Salt Lake City distinguishes short-term rentals from longer home-share arrangements at thirty days, with stays beyond that threshold treated as standard residential leases under Utah's URLTA rather than transient lodging.
SLC Title 21A and Utah Code 57-22 (URLTA) draw the line between transient and residential occupancy at thirty consecutive days. A guest staying twenty-nine nights is a short-term renter subject to STR zoning rules, business licensing, and transient room tax. A guest staying thirty-one nights becomes a tenant with full URLTA rights including written notice for termination, habitability protections, and security-deposit rules. Hosts running extended home-share stays must shift their paperwork from a short-term booking to a written lease and stop collecting transient room tax once the stay crosses the threshold.
Mischaracterizing a 30-plus-day stay as a short-term rental to avoid landlord-tenant duties exposes the host to URLTA claims, refund of improperly collected transient room tax, and zoning enforcement.
Salt Lake City, UT
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