Nashua does not impose any annual night cap on short-term rentals because the city has no STR ordinance. New Hampshire has no statewide STR night cap either - there is no analog to Bellingham's 95-day cap, San Francisco's 90-day cap, or New York's blanket prohibition on whole-unit transient rentals under 30 days. STR operators in Nashua may operate year-round subject only to the 185-day threshold in RSA 78-A:3 (rentals of 185 or more consecutive days are not subject to the Meals and Rooms Tax and are treated as long-term tenancies under the New Hampshire Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, RSA 540). No primary-residence rule, no whole-unit-only restriction, and no minimum-stay requirement applies under city or state law.
Because Nashua has no STR ordinance, the city imposes no annual night cap, no per-stay minimum or maximum, no primary-residence-only requirement, and no whole-unit-vs-room differentiation. The only operative duration thresholds come from state tax law and state landlord-tenant law. RSA 78-A:3 defines a taxable 'occupancy' as a room provided for fewer than 185 consecutive days; at the 185-day threshold the relationship converts to a long-term tenancy outside the M&R tax base. The Residential Landlord-Tenant Act in RSA Chapter 540 governs tenancies of 30 days or longer (note: NH does not use a strict 30-day STR / long-term cutoff - the 185-day M&R threshold is the operative state line). New Hampshire has no statewide STR night cap, no statewide primary-residence requirement, no statewide minimum-stay requirement, and no statewide whole-unit-only restriction. Bills introduced in the General Court (HB1571 in 2022, HB503 in 2025) have proposed statewide STR frameworks - some seeking to preempt local regulation in favor of host-friendly rules, others seeking to authorize stronger local regulation - but none has been enacted. Nashua's own Chapter 190 Land Use Code does regulate Bed-and-breakfast establishments separately (per the eCode360 index, at Section 190-34 or related), and a B&B requires owner occupancy, but a B&B is a distinct lodging classification and that section does not extend to whole-unit Airbnb / Vrbo rentals. The Nashua Re-Code Land Use Code update launched in February 2024 (target completion 2025) could change this; any future cap would emerge from that recodification.
There is no Nashua STR night-cap violation because no cap exists. Exceeding the 185-day RSA 78-A threshold is not a 'violation' but rather converts the rental into a non-taxable long-term tenancy outside the M&R tax base, requiring different documentation (a written lease, landlord-tenant compliance under RSA 540). Falsely characterizing a stay as 'short-term' on platform listings to maintain M&R tax collection on a stay that exceeds 185 consecutive days is a misrepresentation enforceable by the NH Department of Revenue Administration through audit. From the city side, operating in a residential zone where the underlying Chapter 190 Use Matrix does not permit transient lodging is independently enforceable as a zoning violation regardless of how many nights per year the property is rented. Operating a Bed-and-breakfast classification under Section 190-34 (or related) without owner occupancy is a B&B-specific violation independent of any STR framework.
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