FAQs

You can apply using the online services located at:
MyFloridaLicense.com
or call the Customer Contact Center at 850.487.1395.

Here’s some information to be aware of:

• AGE: You must be at least 18 years of age.
• PRE-LICENSURE EDUCATION: Submit a Prelicensure Education Certificate from an approved provider consisting of at least 18 hours of pre-licensure education.
• FINGERPRINTS: An applicant must have a background check as part of the licensing process. To learn more about fingerprinting, please visit the:
  Fingerprint FAQs
  
• EXAMINATION: For information regarding the examination, please review the:
  Candidate Information Booklet
  
• FEE: Pay the required fee as provided in the application. If applying online, you can pay with a credit card or electronic check. If mailing your application, please include a check payable to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
• APPLICATION: Complete the application by clicking on the “Online Services” link or the “Printable Application” link at the bottom of the page.
• MORE INFORMATION: Learn More about this profession’s application requirements
  (use the back button or arrow to return to this page).

We meet in Destin, Fort Lauderdale, and Orlando.
CAM PREL dates and locations:
2019 CAM Prelicensure Schedule

Recently, the State has changed the rule so that you can take GSI’s classroom course or you may take the course via correspondence. Choose a hard copy to be mailed to you or an instant download to your computer, which you may print out and/or study from your monitor. Studying from your monitor also allows you to search.

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Visit the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation website at www.myfloridalicense.com. You will need to register there, choosing a username and password, and your social security number. If you have already made that step, go direction to the CAM Application.

PearsonVue, the testing center, offers finger printing.
You can get more information about this at: Test Taker Services.
The state suggests a variety of other locations in their
Community Association Manager Candidate Information Booklet.

When the state has competed the application processing your application, fingerprint check and your GSI Exam Preparation Course certificate, you will be contacted by the testing company, PearsonVUE. You set up your own date and time with PearsonVUE and will be tested at a site of your choice on a computer.

All Course Materials

Our course materials have been deemed “Best in Class” by our students. We published our first CAM Exam Prep Course Manual in 1988, the first in Florida. Since then “THE BOOK for managers and board members” as it has been called, has been constantly updated to reflect current law and trends. Fred Gray, President of GSI, actually wrote the CAM exam for the State. No one knows the material better than we do.

Classroom Courses
2019 CAM Prelicensure Schedule
If you have chosen to attend one of our classrooms, you will be given your classroom manual, exams, and valuable handouts, in class. Sign up now for the location of your choice.

Correspondence Courses
Your correspondence book will be emailed or mailed to you upon request.
HARD COPY (mailed)
ELECTRONIC VERSION (download)

61E14-1.001 Prelicensure Education Requirements.

(1) All community association manager applicants must satisfactorily complete a minimum of 16 in-person classroom hours of instruction of 50 minutes each within 12 months prior to the date of examination. No applicant shall be allowed to take the licensure examination unless the applicant provides documentation of completion of the requisite prelicensure education. Each contact hour shall consist of at least 50 minutes of classroom instruction.
(2) The 16 hours of prelicensure education shall be comprised of courses in the following areas:

(a) State and federal laws relating to the operation of all types of community associations, governing documents, and state laws relating to corporations and nonprofit corporations – 20%;
(b) Procedure for noticing and conducting community association meetings – 25%;
(c) Preparation of Community Association Budgets and Community Association Finances – 25%;
(d) Insurance matters relating to Community Associations – 12%; and
(e) Management and maintenance – 18%;