Yavapai County, AZ Rental Property Rules: Rental Registration (2026)

Arizona's landlord registration statute, A.R.S. §33-1902, requires an owner of residential rental property to file the property's address and the owner's name and contact information, or that of a statutory agent for an out-of-state owner, with the county assessor where the property sits, and to keep that information current with the Assessor's Office. Yavapai County's zoning ordinance cross-references that duty directly inside its 2024 Accessory Dwelling Unit rules: Section 537(B)(7)(b) states that allowing an ADU to be used as long-term rental housing 'does not exempt an owner of a residential rental property from registering and maintaining with the Yavapai County Assessor's Office any required information pursuant to A.R.S. §33-1902.'

The cross-reference matters because Section 537(B)(7)(a) separately makes long-term rental of an ADU, or of the main house on the same lot, a permitted use. Without Section 537(B)(7)(b), that permission could look like it replaces the separate state filing duty; instead, the ordinance makes the two obligations stack: an ADU owner has to satisfy both the zoning standards for the unit itself, size, setbacks, parking, and the state's rental-registration requirement filed with the Yavapai County Assessor, on top of any registration requirement that would apply to renting out the primary dwelling.