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Prior to purchasing a property, how can you determine if it's legal to short term rent it?

Frank Zhang · Answer

Hi Trent - It's best to contact the local government directly for information on short term rental. It can vary by state, county, and town. You can also look into the local zoning maps and regulations. I'm in Florida as well if you have any specific questions.

Peter Mckernan · Answer

You need to call the city/local government to find out what they are allowing and not allowing on the STR front. That is the best bet!

Valentina Calla · Answer

Hey Trent! For my clients, I usually call the county's planning and zoning department to confirm they allow STRs, and you also have to double-check if the community is an HOA that allows it as well. Feel free to reach out if you have any more questions!

Shawn McCormick · Answer

@Trent Paulk are there specific areas of Orlando you are looking in to? Orange County as a whole does not allow it, that is why all of the surrounding counties do well. For Disney area rentals, Osceoloa has the most STR communities, then come Polk and Lake....many of which are designed specifically as vacation/resort communities. If you are looking outside of the Disney area, be more diligent on your research, Seminole, Volusia, Brevard will all have different rules and even those will change from area to area (like some towns only allow STR in 1 bedroom condo units, not 2 or 3 bedroom, crazy stuff like that.)

Of course that is just from the county level, you then will have to make sure the HOA allows it. A very basic way to help determine it would be to find the home/neighborhood you are interested in..go to map view and then satellite. If every home in the community has a pool, you are cool, if only a few do than you probably won't make any money there anyhow, even if the HOA allows it.

Hope this helps a bit.

Conner Olsen · Answer

@Trent Paulk Find out if it's in an HOA and read the docs. They can ban rentals easily.

Patricia Steiner · Answer

The easiest/fastest way:  google it.  Here's the ordinance for Orlando:  https://www.orlando.gov/files/...

Trent Paulk · Answer

Thank you Frank.

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