Salem, OR Short-Term Rentals: Night Caps (2026)

006(g) sets Salem's annual booking ceiling for accessory short-term rentals rented without the resident family present. A non-hosted rental, meaning the resident family is away rather than staying on site as host, cannot be rented for more than 95 total days within a calendar year, and only one group of guests may be booked at a time; simultaneous bookings by more than one group are expressly not allowed. Hosted rentals sit under a different rule in the same subsection: there is no annual limit on the number of days a hosted rental may operate, and multiple simultaneous bookings by different guest groups are permitted while the resident family is present as host.

006(f). 1005(d)(2) requires the operator's annual guest registry to record the total number of days the unit was rented as a non-hosted rental across the year, information the Director can inspect on request. Because the cap is calendar-year based, a property that hits 95 non-hosted days by mid-year must either convert remaining bookings to hosted stays, with the family actually present, or stop renting for the balance of the year.