Where short-term rentals are allowed in Daytona Beach, FL

What Daytona Beach asks of you

• The code defines other accommodations as a dwelling unit rented to transient persons or tourists for less than six months. It excludes hotels, motels and B&B inns, which generally rent by the night.^[8]

• Table 5.2.A.2 permits other accommodations by right in all four tourist districts and in no other district of that table.^[7]

• Table 5.2.A.3 permits the use by right in a number of the redevelopment districts as well.^[7]

• Both tables note that the use is grandfathered from the 2011 amendment to Florida Statutes § 509.032(7). That amendment preempts local regulation of vacation rentals.^[7]

• A rented accessory dwelling unit needs a written lease of more than six months. Either the main house or the ADU must be owner-occupied.^[7]

• The city's rental property registration covers long-term rentals, with a minimum of six months plus one day. Owners of fewer than five units register annually, for $75 a unit.^[6]

• Owners planning anything shorter are directed to the city's Business Tax Office, which confirms whether the zoning allows it.^[6]

What Florida asks wherever you host

These rules apply at this address whatever the city decides.

• Florida licenses vacation rentals itself. A dwelling license covers houses, townhouses and buildings of up to four units. A condominium or cooperative unit takes a condominium license instead. The license costs $150 plus $10 per rental unit, plus a $10 hospitality education fee.^[2]

• No Florida city may ban vacation rentals. It may not set how long or how often you rent either. The one exception is a local ordinance already in force on June 1, 2011, which still applies.^[1]

• State sales tax is due on every rental of six months or less. A bona fide written lease for more than six months of continuous residence is exempt. So is the seventh month onward once a guest has stayed and paid for six.^[3]