What does it cost to legally short-term rent?

Permit fees, licences and taxes, assembled from what each city publishes — with the conditions that decide whether you can operate at all.

40 cities

How this is built

Every figure is taken from the city that published it and carries the date we checked. Industry guides round these numbers and get them wrong — one widely-repeated guide puts Austin’s licence at “$700+”; the city’s own page says $836.30, and renewal is $385.30.

Where a figure has not been verified against the city, it is shown as not verified and left out of the total rather than quietly counted as zero. A total that is confidently wrong is worse than a total with a hole in it.