Georgetown, TX Short-Term Rentals: Night Caps (2026)

Georgetown's STR ordinance does not limit the number of nights per year a property may be rented short-term. There is no annual night cap, no minimum-stay requirement, and no rule reserving STR use to part of the year. A permitted STR may operate year-round. The only duration-related rule is definitional: a stay must be 30 or fewer consecutive calendar days to be treated as a short-term rental (and, for tax purposes, the local hotel occupancy tax applies to stays of less than 30 days and not less than 12 hours). Stays of 30 consecutive days or longer fall outside the STR definition and the hotel occupancy tax. Because the program is registration-and-tax based rather than usage-capped, the practical obligations on a high-volume operator are the same as on an occasional one: maintain a current permit (valid one year, renewed for $50), keep the 24/7 local contact responsive, follow occupancy/parking/noise rules, and remit the 7% local hotel occupancy tax every month — including reporting zero-revenue months. Operators planning heavy use should still confirm there is no private HOA restriction, which the City does not enforce.