Mesa STR rules apply only to stays under thirty consecutive days. Bookings of thirty-one nights or more convert to ordinary residential tenancies governed by the Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, not STR registration.
ARS §9-500.39 defines short-term and vacation rentals using a thirty-day threshold consistent with state lodging tax law. When a single guest stays at a Mesa property for thirty-one consecutive days or longer, the booking falls outside the STR registration scheme. The relationship instead becomes a residential tenancy under ARS §33-1301 and following, the Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. That shift triggers eviction protections, security deposit limits, and habitability duties. Hosts marketing extended corporate-housing stays should structure leases accordingly and stop charging transient lodging tax once the threshold is crossed.
Misclassifying a thirty-plus-day stay as transient may trigger improper tax collection claims and tenant displacement liability under URLTA self-help eviction prohibitions.
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