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

SRC 700.006(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.

Both hosted and non-hosted stays share the separate 29-consecutive-day maximum length of stay for any individual guest under SRC 700.006(f). To track compliance with the 95-day non-hosted cap, SRC 30.1005(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.