About STR Rules Check
The five levers a city pulls, and which one decides whether you can let at all
What is on this site
One question, "short term rental regulations", answered with a checker that works on the page with no account, 4 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- Host presence rules: the lever no permit gets round: Where a city requires the host to be staying in the property, a whole-home let is not permitted at any price. What the requirement actually looks like.
- Registration and licensing: fees, terms and what a permit attaches to: The most tractable of the five levers. What Austin and New York City actually charge, and the question about transferability that changes what a buyer is buying.
- Platform accountability: why the old rules stopped being optional: The lever that turned short-term rental regulation from a risk into a gate. What it does, where it is in force, and the date Austin's version starts.
- Short-term rental tax basics, and what a permit does not cover: The federal fewer-than-15-days rule, the 14 day or 10 percent residence test, and why lodging tax is a separate registration from the permit.
Reach us
Contact for a question about the site, or contact@strrulescheck.com. The legal terms are on Terms and Privacy.
STR Rules Check is an independent site operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the City of New York, the City of Austin, the Internal Revenue Service, any booking platform or any government body, and it is not a law firm, a tax adviser or a property manager. Nothing here is legal or tax advice on a particular property. This site deliberately does not hold a rule database by city: those change on hundreds of independent local calendars and a stale table actively misleads a reader who checks it and stops. Every figure quoted is taken from the official page cited beside it and read on the date at the top of this page. Local rules change, so treat this as the order to check things in rather than as the answer for your address.