Some Mobile residential overlays cap the number of nights a non-owner-occupied short-term rental can host paying guests each year, balancing tourism revenue with neighborhood stability in historic and primarily residential districts.
Where night caps apply, typical thresholds range from ninety to one hundred eighty rented nights per calendar year for non-owner-occupied units. Owner-occupied home-shares are usually exempt or have higher caps. Hosts must keep booking logs available for inspection, and platforms with city data agreements may transmit night counts directly. Exceeding the cap suspends the permit for the remainder of the year and may reduce next year's allotment. Mardi Gras and college-football weeks count like any other nights.
Exceeding the annual night cap suspends the permit for the rest of the year and counts as a strike toward revocation under the city's progressive enforcement.
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