Louisville treats stays of 30 consecutive nights or more as long-term tenancies governed by landlord-tenant rules rather than the STR ordinance, exempting these arrangements from transient occupancy tax and STR registration requirements.
Under Louisville Metro's STR framework, rentals of 30 or more consecutive nights to the same guest fall outside the short-term rental definition and instead become subject to Kentucky's partial Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and any applicable Metro rental property rules. Operators offering extended home-share arrangements must shift expectations: written leases, security deposit limits under KRS §383, and for-cause eviction processes apply. Transient room tax does not attach to stays beyond the 30-night threshold, but income remains taxable through standard channels.
Mislabeling a 30-plus-night stay as a short-term rental to bypass tenant protections, or evicting an extended occupant without following landlord-tenant procedure, exposes operators to wrongful-eviction damages.
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