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

Rowlett's short-term rental ordinance (Ord. No. 007-23, Article XI, Division 4) contains no annual cap on the number of nights or days a property may be rented as an STR. The only time-based threshold in the rules is definitional: Sec. 10-401 defines a short-term rental as a residential dwelling rented wholly or partly for a fee for periods of less than 30 consecutive days. A booking of 30 or more consecutive days falls outside the STR definition and is treated as a longer-term rental under the other divisions of the Rental Housing article. Once an owner holds a valid annual permit, remits the quarterly hotel occupancy tax, and complies with the occupancy, parking, noise, safety, and local-contact standards, the ordinance does not limit how many separate guest stays or total rented nights are allowed in a permit year (the permit runs to January 31 each year). What does function as a practical limiter is enforcement: Sec. 10-427(f)(9) provides that a third repeat violation over any consecutive 12 months results in revocation of the permit, so problem properties can effectively lose the ability to operate. Owners should still verify that no private HOA rule or deed restriction imposes its own rental-frequency or minimum-stay limit, since those are enforced separately from the city ordinance.