Weston Short-Term Rental Regulation: A Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Weston and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that you can, and Florida law stops the city from banning short-term rentals outright or telling you how many times a year you're allowed to book one. Weston has run a written vacation rental scheme since 2018, mind you, and it reads like a set of operating rules rather than a wall.

The catch sits in the property itself. Weston is a master-planned city on the western edge of Broward County, and its zoning code shuts vacation rentals out of every multi-family district, which takes condominiums and cooperatives off the table. For a qualifying house, year one runs $874 in city fees, plus a state licence, two inspections that repeat every September, and an agent who has to be at your door within an hour of a phone call. Your homeowners association can still say no on top of that.

So let's walk through what it actually takes to do this properly: which properties qualify, what the city wants in 2026, what each step costs, the three taxes riding on every booking, how Weston responds when a neighbour complains, and who to call when something stalls. Every figure below comes from Weston's, Broward County's or Florida's own documents, and where a page wouldn't open I've said so rather than papered over it. Before you buy furniture, run the property through BNBCalc first.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Weston, Florida?

Running those numbers early matters because two separate tests decide whether the property is eligible at all, and a house can fail either one.

The first test is frequency. Ordinance No. 2018-17, adopted on second reading December 3, 2018, rewrote § 1.01 and most of Chapter 81 along with it.

Weston's code now defines a Vacation Rental as any dwelling unit in a condominium or cooperative, or any single-family through four-family house, that meets either of two conditions. It's "rented in whole or in part to guests more than three times in a calendar year for periods of less than 30 days or one calendar month, whichever is less". Or it's "advertised or held out to the public as a place regularly rented to guests."

Read that second condition carefully, because it catches more people than the first one does. A house rented twice a year still lands inside the definition once it's advertised as a place regularly rented to guests, and a live Airbnb listing sitting up all year is exactly that.

So the three-booking threshold isn't a safe harbour.

Once a property meets the definition, § 81.01 makes it unlawful for anyone to allow occupancy as a Vacation Rental, or to offer such rental services within the City, without registering and holding a Certificate of Use. There's no informal tier below that, and no grace period for a first listing.

The second test is zoning, and this is where most of Weston's housing stock falls out. The City's own Vacation Rental Registration page says that under Chapter 124.15 of the Land Development Regulations, vacation rentals "are prohibited in Multi-Family Districts including any condominium, cooperative or multi-family residential property with more than four dwelling units."

That chapter itself isn't reachable to an automated reader, since American Legal's code library returns a 403 and nobody has archived it, so I'm citing the City's statement of its own position rather than the section text.

A genuine legal tension sits under that prohibition. Fla. Stat. § 509.032(7)(b) says a local law "may not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals," and it grandfathers only ordinances adopted on or before June 1, 2011. Weston's chapter dates to 2018.

I found no court ruling or attorney general opinion reconciling the two, so I won't tell you how it resolves. The City's position is what you'll meet at the permitting counter, though, and a condo owner who wants to test it is doing so at their own cost.

That same preemption hands you two real things. Weston can't impose a minimum night stay, and it can't cap how many times a year you rent, and going through Chapter 81 line by line, neither restriction appears anywhere in it. Our Florida statewide regulation guide covers how that 2011 preemption came about and what it does and doesn't reach.

One more layer sits above all of this and answers to nobody at City Hall. Fla. Stat. § 720.306(1)(h) lets a homeowners association "amend its governing documents to prohibit or regulate rental agreements for a term of less than 6 months". It may also "prohibit the rental of a parcel for more than three times in a calendar year, and such amendments shall apply to all parcel owners."

Note that last clause. Most rental amendments bind only owners who buy after they pass, whereas short-term rental restrictions bind everybody, including you, retroactively. In a city built almost entirely out of association-governed villages, that statute matters more in Weston than the zoning map does.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Weston

So the association is the first phone call, not the last. Weston deleted the old requirement that you hand the City a written HOA statement confirming the use was consistent with association rules, since Ordinance 2018-17 struck § 81.02(G) outright.

That cuts both ways. Nobody at the counter will stop you, and nobody at the counter will warn you either, so make sure you've read your own covenants before you spend $874 finding out.

Assuming the covenants are clean and the house isn't in a multi-family district, what's left is a conventional single-family rental operation with three ongoing commitments attached.

• A local agent, permanently. Section 81.03 requires the owner to act as, or retain at all times, a natural person as Vacation Rental Agent who resides within 30 miles of the property. Notice served on that agent counts as notice to you, and any change of agent has to reach the City Manager within 15 days.
• A one-hour response radius. Under § 81.05(C)(6), the agent must be reachable with authority to solve problems 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and be physically present at the property within one hour of notification. That is the requirement that quietly decides whether you can run this from out of state, and the answer is that you can't do it alone.
• A guest register kept on site. Section 81.05(C)(7) requires a register of all transient occupants, kept at the property and open to inspection by City personnel at any time.

The economics follow from that. Weston is a bedroom community rather than a beach town, so the demand you're underwriting is family visits, business travel into the Sawgrass corridor, and overflow from the coast. Add a local agent's retainer to your model before you decide the spread works, because the 30-mile rule turns what most spreadsheets treat as an optional co-host into a fixed cost.

One door the ordinance leaves genuinely open, though. Nothing in Chapter 81 requires you to live in the property, and nothing limits how many properties one owner may register. Each one needs its own registration, inspections and Certificate of Use, since § 81.08(B) makes both non-transferable, but the scheme isn't owner-occupancy-based the way New York's is.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Weston

Each of those registrations carries the same price tag, and Weston publishes it on the same page as the process itself.

Item	Fee
Vacation Rental Registration Fee (initial)	$350.00
Certificate of Use, Vacation Rental (initial)	$524.00
Renewal, if renewed before September 30	$224.00

That's $874.00 in year one, per the City's published vacation rental fee schedule as of July 2026, before the state licence, the Business Tax Receipt or your insurance. Renewals drop to $224.00, so the cost curve flattens quickly after the first year.

Now, the date on that renewal line is not a rolling anniversary, and it's the most expensive detail in the chapter to miss. Section 81.08(C) says every registration and Certificate of Use is valid for no more than one year and that all of them expire on September 30, whatever month you were approved in. Register in July and you get roughly ten weeks before the first renewal falls due.

Worse, failing to renew before that date forces a new application and a new Certificate of Use, which means paying $874 again instead of $224. Do check the date the moment your certificate issues.

Two inspections stand between the application and the certificate. Section 81.06(A) conditions issuance on an approved report from the City Fire Rescue Department verifying compliance for transient lodging use, plus a passed Certificate of Use inspection covering Chapter 81 itself.

Then § 81.08(A) applies both again at every renewal, checking the dwelling against Chapter 81, the Minimum Housing Standards of Broward County, the Fire Codes and the Florida Building Code. Violations must be corrected and re-inspected within 30 calendar days, and missing that window means denial of an initial application or suspension until it's fixed.

The physical standards those inspections check are specific enough to budget for. Section 81.06(B)(1) sets four of them:

• A pool, spa or hot tub has to meet the Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act in Chapter 515 of the Florida Statutes.
• Interconnected, hard-wired smoke and carbon monoxide alarms go in wherever such a system isn't already in place, to the smoke and carbon monoxide sections of the Florida Building Code (Residential).
• A portable multi-purpose dry chemical fire extinguisher approved by City Fire Rescue sits on each floor, maintained per NFPA 10 and visibly marked.
• A legible building evacuation map of at least 8.5 by 11 inches goes next to the interior door of every bedroom.

Retrofitting hard-wired interconnected alarms into an older house is the item that most often costs real money, so price it before you apply.

Above the city sits the state licence, and you'll need it in hand before Weston will process you. Florida requires a vacation rental licence under Fla. Stat. § 509.241, classified under § 509.242 as either Vacation Rental Dwelling or Vacation Rental Condo, and issued by the Division of Hotels and Restaurants.

Its lodging fee schedule puts a new single-unit licence at a $50 application fee plus $170 for a full year, or $90 for a half year, with a $10 Hospitality Education Program fee on top. Licences renew annually on a staggered schedule, and an address change has to be reported within 30 days.

The city Business Tax Receipt comes last rather than first, which trips people up. Section 81.06(A)(8) puts it after the Certificate of Use issues, so get the certificate, then get the receipt.

Weston's Fiscal Year 2026 fee schedule, covering October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, runs from $95.70 for an individual professional entity through $191.43 for a limited business to $287.15 for general business. It never names vacation rentals as their own line, though, and I won't guess which category yours lands in. Ask Permitting Services when you apply, and note that these fees are also due before September 30.

Required Documents for Weston Short-Term Rentals

Since the whole package moves through one online submission, missing a document doesn't slow the file down so much as bounce it, and § 81.02 says an incomplete registration application is rejected outright. The City lists what it wants on the same registration page:

• Proof of ownership, with the name, address and phone number of every person or entity holding an ownership interest.
• A federal employer tax ID where the property is corporate-owned, per § 81.02(E).
• A property description: gross square footage, and the number of rooms, bedrooms, kitchens and on-site parking spaces attributable to the rental use. Those parking spaces feed straight into your occupancy cap, so count them properly.
• Your current, active Department of Business and Professional Regulation licence as a transient public lodging establishment, or proof of exemption.
• Vacation Rental Agent contact details, including a 24-hour number answered at all times, from an agent residing within 30 miles.
• Evidence of liability insurance covering use of the property as a rental.
• A copy of your rental agreement carrying the minimum lessee information set out in § 81.06(B)(5).
• Individually submitted Vacation Rental Affidavits from each owner, authorised agent and property manager, each acknowledging a personal duty to keep the property compliant.
• An approved City Fire Rescue inspection report for residential transient lodging use.
• The names and contact details of every listing service you'll advertise on.

That last one doesn't expire with the application. Section 81.06(B)(7) requires the owner or agent to keep the City's list of listing services current as it changes, so adding Vrbo eighteen months after you launched on Airbnb is a filing, not a free action.

Everything goes in through Weston's e-Permit portal at aca-prod.accela.com/weston, and the City publishes a screen-by-screen walkthrough of the vacation rental application that runs from login to submission. Follow-up requests arrive by email at the address you supply, and inspections are booked through the same portal.

Weston publishes no processing time for these applications, so don't build a launch date around a guess.

Weston Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through the paperwork and are able to start taking bookings, there's still tax to deal with, and in Broward County it stacks three deep.

Charge	Rate	Collected by
Florida transient rental tax	6%	Florida Department of Revenue
Broward County discretionary sales surtax	1%	Florida Department of Revenue
Broward County Tourist Development Tax	6%	Broward County Tourist Development Tax Section
Total on a stay of six months or less	13%	State and county

The first 6% is the state's. Florida's Department of Revenue guidance on transient rentals taxes rental charges for living quarters of six months or less at the general 6% state rate. Whoever rents the accommodation, or an agent collecting rent for the owner, registers with the Department, files returns and remits even in months with no income.

The 1% surtax is Broward's, administered by the state alongside the sales tax. The Department's DR-15DSS surtax table lists Broward County at 1%. That Calendar Year 2025 edition was still the current one on the forms library when I checked in 2026, so treat the rate as live and confirm it against a newer table if one appears.

One detail here saves confusion later. The Department's discretionary sales surtax page confirms the usual $5,000 cap "does not apply to transactions such as charges for prepaid calling arrangements, sales of admissions, transient rentals, or sales of services."

So the surtax rides the whole booking.

The last 6% is the county's own, and it's the one you'll deal with by hand. Broward County's Tourist Development Tax applies at 6 percent of the total rent charged to anyone renting living quarters, single-family homes included, for six months or less.

You register with the Tourist Development Tax Section, get assigned a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual filing frequency, then file returns due on the first of the month following collection, which turn delinquent if they aren't postmarked by the 20th. Longer stays can be exempt, though only where a bona fide written long-term lease supports them.

Being late on that return gets expensive faster than most hosts expect. Under Fla. Stat. § 212.12 there's no collection allowance and a minimum $50 penalty, then 10 percent of the tax due if you're not more than 30 days late and another 10 percent per additional 30-day period, capped at 50 percent.

Beyond the penalties, non-payment is a Broward County ordinance violation punishable by a fine of up to $500 or 60 days' imprisonment. The Division can also place a tax warrant lien on the property, issue a tax execution and seek a writ of garnishment.

Worst of all, § 125.0104(8)(a) makes it a first-degree misdemeanour, carrying up to a year, to fail or refuse to charge and collect the tax at all. Keep in mind that the phone line the county uses for questions doubles as an anonymous tip line.

How much of that you touch depends on your platform. Airbnb's occupancy tax coverage list shows it collecting and remitting the 6% Florida Transient Rental Tax and the 0.5% to 1.5% discretionary sales surtax. It also collects Broward County's own 6% Tourist Development Tax on reservations of 182 nights and shorter, so all three layers are covered on that channel.

Vrbo's position I couldn't verify, because its account-level lodging tax article redirected to an error page every time I tried it. Check your own payout settings rather than assuming parity, and remember that direct bookings are all yours regardless.

One small mercy at the end of it. Florida levies no personal income tax, so the profit goes on your federal return and stops there.

Broward isn't the only Florida county where a platform handles the county layer for you, and the arrangements differ enough to matter when you're comparing markets. Our Collier County guide and Osceola County guide cover two counties running their tourist tax on quite different terms.

Weston Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Tax is the part you can automate. The operating rules in § 81.06(B) are the part that decides whether you keep the registration, and they're written tightly enough that a well-meaning host can breach them without noticing.

Maximum occupancy is the lowest of three separate ceilings, not the highest:

• Two persons per bedroom.
• Three transient occupants per off-street parking space legally available to the property, with the space count set by § 124.54 of the Land Development Regulations.
• No more than one Family, as § 1.01 defines it, per dwelling unit.

So a four-bedroom house with two legal spaces sleeps six, not eight. Parking is doing the work. Remember that whatever figure you land on has to be printed in your advertising, posted inside the house and shown on the certificate by the door.

Guest hours quietly extend that math. Under § 81.06(B)(3), anyone on the property after 10:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, or after 11:00 p.m. Friday or Saturday, counts as an overnight occupant for calculating maximum occupancy. Separately, § 81.06(B)(6)(c) permits no more than 3 unregistered guests at any time, and none at all after those same hours. A family of six at capacity plus three evening visitors is therefore fine at nine o'clock and a violation at eleven.

Noise carries its own rules on top of the citywide ones. No sound amplification system and no televisions may be used outside any roofed portion of the primary structure, and amplified sound or television audio must not be audible at any property line after those same hours.

Guests also have to be told in writing, before occupancy, that loud and raucous noise under § 52.50 or prohibited noise under § 52.52 is subject to code enforcement "including but not limited to fines up to $500 per violation."

Then there's the standing list of things the property must carry or do:

• A posted certificate. The Certificate of Use goes on the back of or next to the main entrance door, showing the agent's name, address and phone number plus the maximum occupancy.
• Posted lessee information, which under § 81.06(B)(5) means the maximum occupancy, the noise warning above, a sketch of the available off-street parking, trash days and handling rules, any portion of the property the owner occupies, a list of prohibited uses, the nearest hospital, and the local non-emergency police number.
• No party or event use. The property may not be used or advertised for any commercial or non-residential purpose, and the ordinance names party, event and entertainment venue use specifically.
• Bins in and out inside a day. Containers must be sized for the permitted maximum occupancy, may not go to the curb more than 24 hours before pickup, and must come back within 24 hours after.
• No rental to a registered offender. Section 81.05(C)(8) bars renting to anyone on the Florida sexual offender and predator database, consistent with § 52.45 of the City Code.
• Yards kept clear of garbage and litter, and all vehicles parked in compliance with the City Code.

Selling the house resets everything. Section 81.07 requires a new owner to file a fresh registration application, obtain all required inspections and obtain a new Certificate of Use before any vacation rental use, and § 81.08(B) confirms neither document transfers. Be aware that a buyer purchasing a "registered vacation rental" is buying a house, not a permission.

Does Weston Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Those rules would be theatre without a mechanism behind them, and Weston's mechanism is unusual in a quiet way: the annual inspection does most of the enforcing.

Most cities enforce short-term rental rules reactively. A neighbour complains, an officer visits, a citation follows, and an operator willing to absorb fines carries on. Weston does that too, with code enforcement contracted to Calvin, Giordano & Associates and policing by the Broward Sheriff's Office.

What sits on top of it is a calendar.

Every registration expires on September 30, every renewal requires a passed inspection against Chapter 81 and the county and state codes behind it, and no path to a renewed certificate skips that step. An operator who quietly lets the extinguishers lapse gets found once a year whether or not anyone complains.

The fines alone would mislead you. A violation of Chapter 81 draws up to $250 per violation, heard by the City's Special Magistrate under Chapter 31.

That's small money against a peak-season week.

The suspension ladder in § 81.08(E)(2) is the actual deterrent. For multiple violations of maximum occupancy, parking, noise, failure to advertise the maximum occupancy, agent failure, or any other requirement of the chapter, within any continuous 48-month period:

• A second violation suspends the registration and Certificate of Use for 30 calendar days.
• A third violation suspends it for 12 calendar months.
• Each additional violation adds another 12 calendar months.

No transient occupancy is permitted during a suspension, which begins at the earlier of the end of the current lease period or 30 calendar days after notice, and operating anyway draws a daily fine up to the maximum Florida law allows for repeat violations. A twelve-month suspension on a house carrying a mortgage is not a fine, it's a year of your business.

The revocation power is broader than it looks, too. Section 81.08(D) lets the City Manager deny, revoke or suspend on the adjudication of a violation of Chapter 81, any City ordinance, or state law. It counts violations by the Vacation Rental Agent, the Owner, a Transient Occupant or a guest attributable to the property.

Your guest's noise citation is your compliance record. That's exactly why the ordinance leans so hard on written notice to guests and on an agent who can be there in an hour.

How often any of this gets used, I can't tell you. Weston publishes no register of licensed vacation rentals, no count of active registrations and no enforcement statistics I could find, so anyone quoting you a number for how many legal short-term rentals operate here is estimating.

What the ordinance text supports is a simple read. Weston decided to permit the use, price it properly and inspect it every year.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Weston

Given how much of that hinges on things you can't undo cheaply, the order below is worth following as written. The early steps are the ones that tell you whether to bother with the later ones.

1. Check your HOA documents before anything else. Weston no longer asks the City for an association letter, and § 720.306(1)(h) lets an association's short-term rental restrictions bind every owner regardless of when they bought. A prohibition here ends the project, and it costs nothing to find out.
2. Confirm the zoning. Single-family through four-family is the eligible band, and Multi-Family Districts are out.
3. Apply for the state licence first. Weston wants a current, active Department of Business and Professional Regulation licence inside the application package, so start the $50 application plus $170 annual licence early rather than in parallel.
4. Line up your Vacation Rental Agent. A natural person, resident within 30 miles, contactable 24 hours a day, able to reach the property within an hour. Get that commitment in writing before you file.
5. Bring the house up to the life-safety standard. Interconnected hard-wired smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, an approved extinguisher on every floor, pool barriers to Chapter 515, and an evacuation map by each bedroom door.
6. Book the Fire Rescue inspection and gather the rest: proof of ownership, property description with parking counts, liability insurance, the rental agreement carrying the required lessee information, and affidavits from every owner, agent and manager.
7. File on the e-Permit portal and pay $350. Watch the email address you supplied, since further requests arrive there and a stalled file is usually a missed message.
8. Pass the Certificate of Use inspection and pay $524, then get the Business Tax Receipt afterwards and ask Permitting Services which category applies to you.
9. Register for tax on both sides. The Florida Department of Revenue for the 6% state tax and 1% surtax, and Broward County's Tourist Development Tax Section for the 6% county tax, since your remittance obligations don't disappear on direct bookings.
10. Post everything on day one: certificate by the door, evacuation maps in the bedrooms, lessee information sheet inside, maximum occupancy in every advertisement.
11. Diarise September 30. Renew at $224 before it, and don't forget that missing it forces a whole new application at $874.

Who to Contact in Weston about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

That last step is the one people ask about most, and the office that answers it is the same one that answers almost everything else on this list.

Registration, zoning and the application itself

Weston Permitting Services administers vacation rental registration and is the number printed on the City's own vacation rental page.

• Phone: 954-385-0500
• Email: [email protected]
• Address: Administrative Services Center, 17250 Royal Palm Boulevard, Weston, FL 33326
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Apply: the e-Permit portal

Weston contracts its Planning and Zoning work to Calvin, Giordano & Associates at 1800 Eller Drive, Suite 600, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316, on 954-921-7781, Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., per the City's contact directory. The same firm holds the code enforcement contract, which is useful to know if a complaint ever lands on your property.

City Hall and the Business Tax Receipt

• Address: 17200 Royal Palm Boulevard, Weston, FL 33326
• Phone: 954-385-2000, fax 954-385-2010
• Business Tax Receipt email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Friday 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Fire inspections

Fire service in Weston is provided by the Broward Sheriff's Office Department of Fire Rescue, and the inspection report your application needs comes from here.

• Station 81: 17350 Royal Palm Boulevard, Weston, FL 33326
• Administration: 954-389-2090
• Fire Marshal's Bureau: 954-831-8210
• Administrative hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Noise, parties and police complaints

• Broward Sheriff's Office Police Services Center: 17300 Royal Palm Boulevard, Weston, FL 33326
• Non-emergency dispatch: 954-764-4357, staffed 24 hours a day
• Weston district office: 954-389-2010 during lobby hours
• Lobby hours: Monday to Friday 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., weekends 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

County tourist development tax

The 6% county tax is administered from Fort Lauderdale, not from Weston.

• Broward County Records, Taxes and Treasury Division, Tourist Development Tax Section: 115 S. Andrews Avenue, Room 121, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
• Phone: 954-357-8455, fax 954-357-6524
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., per the Division's own page
• File online: browardtourist.county-taxes.com

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Weston on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those contacts get you compliant. How the people already doing this in Weston feel about it is another matter, so the rest of this section is my read of the recurring themes rather than a survey. Reddit blocks automated access and its platform terms don't permit the commercial use this would represent, and I couldn't open a BiggerPockets thread specific to Weston, so nothing below is offered as a quotation from either.

• The HOA, not the City, is the real gatekeeper. That matches the law. Weston removed the association letter from its application in 2018, yet § 720.306(1)(h) still lets an association ban rentals under six months and bind every owner, so a clean city file and a hostile covenant is a common, painful combination here.
• The zoning prohibition surprises condo owners repeatedly. Florida's preemption gets summarised online as "cities can't ban short-term rentals", which holds for frequency and duration and doesn't hold for Weston's multi-family districts. Owners reading the headline version arrive expecting a form and find a closed door.
• Nobody argues the fees are the problem. At $874 in year one and $224 to renew, Weston sits well below what a comparable coastal city charges, and the friction is procedural rather than financial: inspections, the agent, the September deadline.
• The one-hour rule separates the serious from the casual. An owner living out of state can comply, but only by paying somebody local to stand ready around the clock, which is the cost that decides whether a single listing pencils out.

Take that fee comparison seriously when you're choosing between Florida cities, because the rules aren't the only thing that varies. Our Orange County guide covers a very different regime an hour up the turnpike, and the Florida market is where the state's revenue and occupancy picture sits if you want the numbers before you commit.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you run an Airbnb in Weston, Florida in 2026?

Yes, in the right property. Weston permits vacation rentals in single-family, two-family, three-family and four-family homes, but its zoning code prohibits them in Multi-Family Districts, including any condominium, cooperative or multi-family property with more than four dwelling units. A qualifying property must register under Chapter 81 of the City Code, pass a Fire Rescue inspection and a Certificate of Use inspection, hold a Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation licence, and appoint an agent living within 30 miles.

How much does a Weston vacation rental registration cost?

The City of Weston charges $350.00 for the vacation rental registration and $524.00 for the vacation rental Certificate of Use, which is $874.00 in the first year. Renewal costs $224.00 if paid before September 30. On top of that sit a Florida state licence at $50 application plus $170 for a full year and a $10 Hospitality Education Program fee, a city Business Tax Receipt, liability insurance, and the cost of meeting the life-safety standards.

What taxes apply to a short-term rental in Weston?

Three layers apply to stays of six months or less, totalling 13%. Florida charges a 6% transient rental tax, Broward County adds a 1% discretionary sales surtax that the state administers, and Broward County's own Tourist Development Tax adds 6% remitted to the county's Tourist Development Tax Section. Airbnb collects and remits all three on reservations of 182 nights and shorter. Florida charges no personal income tax on the profit.

How many people can stay in a Weston vacation rental?

Whichever of three limits is lowest. Weston caps occupancy at two persons per bedroom, at three transient occupants per off-street parking space legally available to the property, and at one Family per dwelling unit. Parking is often the binding constraint, so a four-bedroom house with two legal spaces sleeps six rather than eight. Anyone still on the property after 10:00 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, or 11:00 p.m. Friday or Saturday, counts toward that total.

What happens if you rent a Weston property without registering it?

Operating an unregistered vacation rental breaches § 81.01 of the Weston City Code and draws a fine of up to $250 per violation before the City's Special Magistrate. Suspension is heavier. A second violation inside any 48-month period suspends the registration for 30 days, a third for 12 months, and each one after adds another 12.

An annual deadline is the quietest rule in any rental ordinance. Nothing about it feels urgent until the year it lapses. Whichever city you buy in, find that date first.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.