HOTEL/STR | INFORMATION | OPERATING LICENSING
- Application
- Click this link to determine which STR license type you need and to download the short-term rental license application for your type.
- Click this link to begin the on-line application process.
- $863.80 (non-refundable) Fee
- Cash, Check or Money Order Payable to the City of Austin. The application fee is non-refundable.
- (Includes $817.00 Application Fee, $45.00 Notification Fee, and $1.80 DSD Technology Fee)
- Proof of Property Insurance
- Declarations, Information or Summary Pages from your Policy
- Proof of Payment of City of Austin Hotel Occupancy Taxes (if applicable)
- Certificate of Occupancy
- To obtain your Certificate of Occupancy please email DSDCertificateofOccupancy@austintexas.gov
Mail to: City of Austin – DSD Code Compliance, Attn: Finance – STR, PO Box 1088, Austin, TX 78767. OR you may visit our office at 6310 Wilhelmina Delco Dr., Austin, TX 78752 between 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
$490.00 (non-refundable) Fee
- Cash, Check or Money Order Payable to the City of Austin. The application fee is non-refundable.
Proof of Current Property Insurance
- Declarations, Information or Summary Pages from your Policy
Proof of Payment of City of Austin Hotel Occupancy Taxes
- Copy of cancelled check, AND
- Copy of the Most Recent Quarter Tax report submitted to the City Controller’s Office, OR
- If you have not had any renters in this quarter, a copy of the zero report filed
Licenses can only be renewed prior to the expiration date. If your license has expired, please email strlicensing@austintexas.gov.
To renew the Operating License of your Short Term Rental (STR), the required documents and licensing fee can be mailed or brought in to our office. Mail to: City of Austin – DSD Code Compliance, Attn: Finance – STR, PO Box 1088, Austin, TX 78767. OR you may visit our office at 6310 Wilhelmina Delco Dr., Austin, TX 78752 between 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
NON_STR | |
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Bed and Breakfast | The use of an owner-occupied single-family residential structure to provide limited meal service and rooms for temporary lodging for overnight guests in return for compensation. |
Boarding House Commercial | A building, other than a hotel, where lodging and meals are provided for more than six (6) unrelated persons in return for compensation. |
Boarding House Residential | A building, other than a hotel, where lodging and meals are provided for more than siz (6) unrelated persons in return for compensation. |
Hotel | A building or a part of a building, in which there are guest rooms, rooming units or apartments which may be rented on a daily basis and are used primarily for transient occupancy and for which desk service is provided. In addition, one or more of the following services may be provided: maid, telephone, bellboy, or furnishing of linen. |
Motel | A building or a part of a building, in which there are guest rooms, rooming units or apartments which may be rented on a daily basis and are used primarily for transient occupancy and for which desk service is provided. In addition, one or more of the following services may be provided: maid, telephone, bellboy, or furnishing of linen. |
Rooming House Commercial | A building, other than a hotel, where lodging for more than six (6) unrelated persons is provided without meals in return for compensation. |
Rooming House Residential | A building, other than a hotel, where lodging for more than six (6) unrelated persons is provided without meals in return for compensation. |
STR | |
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Short Term Rental Type 1 | (1) rented for periods of less than 30 consecutive days, (2) not part of a multifamily use, (3) is an owner occupied principal residential unit. (4) includes the use of an entire dwelling unit. |
Short Term Rental Type 1-A | (1) must include the exclusive use of a sleeping room and shared use of a full bathroom, (2) the owner is generally present at the licensed short-term rental property for the duration of any short-term rental of a partial unit, (3) not more than one partial unit at the property is simultaneously rented for any period less than 30 consecutive days, and (4) limited to a single party of individuals. |
Short Term Rental Type 1-Secondary | (1) rented for periods of less than 30 consecutive days, (2) not part of a multifamily use, (3) associated with an owner-occupied principal residential unit, (4) includes the entire dwelling unit |
Short Term Rental Type 2 | (1) rented for periods of less than 30 consecutive days, (2) not part of a multifamily use, (3) is a non-owner-occupied residential unit. (4) includes the use of an entire dwelling unit. |
Short Term Rental Type 3 | Short-term rental multifamily use structures are: (1) rented for periods of less than 30 consecutive days, (2) is part of a multifamily residential use, (3) include the use of an entire dwelling unit and (4) is subject to density caps |