Guilford County requires on-site residency only for the Bed & Breakfast Home use, which must be the owner's or manager's permanent home run as a home occupation. There is no county rule requiring a host to be physically present during every whole-house short-term-rental booking.
A hosted bed-and-breakfast under UDO Sec. 5.9.A is inherently owner-present: it must be the permanent residence of the owner or manager and operate as a home occupation, and meals may be served only to overnight guests. That effectively means someone lives there. For a conventional whole-house short-term rental, the Guilford County UDO does not require the host to be present during each stay. North Carolina counties cannot use registration to force host-presence conditions absent a verified-violation history (NC Gen. Stat. 160D-1207), so any presence expectation for a non-hosted STR comes from the zoning use type you choose, not a standalone occupancy mandate.
Advertising a Bed & Breakfast Home while not residing there is a UDO Sec. 5.9.A violation; whole-house STRs face zoning enforcement only if the underlying lodging use is not permitted in the district.
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