No on-site host is required, but Osceola County (like most Florida jurisdictions) expects a responsible party or 24-hour local contact reachable to handle complaints. Florida bars counties from banning unhosted rentals, so whole-home, host-absent rentals are legal when licensed.
FS 509.032(7)(b) prevents Osceola County from prohibiting vacation rentals, so it cannot mandate that the owner or a host stay overnight. What the county reasonably requires is a designated responsible party or agent — a local contact able to respond to noise, parking, and safety issues, usually within a set time. This is a management condition, not an occupancy mandate. Whole-home resort dwellings without a live-in host are the norm in the Osceola tourism corridor.
Failing to keep a reachable responsible party on file, or not responding to disturbances, can support code-enforcement action and count against the rental license at renewal.
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