Lauderhill Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Lauderhill and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that you can, and you don't need a variance or a special exception to do it. Lauderhill's own Land Development Regulations list short-term vacation rentals as a permitted principal use in every land use designation that allows residential uses, which is about as clean a green light as a South Florida city hands out.

The catch is the paperwork, and there's a lot of it. Lauderhill sits inside Broward County, so a legal listing here answers to three governments at once: the city, the county and the State of Florida. Before your first guest checks in you'll be holding a city certificate of use, a city local business tax receipt, a state vacation rental license from DBPR, a Broward County business tax receipt, and a completed registration packet filed with the city every single year. Miss that last one and the citation is $500. Operate with no certificate of use at all and it's $1,000 a day.

So let's walk through what it takes to do this properly: the ordinance that governs it, every fee in the stack, the three taxes riding on your nightly rate, how hard the city actually pushes, and who to call when something stalls. Every figure below comes from Lauderhill's own code, Broward County's tax pages or Florida statute, checked in July 2026, and where a number is still moving I've said so. Since the arithmetic matters more than the rules do once you're compliant, run the property through BNBCalc before you spend anything.

What are short term rental (Airbnb, VRBO) regulations in Lauderhill,Florida?

Two documents do almost all the work here, and separating them clears up most of the confusion people arrive with.

The bottom layer is state law, and it's the reason Lauderhill can't simply say no. 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 that preemption has been on the books since 2011. Cities that had duration or frequency rules on or before June 1, 2011 got to keep them, but Lauderhill's current framework is far newer than that, so it has to live inside the lane the state left open. Registration, inspections, occupancy, parking, noise, life safety: all of that stays local. Minimum-night rules and outright bans do not.

The top layer is Land Development Regulations Sec. 3.1.17, Short-term vacation rentals, most recently amended by Ordinance No. 23O-06-113 on June 26, 2023. The City Commission's stated reasoning is worth reading, because it explains the tone of everything that follows: certain transitory uses of residential property, it says, "tend to affect the residential character of the community and are injurious to the health of the community." So the city didn't set out to court this business. It set out to monitor it.

What counts as a short-term vacation rental is defined over in Schedule A of the Land Development Regulations. The unit has to be a condominium or cooperative unit, or an individually or collectively owned one- to four-family dwelling. It then has to be advertised or rented to guests more than three times in a calendar year, for periods of less than thirty days or one calendar month, whichever is less, or held out to the public as a place regularly rented to guests. Timeshares are carved out. Note the "advertised" part, because it does real work later when the city goes looking for unregistered operators.

One wrinkle to keep in mind, since it's the kind of thing that moves. Lauderhill still counts "thirty days or one calendar month, whichever is less," which is the old state test. Florida rewrote that test in Chapter 2025-113, SB 606, effective July 1, 2025, so the state now measures thirty consecutive days and has dropped the calendar-month leg. The city hasn't amended Schedule A since. The gap rarely bites, since anything you'd list nightly falls under both tests, though a 29-night booking straddling a month boundary is where the two could diverge.

The last piece of the answer is the friendliest one. Subsection E makes short-term vacation rentals a permitted principal use in all land use designations that allow for residential uses, provided you comply with the section. There's no overlay district, no cap on how many the city will license, and no separate hearing. Rooming houses are the one flat prohibition on the residential side, and the city's own rental application says so in bold. Everything else is a question of doing the paperwork.

Starting a Short Term Rental Business in Lauderhill

Being permitted everywhere residential is what makes Lauderhill worth a look in the first place. What it costs to get there is what thins the field.

There isn't one license fee, there's a stack of them landing in three different cash registers. Here's the whole ladder as the codes set it as of July 2026:

Charge	Amount	Paid to
Certificate of use processing fee (non-refundable)	$57.88	City of Lauderhill
Local business tax, short-term rental class	$268.02	City of Lauderhill
Local business tax, per bed	$18.77	City of Lauderhill
Business development fee	$27.56	City of Lauderhill
Minimum housing inspection, 1 to 10 units	$187.43 per unit	City of Lauderhill
Fire safety inspection, residential	$109.97 or $5.85 per unit	Lauderhill Fire Prevention Bureau
Single resort or group vacation rental dwelling	$22.50 flat	Broward County
Vacation rental dwelling license, one unit	$50 application plus $170 for a full year	Florida DBPR
Hospitality Education Program fee	$10	Florida DBPR

The city numbers come straight from Sec. 12-53 of the Code of Ordinances, where line (25) reads "Short-term rental property, vacation home, Air BnB, VRBO, etc. .....$268.02" and line (25a) adds $18.77 per bed. That section was last amended by Ordinance No. 24O-02-109 on March 25, 2024, recently enough that plenty of older write-ups still describe Lauderhill as having no short-term rental class at all. It has one, and it's named after the platforms. The $27.56 business development fee rides on every receipt the city issues, Broward's flat $22.50 sits in the county's local business tax fee schedule under Ordinance 88-35, and the state fees come from the DBPR lodging fee schedule.

Work it through on a three-bedroom house sleeping six and the year-one bill reads: $57.88 to process the certificate of use, $268.02 for the business tax class, $112.62 for six beds at $18.77 each, $27.56 for the development fee, $187.43 for the housing inspection, $109.97 for the fire inspection, $22.50 to the county, and $230 to DBPR. That's roughly $1,016 before your first booking, and most of it recurs annually.

One number is missing from that total, and I couldn't find it published anywhere. Sec. 3.1.17.D requires a separate annual registration packet, and its fee is set "by resolution adopted by the City Commission" from time to time. No resolution or amount appears on any city page I could open, and the packet isn't in the online forms index either, so call the Business Tax Division for the figure before you file.

Two smaller traps are worth catching early. The city's rental certificate of use application still prints a $55.13 processing fee and $17.87 per unit, both of which the codified schedule has since overtaken, so trust the code and expect the higher amount at the counter. And under Sec. 12-17, everything expires on September 30 no matter when it was issued. Apply between October 1 and March 31 and you pay the full year, between April 1 and June 30 you pay half, and between July 1 and September 30 you pay a quarter. Timing your application to the fiscal year is one of the few free savings on offer here.

Short Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Lauderhill

That thousand dollars buys three separate approvals rather than one, and the order they arrive in is not negotiable.

The state license comes first, because the city asks to see it. Sec. 3.1.17.C requires proof of licensure with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation as a transient public lodging establishment to be submitted with the city application. Under Fla. Stat. § 509.241 every public lodging establishment has to hold that license, and a Lauderhill house rented nightly is a Vacation Rental Dwelling in DBPR's classification. Start it early. Nothing at City Hall moves until it exists.

Then comes the city pair: a certificate of use and a local business tax receipt, both under Chapter 12 with the fees set in Sec. 12-53. A minimum housing inspection is required, exactly as it is for any other rental in Lauderhill, and the certificate of use itself designates the maximum occupancy for the property. Your advertised sleeps number isn't yours to set, then: a city representative counts the sleeping rooms on site and the certificate records the result. Sec. 12-16 also blocks issuance outright unless the use complies with the land development regulations, the building code and the fire code, so an open permit problem stops the whole application rather than delaying it.

Third is the registration packet, and this is the requirement most owners don't see coming. In addition to the certificate of use and the business tax receipt, every individual short-term vacation rental location has to complete a registration packet annually, on the city's form, with one packet per rental. The form and the fee are due before October 1 each year. Fail to complete it on time and Sec. 3.1.17.D authorizes a citation carrying a $500 civil fine, and it can also trigger denial, revocation, suspension or modification of the certificate of use and business tax receipt. Operating with no certificate of use and no business tax receipt at all is priced separately, at $1,000 per day.

Renewals carry their own escalator. Under Sec. 12-33, a receipt unpaid by September 30 picks up a 10 percent penalty on October 1, 15 percent on November 1, 20 percent on December 1 and 25 percent on January 1. Running a business without first obtaining a receipt owes 25 percent on top of the tax, and letting it sit 150 days past the initial notice adds $250 plus court costs and attorney fees. Once you're past December 1 the city can record a lien in the Official Records of Broward County against the property, the person or both. That lien ranks equal with city and county ad valorem taxes, ahead of nearly every other claim on the house.

The renewal calendar is tight, so do check it against your diary. The county's renewal window runs July 1 to September 30, the city mails its notices in July, and the registration packet is due before October 1. Three deadlines, one month, and the city says plainly that never receiving a notice doesn't excuse a late payment.

Required Documents for Lauderhill Short Term Rentals

Since that processing fee is non-refundable and the packet gets returned rather than fixed for you, assemble everything in one pass rather than finding the gaps one rejection at a time.

The annual registration packet under Sec. 3.1.17.D is the long one. It asks for:

• The legal description of the property, meaning address, lot, block and subdivision name.
• Name, address, email and telephone number for the owner of record, as reflected at the Broward County Property Appraiser.
• Name, address, email and a 24-hour, seven-day emergency number for the designated responsible party.
• A written acknowledgement of the parking, noise, trash and trespass rules, plus confirmation that you have no pending code violations or unsatisfied liens on any property you own in the city.
• Proof of current ownership.
• Proof of registration with the Florida Department of Revenue for sales tax and with Broward County for tourist development tax.
• Proof of DBPR licensure as a transient public lodging establishment.
• A copy of your Broward County business tax receipt, and of your current Broward County Tax Collector short-term rental account.
• A copy of the standard rental or lease agreement you use for the property.
• A detailed exterior site plot plan and a detailed interior floor plan.
• An authorization letter, if somebody is filing on the owner's behalf.

The certificate of use application asks for less, though it must be notarized, and the city charges $10 for notary services at the counter. Bring photo identification, plus articles of incorporation or a fictitious name certificate if an entity holds the property. The form also asks how many non-related adults occupy each unit and how many rental units there are, which is what drives the fire inspection fee. Where Chapter 12 requires a background investigation, you reimburse the city for it before the certificate issues, and you reimburse it even if the investigation ends in a denial.

Two more things people forget. Sec. 12-22 wants the current certificate of use posted conspicuously at the property and produced on demand by any city official, and failing to produce it is itself citable. And if the property sells, you're the one who has to notify the Business Tax Division in writing with proof of the change, or the unpaid balance follows you.

Lauderhill Short Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through all of that and are able to start hosting, 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 Records, Taxes and Treasury
Combined on a Lauderhill stay	13%	Two agencies, two returns

The state layer is Florida's sales tax on transient rentals, which taxes living quarters rented for six months or less at the general 6 percent rate plus the county surtax. Broward's surtax is 1 percent, effective January 1, 2019 and running through December 31, 2048, per the Department of Revenue's discretionary sales surtax table. Worth knowing before you open that form: the version DOR currently serves is still headed "Calendar Year 2025." No 2026 revision has been posted, and the surtax itself doesn't expire until 2048, so that's the version to work from.

The county layer is the Broward County tourist development tax at 6 percent, sometimes called the bed tax. Broward administers it itself rather than routing it through Tallahassee, which is why registration, returns and audits all run through the county's Tourist Development Tax Section. It catches any accommodation rented for six months or less, and a longer stay only escapes it with a bona fide written lease behind it. Returns are due the first of the month following collection and go delinquent if they aren't postmarked by the 20th.

Late filing is expensive in a way that surprises people, so don't forget the calendar even in a slow month. Broward assesses a minimum $50 penalty for a late return with no collection allowance, then 10 percent of the tax due if you're no more than 30 days late and another 10 percent for each additional 30-day period, capped at 50 percent of the tax. Failing to pay at all is a county ordinance violation punishable by a fine up to $500 or up to 60 days, and under Fla. Stat. § 125.0104(8)(a) an operator who refuses to charge and collect the tax is personally liable for it and guilty of a first-degree misdemeanor.

The practical relief is that your platform probably handles most of this. Airbnb's Florida occupancy tax page says it collects and remits the 6 percent Florida transient rental tax, the county discretionary sales surtax and the Broward County tourist development tax at 6 percent, on reservations of 182 nights or shorter. Vrbo's arrangement in Broward I could not confirm on a primary source this pass, so be aware that platform collection is a per-platform, per-county fact rather than a default. Either way the city still wants proof of your own Department of Revenue registration and Broward tourist development tax account, so both have to exist even when somebody else files the return. Platform collection varies enough across the state that the Collier County guide and the Osceola County guide are useful comparisons if you own in more than one market.

Florida charges no personal income tax, so there's no state return on the profit. The federal one still applies, and our Florida statewide guide covers the layers that sit above every city in the state.

Lauderhill-wide Short Term Rental Rules

Tax is the one part of this a platform can carry for you. The house rules are not, and Sec. 3.1.17 is unusually specific about them.

Start with occupancy, since it caps your revenue more directly than anything else in the ordinance. Overnight guests are limited to two persons per sleeping room, and an on-site city inspection sets the room count rather than your floor plan. Daytime gatherings can reach one and a half times that overnight maximum, and never above twenty people regardless, though owner-occupied rentals escape the gathering cap while the owner is present. Up to four children under thirteen don't count toward either limit.

The rest of the operating rules read like a list of the complaints the city was getting:

• Parking is on-site only. Every vehicle associated with the rental must sit in a driveway or a designated parking area on the property.
• A 2A:10B:C dry chemical fire extinguisher on every floor of every unit, installed and maintained to NFPA 10, on a wall in an open common area or in a marked enclosure.
• Pools, spas and hot tubs must meet the Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act in Chapter 515, Florida Statutes, and the Florida Building Code.
• An interior notice in the city's prescribed form, carrying the responsible party's name and number, the occupancy, parking, life-safety, noise and litter rules, trash days, the nearest hospital, and a statement that guests must evacuate on any state or local evacuation order.
• An exterior notice with the responsible party's name and telephone number posted on the front of the property, visible to the public.

That designated responsible party is the requirement with real teeth. There's exactly one per rental, they must be at least eighteen, they must answer the posted number 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and if a problem can't be settled over the phone they have to be physically at the property within two hours. You can hire a management company into the role, which is how most out-of-town owners solve it, but somebody has to be on the hook.

Noise runs through Sec. 14-22 of the Code of Ordinances rather than the rental section. The ceiling in a residential district is 55 dBA at all times, with no relaxation for daytime. Amplified sound that's plainly audible across your property line is prohibited between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. on weekdays, and between 10:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m. on weekends and holidays. A poolside speaker at midnight is a citation waiting to happen.

The ordinance contradicts itself on trash, so it's worth knowing which way to err. Subsection I says containers can't go curbside before 7:00 p.m. the day before pickup and must come in before 7:00 p.m. on pickup day. The acknowledgment you sign in the registration packet says 6:00 p.m. and midnight. Take the tighter reading of each, out after 7:00 p.m. and in before 7:00 p.m., and neither version catches you.

Underneath all of it sits Schedule M, the minimum housing quality standards, which every rental in Lauderhill has to pass and which the city inspects annually for rental properties. It covers the ordinary things: working outlets, sound floors and ceilings, lockable windows and doors, smoke detectors on each level to NFPA 74, hot water, an unblocked fire exit. One clause catches absentee owners, though. Anyone with two or more rental units in Lauderhill must keep a legal rental agent or operator in the city.

Does Lauderhill strictly enforce STR rules? Is Lauderhill Airbnb friendly?

Rules like those would be advisory if nobody checked, so the answer splits in two. On permission, Lauderhill is one of the friendlier cities in Broward County: no ban, no cap, no minimum stay, permitted in every residential land use. On process, it is strict, and the enforcement tools are broader than the fine schedule alone suggests.

The advertising rule is where most unregistered operators get caught. Under Sec. 3.1.17.D, advertising a one- to four-family dwelling for periods under thirty days is direct evidence of offering a vacation rental, admissible in any enforcement proceeding, and it raises a rebuttable presumption that the property was used in violation of the chapter. A live listing is close to a confession, then, and the city never has to catch a guest arriving.

The fines escalate quickly from there. Operating without a certificate of use and business tax receipt is $1,000 per day, and each day is a separate violation, though occupancy breaches are treated as a single violation per rental period. A uniform code citation for a land development regulation violation runs $100, then $250, then $500 for first, second and third offenses, with fifteen days to pay before it goes to county court, where a conviction can carry up to $500 per violation. Take it to the code enforcement special master and the ceiling rises to $250 per day for a first violation, $500 per day for a repeat, and $5,000 for a violation found irreparable, plus $85 in prosecution costs. Those orders record as liens ranking alongside ad valorem taxes.

The quietest risk in the whole ordinance is the revocation clause. A certificate of use can be denied, revoked or suspended on the adjudication of a violation by the responsible party, the property owner or a transient occupant. Your guest's conduct can cost you your certificate, and a suspended certificate means no transient occupancy at all for the duration. Keep in mind that this is why the two-hour response requirement exists, and why it's the single hardest term to satisfy from out of state.

Complaint handling is one place the odds tilt your way. Since July 1, 2021, Florida law bars code inspectors from opening an investigation on an anonymous complaint, and Lauderhill's Code Enforcement page says neighbors must now give a name and address first, the exception being an imminent threat to health or safety. That raises the bar on nuisance reporting, yet a neighbor willing to sign gets a real case opened, and the annual housing inspection arrives whether or not anyone complains.

So is Lauderhill Airbnb friendly? For an owner who lives locally or pays a manager properly, yes, and permitted-use status beats the parts of South Florida that fight this business in court. For an owner hundreds of miles away hoping to run lean, the 24/7 responsible party, the annual inspection and the October deadline add up to a job rather than a formality.

How to Start a Short Term Rental Business in Lauderhill

Given that the penalties land hardest on people who start renting before the file is complete, the order below is worth following even when a step looks skippable.

1. Check the numbers before the paperwork. Roughly $1,016 in year-one fees plus the unpublished registration fee, 13 percent in tax on every stay, and a manager's fee if you don't live nearby. Run it through BNBCalc first, because that's the step you can still walk away from cheaply.
2. Apply for the DBPR vacation rental license. A Vacation Rental Dwelling license for a single unit costs $50 to apply plus $170 for a full year and $10 for the Hospitality Education Program. The city won't process your application without proof of it.
3. Register with the Florida Department of Revenue for sales tax, and open a Broward County tourist development tax account. Both accounts have to exist even if Airbnb ends up filing the returns.
4. Get the Broward County local business tax receipt, $22.50 flat for a single resort dwelling or group vacation rental dwelling. Remember that the county window runs July 1 to September 30.
5. Clear anything outstanding on every property you own in Lauderhill. The registration packet makes you certify there are no pending code violations and no unsatisfied liens, so a problem at an unrelated address blocks this one.
6. File the certificate of use application with the Business Tax Division, notarized, with photo identification and entity documents, and schedule the minimum housing and fire inspections at submission. Expect the inspector to count your sleeping rooms.
7. Submit the annual registration packet with the site plot plan, interior floor plan, lease template, ownership proof, tax registrations and the 24/7 responsible party details. Do check the fee amount with the city first, since it isn't published.
8. Set up the property before you list. Extinguisher on each floor, pool barrier to Chapter 515, interior notice, exterior sign with the responsible party's name and number, on-site parking, and a trash routine that respects the 7:00 p.m. rule.
9. Put September 30 in your calendar. The certificate of use, the city business tax receipt and the county receipt all expire that day, the registration packet is due before October 1, and the penalty ladder starts the next morning at 10 percent.

Who to contact in Lauderhill about Short Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Whichever of those steps stalls, five offices handle almost all of it between them, and knowing which one owns your question saves an irritating amount of time on hold.

Licensing, certificates of use and the registration packet

The Business Tax Division inside the Finance Department issues the certificate of use and the local business tax receipt, and it's the office to ask about the annual registration fee.

• Address: Lauderhill City Hall, 5581 W. Oakland Park Blvd, Lauderhill, FL 33313
• Phone: 954-730-3030, or 954-739-0100 for the Business Tax Office
• Email: [email protected], or [email protected] for renewals
• Business tax year: October 1 to September 30, with renewal notices mailed in July

Zoning, land use and the ordinance itself

The Planning & Zoning Division reviews certificate of use applications for land use compliance and drafts amendments to the code and the land development regulations.

• Office: Ken Thurston Inverrary Community Center, 3300 Inverrary Blvd, Lauderhill, FL 33319
• Phone: 954-730-3050
• Hours: Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., closed Friday
• Mailing address: Attention Planning & Zoning Division, 5581 W Oakland Park Blvd, Lauderhill, FL 33313

Complaints, violations and inspections

Code Enforcement runs the annual rental inspections and issues the citations.

• Report a violation: 954-739-0100, option 4
• In person: Lauderhill Business Center, 1st floor of City Hall, 5581 W. Oakland Park Blvd
• Hours: Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., closed Friday
• Note: complaints are no longer accepted anonymously, so a complainant has to give their name and address

Fire and life safety

The Lauderhill Fire Prevention Bureau handles the fire safety inspection attached to your application, and it inspects multifamily residential occupancies annually. Duplexes and single-family homes are excluded from that annual sweep.

• Phone: 954-730-2950

County and state

Broward County collects the tourist development tax and the county business tax, and DBPR issues the vacation rental license.

• Broward County Tourist Development Tax Section: 115 S. Andrews Avenue, Room 121, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301, 954-357-8455, [email protected]
• Broward County Local Business Tax Section: Governmental Center, Room A-100, 115 S. Andrews Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301, 954-357-4829, [email protected]
• DBPR Division of Hotels and Restaurants: 850-487-1395, and the division's licensing pages carry the application and the searchable database of licensed vacation rentals

What do Airbnb hosts in Lauderhill on Reddit and Bigger Pockets think about local regulations?

Those offices are where most host frustration gets aimed, so it's fair to ask what owners here say about the experience. Let me be straight about the limits of my answer, though. Reddit blocks automated access from the tooling behind this guide, and I found no Lauderhill-specific BiggerPockets thread I could open and verify, so nothing below is a quotation from either. It's my read of the pattern the documents predict, and you should weigh it as that rather than as a survey.

Three things about this ordinance tend to generate the same conversation wherever it turns up in Broward County.

• The permitted-use status gets underrated. Owners comparing South Florida cities spend their energy on the places that fight short-term rentals, then assume the whole region is hostile. Lauderhill isn't, and a permitted principal use in every residential land use designation is exactly what an investor should be hunting for.
• The two-hour response rule is the real filter. Out-of-state owners underestimate what a 24-hour contact who can be on site within two hours costs. It's a local co-host, a management company, or a rule you're quietly breaking until the night something goes wrong.
• The registration packet catches people mid-season. It's annual, it's due before October 1, and it's separate from the business tax renewal that hits the same month. An owner who files the tax and forgets the packet is exposed to a $500 citation while believing they're current.

Whether the economics survive all that is a demand question rather than a rulebook one. Lauderhill sits inland rather than on the beach, so its demand profile looks nothing like the coastal cities and the numbers are what have to answer for that. Start with the Florida market data on revenue and occupancy, then set it against the Seminole County guide if you're weighing South Florida against Central Florida.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Lauderhill in 2026?

Yes. Lauderhill's Land Development Regulations make short-term vacation rentals a permitted principal use in every land use designation that allows residential uses, with no cap on the number of licenses and no minimum-night requirement. You do need a city certificate of use, a city local business tax receipt, a Florida DBPR vacation rental license, a Broward County business tax receipt, and an annual registration packet filed with the city before October 1. Operating without the city approvals costs $1,000 per day.

How much does it cost to license a short-term rental in Lauderhill?

Budget around $1,016 in year one for a three-bedroom sleeping six. That covers a $57.88 certificate of use processing fee, the $268.02 short-term rental business tax class, $18.77 per bed, a $27.56 business development fee, a $187.43 minimum housing inspection, a $109.97 fire inspection, $22.50 for the Broward County business tax receipt, and $230 in DBPR license and education fees. The separate annual city registration fee is set by City Commission resolution and is not published, so confirm it with the Business Tax Division.

What taxes do you pay on a Lauderhill short-term rental?

Three, totaling 13 percent of the rent. The State of Florida charges a 6 percent transient rental tax, Broward County adds a 1 percent discretionary sales surtax collected by the Department of Revenue, and Broward County charges a 6 percent tourist development tax administered by its own Records, Taxes and Treasury Division. Airbnb states that it collects and remits all three on reservations of 182 nights or shorter. Florida has no personal income tax, so there's no state return on the profit.

How many guests can stay in a Lauderhill vacation rental?

Two people per sleeping room overnight, with the number of sleeping rooms confirmed by an on-site city inspection and recorded on the certificate of use. Daytime gatherings can reach one and a half times that overnight maximum but never exceed twenty people, and that gathering cap doesn't apply to owner-occupied rentals while the owner is present. Up to four children under thirteen are exempt from both counts.

What happens if you rent in Lauderhill without registering?

Operating without a certificate of use and a local business tax receipt carries a fine of $1,000 per day, with each day treated as a separate violation. Failing to complete the annual registration packet on time draws a $500 citation and can trigger revocation or suspension of your certificate. Advertising a one- to four-family home for stays under thirty days is direct evidence of a vacation rental and creates a rebuttable presumption of violation, so a live listing is usually all the city needs.

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