered agent, the principal address, and the current officers and directors. Two things to look for:
• If the registered agent is a company (not a resident's name), it's very often the association's management firm or its law firm.
• If officer addresses start with "C/O [company name]", that company is almost always the current management company — associations route their mail through their manager.
Verify the management company's license
Florida requires community association management firms to hold a DBPR Community Association Business (CAB) license. Once you've identified the firm on Sunbiz, look it up in our Florida directory — we list every CAB-licensed firm with license status, portfolio data, and Google reviews — or verify directly on the DBPR license portal.
What Sunbiz won't tell you
Sunbiz is the corporate registry, not the regulator. It won't show license status, disciplinary history, unit counts, or reviews. For condominiums, the DBPR Division of Condominiums registry holds unit counts and management filings — we combine both sources (plus Google reviews and FDOR parcel data) on each firm's profile in our Florida directory.
This is the same C/O-field technique we use at scale: our database links thousands of Florida associations to their management firms through Sunbiz registered-agent records. If you'd rather skip the manual lookup, browse your county and check which firms manage communities near you.