Cleveland, OH Short-Term Rentals: Extended Home Share (2026)

Section 686B.05(d) draws a hard line between Cleveland's short-term rental chapter and its ordinary landlord-tenant rental registration system in Chapter 365. It says short-term rentals are not required to hold a Chapter 365 certificate of rental registration as long as the unit remains a genuine short-term rental, but the moment a dwelling unit is rented to the same guest for more than 30 consecutive days, it falls outside the § 686B.02(j) definition of 'short-term rental' altogether and instead requires a certificate of rental registration under Chapter 365.

That 30-day boundary is baked into the definitions section too: § 686B.02(j) defines a short-term rental as an accommodation where the stay to any transient guest is for not more than thirty consecutive days, and § 686B.06(a) separately bars an owner from renting or leasing a short-term rental for a period of more than thirty consecutive days. A related carve-out in § 686B.07(d) also exempts a dwelling that operated as 'limited lodging' under the older § 337.251 for at least a year before the chapter's effective date from the STR density cap, provided that operation stayed under 91 days per calendar year and no stay exceeded 30 consecutive days.

A host who wants to offer longer, month-plus stays in the same unit needs to register that use under Chapter 365 instead of relying on the § 686B.03 short-term rental license.