Property Exemption Form – Cuyahoga County, OH

The Property Exemption Form, titled Exemption from Residential Rental Registration, is the Cuyahoga County Fiscal Officer form on which a property owner states why a Cuyahoga County property is not a rental and should be exempt from residential rental registration.

The Fiscal Officer's page on the Residential Rental Property Disclosure explains the background: Ohio Revised Code 5323.02 and 5323.99 requires an owner of "residential rental property" to file certain information with the Fiscal Officer of the county in which the property is located. The same page links three items together: an online Residential Rental Disclosure Application, a Residential Rental Disclosure Application, and this Property Exemption Form. The exemption form is the one for owners whose property is not a rental.

The form collects the owner's name, contact number, address and ownership type (individual, corporation, trust or other), the officer or trustee when one applies, and the property's address, parcel number, number of units and year built. The owner then marks the reason the property is not a rental and signs a declaration under penalties of perjury that the statement is true, correct and complete.

The form is not the rental disclosure itself. It does not report a rental property or its agent; it explains why no rental registration applies.

Owners of Cuyahoga County property who do not rent it out, and who want to state why it is not a rental, use this form. The form lists the reasons it recognizes:

• the property is currently listed for sale;
• the owner is deceased or has a long-term illness and the property has been vacant more than 2 years;
• the property is listed as owned by a business name, or is the owner's second home (the form notes this does not qualify for the owner-occupied credit);
• a family member lives in the home and no rent is charged;
• another reason, which you explain in writing on the form.

Owners that are not individuals complete the Officer/Trustee name and phone lines, so a corporation or trust names the person acting for it. The Owner/Applicant Signature line is signed by the owner or applicant.

Owners whose property is a residential rental do not claim this exemption. The Fiscal Officer's page says an owner of residential rental property must disclose it to the county, even if it is already registered with the municipality, using the disclosure application listed on the same page.

The form prints no due date of its own. You complete it when you need to state that a Cuyahoga County property is not a rental, for one of the reasons printed on it, such as a pending sale or a family member living there without paying rent.

Timing rules on the Fiscal Officer's disclosure page belong to the rental disclosure, which sits next to this form: it is a one-time filing, changes must be updated with the county within 60 days (including weekends and holidays), and failure to file or to update information on time may lead to a penalty assessed after each tax bill, which can be appealed to the County Board of Revision. If your situation changes, for example the property becomes a rental, contact the Fiscal Office to confirm what applies.

The form does not name a return channel; it prints the Fiscal Officer's contact details at the top, so confirm how the office wants it returned before you send it.

• Address on the form: Cuyahoga County Fiscal Officer, 2079 E. 9TH Street, 4th Floor, Cleveland, Ohio 44115.
• Phone: (216) 443-7020.
• Fax: (216) 698-2748.
• Email (from the county's disclosure page): [email protected], for questions.

The signed form carries the owner's signature, the date and an email address, so complete all three before it goes to the office. FillingPDF lets you fill out and download the PDF; submission follows the Fiscal Officer's channels.