New rules for Florida landlords and property managers take effect next week as the new year begins.
— seeks to keep tenants of apartment complexes and rental properties safer. Some provisions of “Miya’s Law” have already gone into effect, but beginning Sunday, Jan. 1, landlords will be required to keep an accurate log of everyone who has been issued a copy of an apartment key. Also, employees must undergo background checks.
According to authorities, it’s believed that Marcano, a 19-year-old college student, was killed by a maintenance employee at the apartment complex where she lived and worked the Orlando area who had access to the master key. All employees of any licensed lodging establishment must get a criminal and sex offender background check.
The law also requires landlords and property managers to keep a detailed log of who has been given a key to each apartment and set up a system for returning and keeping track of them.
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