Revere, MA Short-Term Rentals: Extended Home Share (2026)
Key Facts
- Exclusion
- Bedroom or attached apartment inside host's own home
- Key condition
- Not accessed exclusively through a separate entry
- Effect
- Chapter 8.09 registration and cap do not apply
- Also excluded
- Month-to-month tenancy-at-will arrangements
- Not affected
- Separate ordinances on lodging/rooming/boardinghouses still apply
Summary
Renting out a bedroom or an attached apartment inside your own Revere home, reached through your own front door, is not a short-term rental at all under Municipal Code § 8.09.015(A): the entire chapter's registration, cap, and fee rules simply do not apply to that arrangement.
The provisions of this ordinance do not apply to the accommodation, for a fee, of a bedroom or attached apartment contained within and accessible through the operator's primary residence unit and is not accessed exclusively through a separate entry.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4804778; v14 updated 2026-05-04).
Full Breakdown
015, titled Exclusions, carves three arrangements out of the Short-Term Rentals chapter entirely. 015(A), covers the accommodation, for a fee, of a bedroom or attached apartment contained within and accessible through the operator's primary residence unit, so long as it is not accessed exclusively through a separate entry. 080. 015(C) makes clear the exclusions do not alter or nullify any other municipal ordinance governing lodging houses, rooming houses, or boardinghouses, so those uses remain separately regulated. Together these carve-outs mean a resident who simply rents a spare bedroom inside their own home, accessed from inside that home, can do so without registering as a short-term rental operator.
Violations & Fines
Because § 8.09.015(A) excludes this arrangement from the Short-Term Rentals chapter altogether, none of § 8.09.080's fines or cease-and-desist authority apply to it as such. A host who instead lets the room be accessed through its own separate exterior entrance, or who exceeds the boundaries of the exclusion, falls back under the full chapter and its four-hundred-ninety-dollar-per-day penalty for operating without registration.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to register a spare bedroom I rent inside my Revere house?
What is the difference between this exclusion and a regular short-term rental?
Does renting month-to-month to a tenant count as a short-term rental?
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