The statutory window
Until midnight of the 10th calendar day after the later of the day you sign or the day you receive the last required document.
When the clock starts. The later of the contract’s execution date or the day you received the last document the statute requires, including a required notice when it applies.
How notice is treated. A mailed notice is treated as given on the postmark date if the developer or escrow agent actually receives it. A writing delivered another way counts when it is delivered to the developer’s place of business.
Checked 2026-10-26 against Fla. Stat. § 721.10. Statutes are amended. Your contract can give you longer than the statute. Confirm both before you rely on a date.
Orlando and both coasts are the busiest presentation markets in the country. The statutory right cannot be waived, and a closing that happens too early can be voidable.
What to do if the purchase is recent
- Find the cancellation address in the contract. Do not use the sales desk’s verbal instructions as a substitute.
- Send a short writing that says you cancel, names the contract, and is signed. Keep a copy.
- Use the delivery method the contract, or the statute, treats as effective. Certified mail is often safer than a regular email even when email is allowed.
- Do not sign a waiver of your cancellation right while the window might still be open.
- Do not stop there if a closing already happened. Some statutes treat an early closing as voidable for much longer, and that question belongs with a lawyer.
If you have owned it for years
This statute will not unwind an old purchase. The later path is the contract you have now: maintenance, any loan, the term, and whether the developer offers a real release. That review is the contract-cancellation service, not this page.