Your landscape vendor can start enhancement work today and invoice you tomorrow. Florida law will back them up if your contract is silent.
Most HOA landscape contracts are. No unit-rate schedule. No written change-order threshold. No storm-response billing cap. The board finds out when the invoice arrives, and by then the leverage is gone.
Here is what the contract language actually needs to do:
A signed unit-rate schedule as an exhibit at execution, not a future document. A written change-order threshold (typically $500 to $1,500 for Florida communities) built into the contract itself, not a side letter. A storm-response billing cap defining the maximum the vendor can bill without prior board approval. A 30-day cure period with a calendared auto-renewal deadline so the board retains real termination rights.
That is four of the seven terms. Every one of them traceable to the contract, enforceable, and presentable at a board meeting before a problem surfaces, not after.
At Green Image, every proposal comes with line-item pricing the board can read, present, and defend. No verbal quotes. No surprises on an invoice.
If your current contract is missing any of these terms, let us walk through it with you. Request your free Grounds Assessment at greenimagesite.com.
