Houston's STR ordinance does not create a tiered extended home-share license for stays of 30+ days or longer-term home-sharing arrangements. Stays beyond 29 nights generally fall outside hotel occupancy tax and STR registration, and are treated as residential leases under Texas Property Code Chapter 92.
Cities like Los Angeles distinguish standard short-term rentals (under 30 nights) from extended home-share programs that allow 30+ night stays in primary residences. Houston's STR framework does not create a separate extended home-share tier. Texas hotel occupancy tax under Tax Code Chapter 156 applies only to stays under 30 consecutive days; the City of Houston imposes a local hotel occupancy tax on the same base. Once a guest reaches the 30-day threshold the relationship converts to a residential tenancy under Texas Property Code Chapter 92, with full landlord-tenant duties on habitability, security deposits, and notice. Operators wishing to combine short and long stays under one program must respect both regimes simultaneously.
Mischaracterizing a 30+ day stay as transient to avoid tenancy duties exposes the operator to TPC Chapter 92 statutory damages, while collecting hotel occupancy tax on a long-stay arrangement invites refund claims and Tax Code penalties.
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