Sunny Isles Beach, FL short-term rental registration

What Sunny Isles Beach asks of you

• Ordinance 2018-522 requires a short-term vacation rental licence for each multi-family dwelling unit in a condominium, apartment building or cooperative rented for six months or less. A separate licence is needed for every unit.^[6]

• The licence is $300 and the local business tax receipt $100, with a $50 late payment fee.^[6]

• The application requires a DBPR transient public lodging establishment licence, liability insurance, the rental agreements, proof of smoke detectors and fire extinguishers, and written consent from the condominium association.^[6]

• A designated responsible party must be available twenty-four hours a day and respond to the unit within one hour.^[6]

• The owner must carry out an on-site inspection of the unit at the end of each rental period, and the city may inspect at any time on request.^[6]

• Violations in a twelve-month period cost $1,000, then $2,500, then $2,500 plus a one-year suspension of the licence.^[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]