Short-Term Rentals in Osceola County, FL (2026)

6 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Osceola County, Florida.

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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Osceola County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.

Short-Term Rental Permits

Florida law strips Osceola County of authority to ban short-term rentals or limit how often or how long a house can be rented, so the county's own rule is narrow: Sec. 13-48 just requires every short-term or long-term rental owner to hold one local business tax receipt per property under common ownership. F.S. § 509.032(7) is what locks the county out of stricter rules.

Short-Term Rental Rules in Osceola County

Some Restrictions

F.S. § 509.032(7)(a)-(b)

(7)(a) The regulation of public lodging establishments and public food service establishments, including, but not limited to, sanitation standards, inspections, training and testing of personnel, and matters related to the nutritional content and marketing of foods offered in such establishments, is preempted to the state. This paragraph does not preempt the authority of a local government or l...

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Taxes & Fees

Every short-term rental in unincorporated Osceola County, house, condo or room booked for six months or less, owes a 6 percent tourist development tax on top of the rent. Osceola County Code § 13-61 sets the rate, and the host or property manager must collect it from the guest at the time of payment.

Osceola County Tourist Development Tax

Some Restrictions

Osceola County Code § 13-61

(a) There is hereby levied and imposed a tourist development tax in the county at the rate of six (6) percent of each whole and major fraction of each dollar of the total rental charged every person who rents, leases or lets for consideration any living quarters or accommodations in any hotel, apartment hotel, motel, resort motel, apartment, apartment motel, rooming-house, mobile home park, rec...

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Short-Term Rental Parking Rules

Florida lets counties regulate parking for vacation rentals as long as the rule applies uniformly to all homes. Osceola County requires off-street parking for licensed short-term rentals and bans guests parking on lawns or blocking streets, consistent with its Land Development Code.

Parking rules for Osceola County short-term rentals

Some Restrictions

FS 509.032(7)(b)

A local law, ordinance, or regulation may not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals.

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Night Caps

Florida law bars Osceola County from capping how many nights a year a short-term or vacation rental can operate, or from banning them outright. Fla. Stat. § 509.032(7)(b) preempts any local duration-or-frequency rule adopted after June 1, 2011, which matters most in the dense Four Corners and Championsgate vacation-home clusters near Walt Disney World.

STR Night-Cap Preemption in Osceola County

Few Restrictions

Fla. Stat. § 509.032(7)(b)

(7) PREEMPTION AUTHORITY.-(a) The regulation of public lodging establishments and public food service establishments ... is preempted to the state. ... (b) A local law, ordinance, or regulation may not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals. This paragraph does not apply to any local law, ordinance, or regulation adopted on or before June 1...

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Host Presence Rule

No on-site host is required, but Osceola County (like most Florida jurisdictions) expects a responsible party or 24-hour local contact reachable to handle complaints. Florida bars counties from banning unhosted rentals, so whole-home, host-absent rentals are legal when licensed.

Is an on-site host required in Osceola County?

Some Restrictions

FS 509.032(7)(b)

A local law, ordinance, or regulation may not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals.

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Primary-Residence-Only Rule

No. Osceola County cannot require a short-term rental to be the owner's primary residence. Florida's FS 509.032(7)(b) bars counties from prohibiting vacation rentals or restricting their duration/frequency, so non-owner-occupied and investor-owned rentals are allowed if licensed.

Does Osceola County require a primary residence?

Some Restrictions

FS 509.242(1)(c)

A vacation rental is any unit or group of units in a condominium or cooperative or any individually or collectively owned single-family, two-family, three-family, or four-family house or dwelling unit that is also a transient public lodging establishment but that is not a timeshare project.

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Short-Term Rentals by City in Osceola County

1 cities in Osceola County have their own short-term rentals rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.

KissimmeePop. 79,226

2 verified rules • Extended Home Share, Short-Term Rental Permits

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