Flagler Beach, FL short-term rental registration

What Flagler Beach asks of you

• An owner operating a resort dwelling or resort condominium must obtain a local business tax receipt before entering any new rental agreement, and hold a city rental permit for the property.^[6]

• When the initial application is submitted, the city schedules an inspection of the property by the fire marshal or a designee.^[6]

• The application must give the name, local street address and local telephone number of a local contact available twenty-four hours a day for emergencies.^[6]

• Any change of local contact has to be notified to the city in writing within ten days, and the contact information must be posted at the property.^[6]

• In the thirty days before a permit expires the owner performs an annual self-inspection and completes a compliance regulations worksheet, both provided to the city with the renewal.^[6]

• The self-inspection form certifies that nothing has changed since the last inspection, under Appendix A, Land Development Regulations section 2.06.12, Rental Units.^[6]

What Florida asks wherever you host

These rules apply at this address whatever the city decides.

• Florida licenses vacation rentals itself. A house, townhouse or unit in a building of four units or fewer is licensed as a dwelling, a unit in a condominium or cooperative as a condominium, and the licence costs $150 plus $10 per rental unit plus a $10 hospitality education fee.^[2]

• A city cannot ban vacation rentals, nor regulate how long or how often you rent, unless its ordinance was already on the books on June 1, 2011. Ordinances adopted before that date survive untouched, which is why two neighbouring Florida towns can sit at opposite ends of the scale.^[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, and so is the seventh month onward once a guest has stayed and paid for six.^[3]