Condo Association Management Blog

In my experience the move out fee (and/or refundable deposit) is typically to protect the common areas in case of damages.  
 
If you have a tenant moving out, then another moving in directly afterwards then we would have charged you once for the refundable deposit (basically I would hold the deposit check until both moves were complete and providing there were no damages you would receive the check back), but then charged you TWICE for the fee as there were technically two moves going on (old tenant out, new tenant in). 
 
As far as the amount you were charged, you should check to see if your Board adopted any rules and regs stating specifically how much the fee/deposit would be as every association is different. I have seen $200 refundable deposits with no fees charged all the way to $500 refundable deposits with $100 fees...basically if you board adopts it, they can charge it.

I recommend you to looks your association docs. to seek what it says about this issues, if doesn't said anything, then you need to seek for the board resolution that implemented that rule and see if it's valid to charge that amount

Under Florida Statutes, the Board can charge up to one month of the lease and can hold this deposit until the renter moves out. 
 
This is to protect the common elements. 
 
However, this would have to be properly adopted by the Board.