Winter Park, CO short-term rental registration

What Winter Park asks of you

• Title 3, Chapter 10 of the town code applies to rentals of less than 30 consecutive days.^[5]

• The town's Rent Your Home page sets a different threshold. It asks for a business license and sales tax on rentals of less than 31 days.^[10]

• The finance department lists the short-term rental registration at $150 a year. The business license adds $60 a year.^[8]

• Every registration expires on September 30, whatever its start date. A partial year is not prorated.^[7]

• A home that sleeps 20 people or more needs a special use permit before it can register.^[5]

• Each ad has to display the number prominently, worded as “Winter Park Short-Term Rental Registration No.” and then the number.^[6]

• Cars belong on the unit's own site or in a town-designated lot. Lawns and the adjacent street are off limits. Nobody may sleep in a vehicle parked at the rental.^[6]

• Ads list the on-site spaces. A unit without any must say so and add that street parking is not allowed.^[6]

• Under the town code, the owner warns guests of quiet hours starting at 10:00 p.m. each evening. They last until 7:00 a.m., with the owner taking reasonable steps to enforce them.^[6]

• On the town's Good Neighbor page, the quiet period also opens at 10:00 p.m. It closes at 8:00 a.m. instead.^[7]

• The code's evidence of a noise violation is a sound audible 50 feet from its source, louder than anything else nearby.^[6]

• A responsible agent is named at registration and stays reachable around the clock. Complaints get a response within 60 minutes.^[6]

• Smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors and fire extinguishers must work at all times. Wood-burning fireplaces and stoves are cleaned once a year.^[6]

• A copy of the registration hangs in a visible spot inside the unit, with the town's conditions beside it.^[6]

• Wildlife roams the town, so trash may not sit outside overnight. From November 1 to May 1, no car may park overnight on any town street.^[7]

• An owner caught renting without a registration gets a certified letter and ten business days to fix it. After that, each day counts as a separate offense.^[5]

• Within a registration's twelve-month term, a first offense can bring a warning, a $500 fine or a suspension of 90 days at most.^[6]

• A second offense costs $1,000. The town may also revoke the registration.^[6]

• An owner who disputes a penalty writes to the town manager within ten days of the notice.^[6]

What Colorado asks wherever you host

These rules apply at this address whatever the city decides.

• When guests book through a platform, it collects Colorado sales tax on the full amount charged. The platform also handles any county lodging tax and local marketing district tax.^[1]

• Lodging taxes a city sets stay outside the state's system, since the Department of Revenue administers none of them. Home-rule cities that run their own sales tax sit outside it too, so start with your city.^[1]

• Hosts who take direct bookings need a Colorado sales tax license and collect the 2.9% state rate themselves. The license is $16, prorated, with a $50 deposit returned once your state tax tops $50.^[2]