Clinical evaluation · Full refund only if the clinician does not approve a letter · Housing only
Clinical evaluation · Full refund only if the clinician does not approve a letter · Housing only
Clinical evaluationFull refund only if the clinician does not approve a letter
Start evaluationClinical evaluation · Full refund only if the clinician does not approve a letter · Housing only
Pinellas County · Statewide Florida service
St. Petersburg, Gulfport, and Pinellas County renters use the same statewide clinical evaluation as the rest of Florida. Telehealth with a Florida-licensed clinician. Housing only. Not a registry.
Pinellas is a county of condo associations, older neighborhoods with small landlords, and waterfront buildings with their own rules. The Florida law is the same from downtown St. Pete to Clearwater. What changes is who holds the animal file.
Downtown St. Petersburg towers and warehouse-to-loft conversions often keep the no-pet rider from the first residential conversion. Many split the animal file between a condo association and a rental manager. Put the letter in the file the lease names: the association, the manager, or both.
Bungalows, duplexes, and garage apartments in neighborhoods such as Old Northeast and Kenwood are often rented by individual owners. A small landlord may not have handled an ESA request before. A written request and a clinician letter with license details give them something concrete to review, and the landlord support page explains the rest.
Pinellas barrier-island and mainland buildings, from St. Pete Beach to Clearwater, often have both association rules and lease rules. The written housing request is how those two documents get considered together.
Students at USF St. Petersburg and renters in newer complexes often lease through managers who want a PDF uploaded to a resident portal. If the clinician approves, the letter is a signed English PDF you can upload.
Approval is a clinical decision. We never promise what a landlord or HOA will decide.
General information, not legal advice. Each request is decided on its facts.
No. Fla. Stat. 760.27 applies statewide, and every Florida city gets the same evaluation and the same letter. A Pinellas County (Gulfport, Clearwater) landlord or association can check the clinician license on Florida MQA and the NPI lookup through the verify page.
A new evaluation is $149 and a renewal is $99, the same in every Florida city. Each extra animal is $49, and an optional priority call is $49 (set call and decision times, or the $49 comes back). Full refund only if the clinician does not approve a letter.
Fla. Stat. 760.27(2)(a) lets a housing provider deny a request if the animal poses a direct threat to the safety or health of others or a direct threat of physical damage to the property of others, which threat cannot be reduced or eliminated by another reasonable accommodation. A landlord saying no is not a refund.
Yes. The evaluation is by telehealth with a Florida licensed clinician, in English or Spanish. Letters for landlords are in English.
When the need is not obvious, reliable information from a practitioner with personal knowledge. Under Fla. Stat. 760.27(3)(a), a housing provider may not request information that discloses the diagnosis or severity of a disability or any medical records.
A condo association can ask for reliable information when the need is not readily apparent, and ordinary building paperwork such as vaccination records may be part of the packet. Under Fla. Stat. 760.27(3)(a) it may not request the diagnosis, its severity, or medical records, and under 760.27(3)(b) it may not require a specific form or a notarized statement. General information, not legal advice.