Find your Sister City / County for Tourism! If your municipality is struggling with short term rentals, consider taking a 10 minute survey to gain valuable insights into what matters in writing (or updating) a short term rental ordinance. The steps are simple Answer a few questions on tourism drivers in your City or County
Some cities, counties, states and countries have already made taxation at source agreements with websites such as AirBnB, but the problem with that is many short term rental owner/operators create their own webpages and use listing services such as VRBO, HomeAway, FlipKey and others to advertise their properties for rent. Their booking process and payment
Harmari proudly announces the latest update to the Short Term Rental web portal version 10.3. The following new features have been included in this release Dynamic interactive heat map providing real-time short term rental inventory data Improved duplicate detection combining image and meta-data Enhanced in-jurisdiction STR detection within 0.5 km of boundary-limit Enhanced County level
Beware the zombies! In light of Halloween today, many of our clients are not aware that short term rental listings can be in a state of inactivity while on the surface seeming to be active. This phenomenon is termed “zombie listings”. While the earthly zombies have pale grey skin, various facial disfigurations, and general ghastly
Harmari is pleased to announce that the City of La Quinta has contracted with LTAS Technologies Inc. to provide identification, monitoring, outreach and compliance services for their Vacation LQ program for the next 3 years. The Harmari product has several components to achieve an increased level of compliance to bring all Short Term Vacation Rental
A recent inventory count of Short Term Rentals (STRs) in Toronto has yielded astonishing results. Almost 11,000 STR listings were found, mostly on AirBnB with 9682. This coincides with new condominium inventory that has appeared in 2017. After reviewing the Heat Map below, the most inventory appears between the bounding box of East of Royal
any municipalities have partnered with at least one of the Short Term Rental (STR) websites to ensure that STR hosts are paying their fair share of lodging taxes in their jurisdiction. The STR website taxes the guests at source, and remits the taxes to the municipality (whether city or county). Now some of those municipalities
Many reasons exist why a short term vacation rental (STR) property may be considered illegal. From a municipal government standpoint, it could be against ordinance to operate a short term rental in a particular zoning area. Even if a short term rental operator has a permit, by having more people over than the maximum occupancy,
Hundreds of municipalities are working on identifying and monitoring short term vacation rentals (STRs) to make sure they are in compliance with ordinances, properly licensed and permitted, and collecting lodging taxes. In fact some have selected a vendor to outsource this work. However, that vendor may not be delivering on all the leads that can
When municipalities seek to regulate short term rentals, often something that is overlooked is the permitting system. In fact the permit number has significant value to Code Compliance departments that have to make sure everyone’s on the same level playing field. Here are some suggestions on how to design permit numbers: Always put the year