Nobody licenses the company that runs your Mississippi HOA
Nobody licenses the company that runs your Mississippi HOA
2026-09-15 · Mississippi · Regulation
Mississippi does not license community association managers. There is no CAM licence, no registration, no state certification and no state body that hears a complaint about one. The credentials that circulate in the industry — CMCA, AMS, PCAM — are private and voluntary designations, not state authorisations.1
What the state does license
The Mississippi Real Estate Commission issues broker and salesperson licences under Miss. Code Ann. §§ 73-35-1 to 73-35-105. That is the whole of the state's real-estate licensing apparatus, and it contains no community-association-management category.
There is a complication worth knowing. The statutory definition of “real estate broker” reaches a person who, for a fee or commission or expecting one, will “list, sell, purchase, exchange, rent, lease, manage or auction any real estate.”
A third-party management company taking a fee to manage association-owned common property is therefore arguably inside the brokerage definition, while an association's own salaried on-site manager sits outside the act under its exemption for an owner's regular employees on a stated salary performing acts in the regular course of business.
The exact wording and subsection numbering of those provisions is something we would want to verify against the current statute before anyone relies on it; the licensing gap itself is not in doubt.
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