St. Pete Beach, FL short-term rental registration

What St. Pete Beach asks of you

• Permanent transient lodging uses require a business tax licence, reviewed by both Zoning and the Fire Marshal before it is issued.^[6]

• Rentals of one month or more in single-family properties do not require a business tax licence.^[6]

• Code officers review listings, occupancy records and property activity to confirm compliance, and issue a notice of violation where they find one.^[6]

• The city directs complaints about short-term and vacation rentals to the state Department of Business and Professional Regulation as well as to its own code enforcement office.^[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]