Overview

With the increase of short-term vacation rentals (STR), such as those advertised on Airbnb, VRBO, and FlipKey, many communities are struggling to define and enforce the regulations that ensure revenue collection and support preservation of community safety and character.

• <10% of STR owners voluntarily register and pay all taxes
• 15x increase in STR listings since 2011
• 27 global markets saw STRs outperform hotels in the last year
• 100s of STR sites make it impossible to track manually
• 239% increase in STR party house complaints in the last year

Using AI and machine-learning, the Host Compliance comprehensive short-term rental solution from Granicus can provide the data that manual enforcement solutions cannot, reducing the hours spent managing compliance, and providing up to 20 times return on investment with recouped tax, permit, and fee revenues.

Outcomes

Without strategic regulations and effective enforcement, short-term vacation rentals can bring safety, noise, trash, and parking problems, as well as impact long-term housing affordability, livability, and neighborhood character.

UNDERSTAND THE SCALE AND SCOPE OF STRS IN THE COMMUNITY With hundreds of STR websites out there, manual tracking is nearly impossible. Using AI and machine-learning, Host Compliance helps to automate the identification of STR addresses and owners, bringing the visibility staff needs and saving thousands of work hours.

RECOUP CRITICAL REVENUE THAT WOULD BE LOST TO NONCOMPLIANCE By simplifying permitting and tax collection online, departments can recover up to 20x more revenue from the STR market without adjusting staff numbers, bringing critical dollars into the community.

INCREASE COMPLIANCE RATE

Watch compliance rates climb while saving hundreds or thousands of staff hours by automating time-intensive tasks like monitoring STR platforms and communicating with non-compliant properties. Notify any non-compliant hosts about the requirements to operate a STR with the click of a button.

HOLD NON-COMPLIANT HOSTS ACCOUNTABLE Make auditing financially viable through smarter identification of operators who underreport taxes or exceed rental frequency and rental-cap regulations with a solution that pays for itself five to 20 times over.

Functionality

Understand the size and scope of local STRs. Identify STR properties, owners, and revenue opportunities. Protect community character and safety standards. Host Compliance helps communities do it all with efficient tools and process automation to help implement and enforce fair regulations.

• Address identification
• Mobile permitting and tax collection
• Compliance monitoring
• Rental activity monitoring
• 24/7 complaints hotline service
• Regulations consulting