Orlando's short-term rental ordinance requires the registered host to be physically present overnight when guests stay in residential-zone home-share rentals, distinguishing legal home-shares from illegal whole-home Airbnbs.
Under Orlando's home-share program, residential-zone STRs are limited to room rentals within the operator's owner-occupied dwelling, and the host must be on premises during guest stays. Hosts cannot leave guests alone in the home overnight. The rule exists because Florida §509.032 lets Orlando keep its pre-2011 framework, which was designed before whole-home platform rentals existed. Inspectors verify host presence via utility records, mail delivery, and homestead exemption status. Tourist-commercial and mixed-use districts surrounding theme parks are exempt from the host-presence rule.
Renting an Orlando residential home-share without on-site host presence draws code citations, registration revocation, and platform delisting requests under the city's repeat-violator framework.
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