North Carolina bars local governments from forcing short-term-rental owners to register their property. After Schroeder v. City of Wilmington (2022), a registry, lottery or cap is preempted by G.S. 160D-1207(c). Cumberland County and Fayetteville therefore operate no mandatory STR registration program.
The N.C. Court of Appeals struck down Wilmington's STR registration and lottery scheme as preempted by G.S. 160D-1207(c). The statute lets a city register a rental property only in narrow exceptions (a bad-actor property with multiple verified housing-code violations or one flagged in the top 10% for crime/disorder). For ordinary hosts, no proactive registration, rental permit or rental-inspection enrollment may be required. Note this bars a registry, not zoning: Fayetteville may still limit where transient rentals occur and enforce its noise, parking and nuisance codes. You must still collect and remit the county room-occupancy tax and state sales tax, which is a tax-filing duty, not a zoning registration.
Because registration cannot be compelled, there is no registration penalty for typical hosts. Enforcement runs instead through zoning, nuisance and tax-collection rules.
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