Short-Term Rentals in Minnesota (2026)

Short-term rentals are prohibited in Bloomington. City Code §14.577(b) bans all rentals of less than 30 consecutive…

Saint Paul STR hosts register through the PAULIE online system with proof of ownership, insurance, Workers Comp, and an…

Maple Grove short-term rental applications must be filed 60 days before license expiration and name a local contact if…

Minneapolis requires a rental dwelling license for non-homestead short-term rentals and a short-term rental…

Rochester requires anyone operating a short-term rental, a dwelling rented for under 30 days, to hold a registration…

Renting a home in unincorporated Stearns County as a Vacation/Short Term Rental requires an Interim Use Permit for…

Anoka County has no STR registry. Its cities license rentals: Coon Rapids requires a license for every rental dwelling…

Dakota County does not register short-term rentals. Cities that regulate them require a license application with owner…

Ramsey County MN issues no short-term-rental permit. STRs are licensed by each city. In St. Paul (the county seat)…

Unincorporated St. Louis County requires anyone operating a hotel, lodging house, boarding house or resort, including…

St. Louis County does not set fixed quiet hours by ordinance, but the Planning and Zoning Director can impose quiet…

Dakota County sets no STR-specific noise rule. Cities require operators to keep guests from creating a nuisance and…

Minneapolis requires licensed short-term rentals in small buildings to submit a management plan covering noise, trash…

Saint Paul STRs must follow Chapter 293 noise limits: 65 dBA daytime (7 AM-10 PM) and 55 dBA nighttime (10 PM-7 AM)…

Stearns County requires the owner or emergency contact of a Vacation/Short Term Rental to keep noise within Minnesota…

Short-term rental guests in Wright County follow the same rules as residents: the MPCA property-line standard (MN Rules…

Minnesota state law imposes 6.875% sales tax plus applicable local lodging taxes on all short-term rentals under 30…

Minneapolis STRs collect 6.875 percent MN sales tax, 3 percent Minneapolis lodging tax, 2.5 percent Minneapolis…

Minnesota short-term rentals owe 6.875% state sales tax plus any local lodging tax. Under Minn. Stat. §469.190 a city…

Minnesota sales tax applies to short-term rentals under 30 days. Dakota County has no county-wide lodging tax. Cities…

Short-term rentals in Hennepin County collect 6.875% Minnesota sales tax plus city-specific lodging taxes ranging from…

Maple Grove charges short-term rental operators license, penalty, and reinstatement fees set in the city's fee schedule…

This is the real county-level layer. Minnesota lodging-tax authority runs through Minn. Stat. §469.190 (up to 3%). St…

Rochester charges an annual license fee for short-term rental hosting platforms under Code section 7-10-3, discounted…

Saint Paul charges $45 a year for a short-term rental host license, whether the unit is owner- or non-owner-occupied…

Stays under 30 days owe Minnesota's 6.875% sales tax, and cities may add a local lodging tax of up to 3%. Airbnb and…

St. Louis County no longer fixes a dollar license fee in Ordinance No. 16 itself. A 1974 amendment, effective January…

Woodbury taxes short-term and vacation rental stays at 3 percent under its local lodging tax, City Code Sec. 2-395…

Short-term stays under 30 days in Wright County owe Minnesota's 6.875% state sales tax, plus a local lodging tax of up…

Dakota County has no STR parking rule. Cities set them. Mendota Heights limits overnight vehicles to the number allowed…

Minneapolis requires short-term rental hosts in buildings under 20 units to submit a management plan addressing…

Short-term rental hosts in unincorporated St. Louis County must provide enough on-site parking for their guests. Zoning…

Saint Paul does not impose a minimum parking requirement on short-term rentals; the zoning code instead sets a…

Saint Paul caps STR units per building by property type: 1 unit for single-family homes, up to 4 for owner-occupied…

No county STR occupancy cap exists. Where short-term rentals are barred (Coon Rapids), the only owner-occupied…

Dakota County sets no STR occupancy limit. Cities do. Mendota Heights caps rentals at five bedrooms and limits…

Minneapolis caps every short-term rental at ten occupants regardless of the property's size, a flat limit set in the…

Ramsey County sets no STR occupancy limit. In St. Paul, each unit's maximum occupancy is set by the zoning and building…

Rochester's short-term rental table in section 7-10-2(b) caps how many units in a building may operate as short-term…

Stearns County caps overnight occupancy at a Vacation/Short Term Rental to what Lodging Ordinance 661 allows per…

Saint Paul STR hosts need $300,000 aggregate liability insurance via ACORD certificate. Hosts using only Airbnb, VRBO…

Dakota County has no STR insurance rule. Cities focus on safety: Mendota Heights requires working smoke and carbon…

Minneapolis requires short-term rental hosts to carry liability insurance of at least $300,000, or book exclusively…

Ramsey County sets no STR insurance rule, but St. Paul does: hosts must carry liability insurance of at least $300,000…

Every short-term rental permit holder in unincorporated St. Louis County must carry general liability insurance…

Anoka County sets no annual night cap. Its cities regulate instead, and Coon Rapids does not cap nights but bans any…

Dakota County sets no minimum or maximum night rule. A short-term rental is any stay of 30 consecutive days or less…

No county host-presence rule exists. In Coon Rapids the only residential exemption requires the owner (or qualifying…

Dakota County imposes no host-presence rule. Cities that tie STRs to a primary residence effectively require an…

Homestead short-term rentals in Minneapolis need only a registration, not a full rental license, when the owner lives…

Ramsey County sets no host-presence requirement. St. Paul does not require the host to stay on-site, but every rental…

Saint Paul doesn't require a host to be on-site, but Sec. 379.01 and Sec. 379.07(b) require a 'responsible party' to be…

Anoka County has no primary-residence STR rule. Coon Rapids effectively bars non-owner-occupied short-term rentals…

Dakota County has no rule, but some cities restrict short-term rentals to owner-occupied primary residences. Mendota…

Minneapolis splits short-term rentals into two tracks: a lighter registration for owner-occupied (homestead) units and…

Ramsey County imposes no primary-residence requirement. St. Paul does not limit STRs to a host's primary residence: it…

Saint Paul zoning caps short-term rentals at one unit per lot in RL-H1 districts unless the building is an…

A Minneapolis short-term rental hosting platform that gets its license revoked or denied for violating Chapter 351…

Stearns County gives a Vacation/Short Term Rental owner one written warning per permit cycle when the Department…

Minneapolis requires Airbnb, Vrbo and similar booking platforms to hold a hosting platform license and to pull…

Saint Paul requires every short-term rental platform to hold a platform license, report listing and rental-night data…