Dolphin Point Condos for Sale

HOA & Fees

A 1976 building is the case Florida's reserve rules were written around. Section 718.112 requires a residential condominium association to have a structural integrity reserve study completed at least every ten years after the condominium's creation, for each building on the property that is three stories or higher, and the reserve amounts in an adopted budget must follow that study's findings and recommendations. The same subsection closed the escape route that associations once relied on: for a budget adopted on or after December 31, 2024, owners of an association required to obtain such a study may no longer vote to provide no reserves or reduced reserves for the items the study covers. Ask for the study, then ask what the adopted budget does with it. Reserves are not the only clock running on a building this old, either. Section 553.899 requires an owner of a building three stories or more in height that is subject, in whole or in part, to the condominium form to have a milestone inspection performed by December 31 of the year the building reaches thirty years of age, measured from the certificate of occupancy date, and it provides that a building which reached thirty before July 1, 2022 had to have its initial inspection performed before December 31, 2024. On the construction year the county records, that deadline is behind this property rather than ahead of it, so the milestone inspection here is not a future obligation but a report that should already exist. The statute then repeats the inspection every ten years, which means the live question at this age is not when the first one fell due but which cycle the association is currently in and what the last one found. Ask for the milestone report and for whatever repair work it called for, alongside the reserve study, because on a building of this age those documents together are the real condition report.

Rental Policy

Short-term rentals: allowed. Confirm the current minimum stay and registration with the association.

Parking is the city rule most likely to matter at Dolphin Point. Destin asks each registrant to sign a sworn statement of the parking on site. The city gives a written guide for counting it. That space count goes on the posted sign with the manager's contact and the guest limit. With 120 homes sharing the point, ask the association how many spaces belong to your unit. Registration repeats every year. The city zoning map lists the districts where the use is allowed. The recorded declaration governs on its own terms. Ask the association for a current copy.