Navarre Beach Against Illegal Taxation Committee

A Committee of the Navarre Beach Leaseholders and Residents Association

 

 

How to Obtain Lease Documents

 

 

Current Lease Assignment - This is the lease assignment that transfers your property from the former owner to you.

(information for obtaining your original lease assignment is detailed below)

 

Your Current Lease Assignment can be obtained as follows:

• Check your closing documents -  You would have signed this lease assignment at your closing.

• Santa Rosa County Clerk of Court at the office locations listed below. The Clerk of Court has a per page charge for copies of these documents.

                                Santa Rosa County Clerk of Courts Office Locations:

                                Main Office:  6495 Caroline Street, Milton, FL 32570   Telephone: (850) 983-1880

                                South Service Center:  5841 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Ste. A, Gulf Breeze, FL 32563  Telephone: (850) 934-8175

                                Your best contact is Jeanne Bradshaw, who handles the Navarre Beach Leases for the County. Her direct 

                                number is (850) 983-1957.

 

• Online at www.myfloridacounty.com

• Call Jean Bradshaw at (850) 983-1957 to request your book and page number of your current lease ssignment as recorded in the Santa Rosa County
• Go to the website www.myfloridacounty.com 
• Click on "Order Official Records" on the "Online Services" menu to the right of the page
• Select "non-subscriber search"

• Enter your book and page number to order

 

• Santa Rosa Clerk of Court’s web site www.santarosaclerk.com.  The records on the Clerk's website only go back to 1984.  If you bought your property prior to 1984, those records will not be available online here.

    Specific instructions to search at the Santa Rosa Clerks Office:

1. Go to www.santarosaclerk.com
2. On the home page, about half-down the text, click on the link to "County Official Records Index and Imaging Online".
3. On the next page, click on the link at the top of the text "Continue to Official Records"
4. On the next screen, elect "agree" to the disclaimer
5. You will be taken to the search page and enter your search criteria

                        or just click here to go directly to the Santa Rosa Clerks search page

 

• Your Title or Closing Company -  Your Insurer or Title Company may retain a copy of your current lease assignment in their files if you had a recent purchase.  Many offices move older closing documents to archives or off-site storage and they may not be readily available.   Your title company may offer, for a fee,  the service to search the county records for you to obtain this current lease assignment.

 

Initial, First or Original Lease Assignment - This is the lease assignment that transfers your property from the Santa Rosa County Beach Administration to the first lessee of your property.  For condo owners, this lease (sometimes called the "ground lease"), may be found in your Condominium Declaration documents.

 

Your Initial, First or Original Lease Assignment can be obtain as follows:

• Santa Rosa County Clerk of Court at the office locations listed below. The Clerk of Court has a per page charge for copies of these documents.

                                Santa Rosa County Clerk of Courts Office Locations:

                                Main Office:  6495 Caroline Street, Milton, FL 32570   Telephone: (850) 983-1880

                                South Service Center:  5841 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Ste. A, Gulf Breeze, FL 32563  Telephone: (850) 934-8175

                                Your best contact is Jean Bradshaw, who handles the Navarre Beach Leases for the County. Her direct 

                                number is (850) 983-1957.

 

• Online at www.myfloridacounty.com

• Call Jean Bradshaw at (850) 983-1957 to request your book and page number of your original lease assignment as recorded in the Santa Rosa County.  For Escambia County leases, call (850) 595-3939.
• Go to the website www.myfloridacounty.com 
• Click on "Order Official Records" on the "Online Services" menu to the right of the page
• Select "non-subscriber search"

• Enter your book and page number to order

             

• Santa Rosa Clerk of Court’s web site www.santarosaclerk.com.  If you have obtained the book and page number of your initial  lease as recorded in the official records (from Jean Bradshaw  noted above), those records MAY be available online here.

    Specific instructions to search at the Santa Rosa Clerks Office:

1. Go to www.santarosaclerk.com
2. On the home page, about half-down the text, click on the link to "County Official Records Index and Imaging Online".
3. On the next page, click on the link at the top of the text "Continue to Official Records"
4. On the next screen, elect "agree" to the disclaimer
5. You will be taken to the search page
6. Click on the link below the search criteria blocks labeled "Click here to search older non-indexed images"

 

                        or just click here to go directly to the Santa Rosa Clerks search page

 

• Your Title or Closing Company -  Your Title Company may have retained a copy of your original  lease assignment in their files.  Many offices move older closing documents to archives or off-site storage and they may not be readily available.   Your title company may offer, for a fee,  the service to search the county records for you to obtain this original lease assignment.  If you have a title insurance policy, it may also reference the book and page number of your original lease as recorded in Santa Rosa and Escambia Counties and you can simply order online as noted above from www.myfloridacounty.com.