The MaintComply Standard
Florida asks nothing of a landlord. No safety certificate, no inspection, no proof that anyone has ever checked the wiring. The Standard is the answer to that — a voluntary annual benchmark for landlords who want their properties held to one, and the badge that proves it.
A private standard set by MaintComply.
Most people just book a job. Every service we offer — AC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, emergency callouts, inspections and safety audits — can be booked on its own, whenever you need it. Browse the services or book a job.
The Standard is for landlords who want something extra: a yearly certification across their whole property, and a badge that proves it. It is entirely optional.
Why it exists
A Good Landlord and a Bad One Look Identical
Nothing on a Florida listing tells a tenant whether the wiring has ever been checked, whether the water heater is twenty years old, or whether anyone has looked at the roof since the last hurricane. There is no way to tell the difference — so nobody gets credit for doing it properly.
In the United Kingdom, none of this is optional. A landlord must hold a current gas safety certificate, renewed every year. An electrical installation condition report, renewed every five years. An energy rating before the property can be let at all. Miss one and you cannot legally rent the property, and you cannot evict a tenant. It is not a badge of honour there — it is the floor.
Florida has no equivalent. Not a weaker version — none at all. No periodic electrical inspection is required on an existing dwelling, ever. No energy certificate. No annual safety check of any kind for an ordinary long-term rental. What happens instead is that insurers ask questions when a policy is written, and nobody asks anything in between.
The Standard borrows the useful part of the British model — a known set of checks, on a known schedule, evidenced — and makes it something a Florida landlord chooses rather than something they are forced into.
The Requirements
What a Certified Property Must Have
Five checks. Every one carried out by a licensed Florida contractor, documented, dated and held on file. Certification is annual — the badge lapses if a check falls out of date.
4-Point Inspection
Roof, electrical, plumbing and HVAC assessed and reported. The backbone of the Standard, and the closest thing Florida has to a whole-property health check.
Electrical Safety Inspection
A full inspection of the electrical installation by a licensed electrician — panel, circuits, bonding, outlets and protection. Florida's direct answer to the British EICR.
Gas Safety Inspection
Every gas appliance, connection and flue checked by a licensed contractor for leaks, combustion and ventilation. The equivalent of the UK's annual gas safety certificate.
Wind Mitigation Report
The state form documenting roof attachment, roof-to-wall connection, opening protection and secondary water resistance — verified current each year, and re-inspected when it expires or the building changes.
Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Alarms
Working alarms confirmed, positioned correctly and dated at the start of every tenancy, with CO detection wherever there is gas, a fireplace or an attached garage.
Membership
What Members Receive
Certification runs for twelve months. We schedule everything, chase the contractors and keep the file, so membership is something you hold rather than something you administer.
The certificate
A dated certificate per property listing every check, when it was done and who carried it out.
A badge for your listing
A digital badge for Zillow, Airbnb and your own site, plus a window decal for the property itself.
The schedule, run for you
We book every check, meet the contractor on site and start renewals before anything expires.
One evidence file
Every report in one place, ready for an insurer, a lender, a buyer or a tenant who asks.
Why bother
What the Standard Is Actually For
For the landlord
Doing things properly currently earns you nothing visible. The Standard changes that, and pays for itself in ways that are easy to underrate.
- Problems found on your schedule, not three weeks before your policy renews
- A dated record of care if a tenant is ever hurt and asks what you checked
- Something to put on a listing that no competing landlord has
- Fewer emergency callouts, because the failures get caught in the annual check
- Wind mitigation kept current, which is a discount you are entitled to anyway
For the tenant
The people who live in these properties have almost no way to judge one before they sign. That is the gap the Standard is really aimed at.
- Somebody qualified has looked at the wiring, the gas and the roof this year
- Working smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, confirmed and dated
- A landlord who has chosen to be held to something
- A property more likely to survive a storm without a hole in the roof
Joining
How to Get Certified
Assessment
Send us the property. We establish what already exists, what is in date and what is missing, and quote the gap.
Bring it up to standard
We schedule the outstanding checks and any remedial work, coordinate access and meet the contractors on site.
Certified for 12 months
Certificate, badge and decal issued. We hold the calendar and start each renewal before it expires.
Questions
Straight Answers
Is this an official or government certification?
No, and we will never imply otherwise. The MaintComply Standard is a private, voluntary benchmark that we set and administer. Florida has no state safety certification for rental property — that absence is precisely why the Standard exists. Meeting it does not exempt you from any legal obligation, and failing to hold it breaks no law.
My property is all-electric. Does the gas requirement apply?
No. The gas inspection applies only where there is a gas appliance, natural or propane. The majority of Florida housing is all-electric, in which case the requirement simply does not apply and certification proceeds on the other four checks.
Why does the electrical inspection matter so much?
Because nothing in Florida requires one, ever. A property can be let for forty years without a single electrician looking at the installation. The only electrical review most Florida rentals ever get is the brief one inside an insurance 4-point. A proper inspection every five years, and at change of tenancy, is the single biggest difference between the Standard and the status quo.
Does certification make my property insurable or cheaper to insure?
It helps, but we will not promise it. Carriers set their own terms and no third-party certification binds them. What certification does give you is a current 4-point and a current wind mitigation report — the two documents carriers actually ask for — and the wind mitigation credits are set out in Florida statute, so those you are entitled to regardless.
What happens if something fails?
You get the report, a priority-ranked list and a quote. Certification is issued once the outstanding items are closed. Nothing is published, and there is no public record of a failed check — the Standard is meant to raise properties, not to punish landlords for having them looked at.
Do I have to join this to book work with you?
Not at all. The Standard is a separate, optional membership. Everything else we do — emergency callouts, repairs, inspections, safety audits — is available to anyone, one job at a time, with no membership, contract or minimum. Plenty of our customers never join, and that is fine.
Can I certify a portfolio rather than one property?
Yes, and it is the more common arrangement. Certification is held per property, but scheduling, reporting and renewal run across the portfolio, and per-property cost falls with volume.
Set a standard worth having.
Florida will not ask you to do any of this. That is exactly why it means something when you do.