Orlando is the largest short term rental market in the United States, about 40,600 active listings across the metro by AirDNA's count. Inside city limits, though, the legal product is narrow: registered home sharing, with the host living on site. Listings here are claimed by their hosts and checked against the City of Orlando registration file: 96 issued registrations are active out of 537 permit records in the current file. Listings show neighborhood and ZIP only.
A License verified badge means the registration number on the claim matched an issued, active registration in the City of Orlando file. Featured listings appear first.
Founding pricing for Florida is $49 per month, locked for the life of the subscription. The Florida plan covers the City of Orlando license file live today: new registrations, renewals, and status changes for registered home sharing inside city limits. Statewide Florida coverage is a founding waitlist until the statewide license pull is built, because the whole home supply around Kissimmee and Osceola County runs on state vacation rental licenses, not the city file.
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Inside city limits, it is home sharing or nothing. Since July 1, 2018, the City of Orlando has allowed short term rentals in residential areas only as registered home sharing under Chapter 58 of the city code: the host lives in the home and is present during stays, no more than half the bedrooms can be rented, and only one booking at a time is allowed. Renting a whole home is a Commercial Dwelling Unit, a use the zoning code allows only in certain nonresidential and mixed use districts. The city publishes every Short Term Property Rental permit request from the last five years as open data, and that file is what a claim here is checked against.
Most of the metro's rentals are not in Orlando at all. The whole home vacation rentals the Orlando market is famous for sit mostly outside city limits, in the Kissimmee and Osceola County resort communities along US 192, places like Windsor Hills, Reunion, and Storey Lake, where the county Short Term Rental Overlay zoning allows them. The paperwork there is different: a Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation vacation rental license, an Osceola County Local Business Tax Receipt, and a Tourist Development Tax account. Unincorporated Orange County goes the other way and generally requires stays of 30 nights or more in residential zones outside its tourist districts. Neither county publishes a license file we can check a claim against yet, so a Kissimmee or Osceola claim is reviewed by a person and carries no badge until a checkable file exists. We would rather say that plainly than fake a check.
The badge is a fact, not an ad. A License verified badge means the number matched an issued, active registration at claim time. Verification comes free with the Basic listing and is never sold; Featured buys placement only.
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