Lauderhill, FL Short-Term Rentals: Host Presence Rule (2026)

Under Section 3.1.17.G of the Lauderhill Land Development Regulations, every short-term vacation rental has a maximum overnight occupancy of two persons per sleeping room, confirmed by a city inspection. Separately, the maximum number of people who may gather at or occupy the rental at any one time is capped at one and one-half times that overnight occupancy figure, and in no event may a gathering exceed twenty persons, regardless of how many sleeping rooms the certificate of use lists. The ordinance then carves out a specific exception: this gathering cap does not apply to owner-occupied vacation rentals when the property owner is physically present on the site during the gathering.

In practice that means a resident-owner who is home during a family event or party at their own registered short-term rental is not bound by the 20-person ceiling the way an absentee owner or a professional operator would be. Up to four children under thirteen do not count toward any of these occupancy or gathering limits. The city ties enforcement of Section 3.1.17 to Chapters 7 and 12 of the Code of Ordinances and to the fines set out in Section 7-3, and a violation can lead to denial, suspension, or revocation of the certificate of use required for every registered short-term vacation rental in Lauderhill.