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BUILDING INSPECTION SERVICES, INC. OF DADE, a Florida corporation, Appellant, v. Isaac OLEMBERG and Nieves Olemberg, Appellees.
    Nos. 85-605, 85-606.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Oct. 15, 1985.
    Siegfried, Kipnis & Rivera and Lisa Mill-hauser, Miami, for appellant.
    Douglas D. Stratton and Pedro A. Cofi-no, Miami Beach, for appellees.
    Before BARKDULL, HUBBART and NESBITT, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

We hold that a letter filed in a cause by an officer of a defendant corporation, advising the court that the corporation is attempting to engage an attorney to represent it, constitutes a “paper” under Rule 1.500(a) Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, See Reicheinbach v. Southeast Bank, N.A., 462 So.2d 611 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985); Accord Dalminter, Inc., v. Jessie Edwards, Inc., 27 F.R.D. 491 (S.D.Tex.1961); McClintock v. Serv-Us Bakers, 103 Ariz. 72, 436 P.2d 891 (1968); Best v. Jones, 644 P.2d 89 (Colo.App.1982); Roland v. W & L Motor Lines, Inc., 32 N.C.App. 288, 231 S.E.2d 685 (1977); See also Hankin v. Blis-sett, 475 So.2d 1303 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985), and, a default entered by a clerk, with such a “paper” in the file, was not authorized, therefore the trial court erred in refusing to set same aside. Reicheinbach v. Southeast Bank, N.A., supra; Chester, Blackburn & Roder, Inc. v. Marchese, 383 So.2d 734 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980); Mo-Con Properties, Inc., v. American Mechanical, Inc., 289 So.2d 744 (Fla. 4th DCA 1974).

Reversed and remanded.