When the host is absent, Detroit caps short-term rentals at 14 unhosted nights per calendar year per dwelling. Booking platforms must transmit nightly stay counts to BSEED, and exceeding the cap voids the registration immediately.
Title 21, Article 8 limits whole-home unhosted STR activity to 14 nights annually. The cap is calendar-year based and resets each January 1. Hosts must keep a stay log, and Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking.com transmit aggregate nightly counts under the platform-data agreement Detroit signed in 2019. Once 14 unhosted nights are recorded, the listing is automatically deactivated by the platform and BSEED issues a notice. Rolling 14-night windows are not allowed; the limit is hard-capped per calendar year. Bookings made before the cap is hit but checking out afterward count fully against the cap.
Exceeding 14 unhosted nights: registration revocation, $1,500 first booking over cap, $2,500 per subsequent night. Falsifying log: $5,000 + criminal misdemeanor referral.
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