Stucco repair costs in Ocala

No metro in the country grew faster than Ocala from mid-2024 to mid-2025. The Census Bureau puts its gain at 3.4 percent in that one year, first on its list. Across the metro, more than four in ten homes were built in 2000 or later, and only about one in a hundred dates to before 1940, Census estimates show. About one home in six is a mobile home.

So around Ocala, a stucco problem can easily be a new-house problem. If something goes wrong with the walls of a house that was built or re-clad recently, Florida law sets out steps to take before anyone sues. You serve a written notice of claim on the contractor at least 60 days before filing, and the law asks you to try to send it within 15 days of finding the defect. The notice has to describe each defect and where it is, based on at least a visual look. You don't have to cut into the wall to test it first.

Then the contractor gets a turn. Within 30 days they're entitled to inspect, and within 45 days they have to answer in writing. One of the answers the law allows is an offer to fix the defect at no cost to you, with a timetable.

The day you spot the problem, take dated photos and write down where it is. That makes the notice easy to write.