Mashantucket, Connecticut Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Mashantucket, Connecticut and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, unfortunately, this is one of the few addresses in the country where the answer comes back no from two separate governments at once, and I'd rather say that in the opening line than let you read to the bottom hoping for a loophole.

Mashantucket isn't a town with its own mayor and its own zoning board. It's a census-designated place in the northeast corner of the Town of Ledyard, in New London County, and most of it is the Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Indian Reservation, land the United States holds in trust for the Tribe. Which rulebook applies to you therefore depends on which side of the reservation line your property sits on, and both books land in the same place. On the reservation, the Tribe's own Land Assignment Law hands residential land to enrolled Tribal Members only, and voids any attempt to hold it through a company. Everywhere else in Ledyard, the town's zoning regulations put short-term rentals on the prohibited list and set a floor of 31 days on any residential rental.

So let's walk through what that means for a property owner in 2026: which government owns your address, what each one bans and why, the narrow bed and breakfast route the town does still leave open, the tax layers that would apply if you ever cleared it, how hard both sides push, and who to call when you get stuck. Every figure below comes from the Tribe's published laws, Ledyard's current zoning regulations, or Connecticut's statutes and revenue department, all checked in July 2026. And since this address won't support a nightly-rate business, run it against markets that will through BNBCalc before you commit money to it.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Mashantucket

Because everything turns on which government owns your address, that's the question to settle before any other one, and it's an unusual thing to have to ask about a house.

Start with the reservation, since that's what most of Mashantucket is. The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation describes itself as exercising "sovereignty, self-determination and full authority over the 1635-acre Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Indian Reservation", and its relationship with Connecticut as a government-to-government one. That isn't marketing language, because development inside those 1,635 acres runs through the Tribe's own Land Use Commission rather than Ledyard's planning office. When the Tribe presented to a Connecticut legislative working group in September 2023, it put the annual cost of the services it funds on trust land at $25 million, police and fire and public works and utilities included, along with a "Land Use Commission for building permits and certificates of occupancy."

Now, the reason there's no short-term rental business on that land isn't a rental rule at all. It's a property rule. Title 27 of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Laws, the Land Assignment Law, grants residential land to Eligible Tribal Members by Assignment, and that grant runs to "residential purposes only," which is the phrase doing most of the work here. To qualify, a Tribal Member has to be enrolled, at least 18, holding an interest in no more than one tribal home, and financially capable as the Department of Housing judges it. The United States is named in the same law as fee title owner of the reservation for the Tribe's benefit, so there is no deed for an outsider to buy in the first place. An Assignee can pass an Assignment only to another Eligible Tribal Member, by successor designation, through probate, by court order, or as security to an approved loan program lender. And the statute closes the obvious workaround in plain words: any purported Assignment to "a corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, or entity other than a natural person" is "null, void and of no effect."

Then there's an occupancy rule sitting on top of all that. Under the same title, the Tribe may terminate an Assignment for good cause, and good cause includes an Assignee failing to use the Dwelling as their principal place of residence for six or more months in a calendar year, for more than two consecutive years, without written approval from the Department of Housing. So even a Tribal Member with an Assignment can't move out and turn the house into rental inventory without the housing department signing off first.

The Tribe's zoning does the rest of the work, because Title 4 of the MPTN Land Use Regulations sets out everything permitted in the Residential Zone, and the whole list runs to seven items.

• Single-family dwellings, one per lot
• Duplexes on lots fronting Joseph Williams Drive, or wherever Tribal Council designates
• Temporary dwellings and temporary trailers
• Accessory buildings, structures and uses
• In-law apartments
• Home occupations
• Community uses Tribal Council authorizes, such as a community center, park or school

So no lodging use appears anywhere in it, and searching the full body of regulations for "short-term rental," "transient," "lodging" or "bed and breakfast" turns up nothing outside the casino. Instead, hotels live in the Resort Operation Zone, where every permitted activity has to be "in support of and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Enterprise, or otherwise approved by Tribal Council." That's why Mashantucket has a full-scale hotel resort and no vacation rentals: the lodging business here belongs to the Tribe, by design.

Cross the line into the rest of Ledyard and the reasoning changes completely, while the answer doesn't. Section 3.8 of the Town of Ledyard Zoning Regulations, the Prohibited Uses section, says it in two sentences: "Short-term rentals (STRs) are not permitted. The minimum term for the rental of a residential dwelling shall not be less than 31 days." The same section adds that any use not expressly permitted in a district is prohibited, that use variances aren't available, and that a special permit can't be granted for a use the district doesn't list. Chapter 14 repeats the point for the Zoning Board of Appeals, which is barred from granting a variance for a use that isn't otherwise permitted. There's no discretionary door here to knock on.

What makes this worth understanding is how recently it flipped, because the older guidance is still circulating. Ledyard tried the friendly version first, and its own ordinance catalogue still lists Ordinance 300-030, "Short-Term Rental Regulation," with a sunset date of March 3, 2022 as the single document filed under the town's short-term rentals tag. So the zoning amendment log picks the story up from there: application PZ21-14RA, effective February 28, 2022, added a new Section 8.28 for hosted short-term rentals along with the definitions and use-table entries to support it. Eighteen months later, application PZ23-10RA, effective September 21, 2023, deleted that section and moved STRs into the Section 3.8 list of prohibited uses. The regulations have been amended four more times since, most recently on July 16, 2026, and not one of those amendments reopened the question.

Unfortunately for most people reading this, that leaves no nightly-rate business at either address. What's left is a 31-night furnished rental, plus two narrow hosted uses the town still permits with approval. A 31-night rental falls outside the short-term rental definition entirely, so ordinary landlord and tenant law governs it instead. Plenty of southeastern Connecticut towns take a softer line, so the Connecticut statewide guide is the place to see the range, and the Norwich guide covers the nearest New London County market where whole-home hosting is a live option.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Mashantucket, Connecticut

Given that neither government permits the use, neither one issues a short-term rental license either, and that's the honest answer to the question most people arrive with. What both do run is a permitting system for the uses they do allow, so it's worth knowing what those look like before you rule the property out.

On the reservation, Title 14 of the Tribal Laws, the Land Use Law, sets up the Land Use Commission as a single nine-member permitting body covering building code, fire marshal, natural resources, historic preservation, environmental health, planning and zoning, utilities, the Tribal Member community and the gaming enterprise. A Land Use Commission permit comes before any covered project, and as of July 2026 the Land Use Fee runs at $5 per $1,000 of total project cost for residential activities and $10 per $1,000 for commercial ones, with the regulations setting a $50 minimum on anything commercial. An application isn't complete until the fee is paid, mind you, and the Commission can start reviewing an incomplete application but can't take final action on one.

If a use isn't on the permitted list, the route is a variance under Chapter 10 of the zoning regulation, and it's a real hearing rather than a formality. The Commission notifies Assignees in the vicinity, the applicant carries the burden of showing why the variance should be granted, supporters and objectors both get heard, and the Commission has five calendar days afterwards to issue a written decision. Miss the sixty-day window to file the variance application and the underlying land use permit gets denied. Keep in mind who your neighbors would be at that hearing, though. Turning an assigned family home in a small residential community into transient lodging is a hard case to argue in front of the people who live next door to it.

Ledyard's side has two openings that resemble hosting, though both carry a length-of-stay cap that rules out most of what you'd want to do. The first is a Bed and Breakfast under Section 8.6, an accessory use needing Site Plan approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission in the R20, R40 and R60 residential districts, and its conditions are tight. The lot has to be at least three acres, the operation has to be owner-operated and the owner's principal residence with the owner as the applicant, five guest rooms is the ceiling, meals go to guests only with no public dining room or bar, and the maximum stay per guest is 21 days.

Then there's the Country Inn under Section 8.11, which is the larger version of the same idea. That one needs a Special Permit and a public hearing, sits on a minimum of five acres, tops out at 32 overnight guests and 64 dining seats, must be either owner-occupied or run by a full-time resident manager living on site, and has to front an arterial or collector road the Commission has designated. Its cap is also 21 continuous days, so neither route gets you a month-long booking. Hotels are a third category under Section 8.19 with a floor of 80 units, which puts them out of reach in a residential district anyway.

Be aware that these are hosted, resident-owner uses, not a license to run a listing from another state. Neither one lets you leave, and both hand the Commission discretion you have to earn in public.

Required Documents for Mashantucket, Connecticut Short-Term Rentals

Since a hosted approval is the only paperwork worth assembling here, it's worth knowing what each office actually asks for, because the two lists look nothing alike.

The Land Use Commission's application requirements sit in Chapter 11 of the zoning regulation, and they read like a construction submission rather than a rental registration. You'd be supplying a site plan, the gross floor area and the arrangement of internal spaces, materials and colors, architectural drawings, yard areas, topography, drainage and utilities, proximity to adjacent property and to archaeological and environmental features, access for vehicles and emergency responders, and anything else the Commission asks for. Residential applications also go to the Housing Department for a 20-day comment period before the Commission acts. Manufactured homes carry their own certifications on top.

By contrast, Ledyard's list for a hosted use is a Site Plan package, and Appendix B of the regulations spells out the format: a 24 by 36 inch plan drawn at one inch to forty feet, three full-size copies plus eight 11 by 17 reductions, a zoning compliance chart showing how the proposal meets the district's standards, and an approval block for the Commission chairman or secretary. A country inn needs a special permit application on top of that, and it has to arrive with the same site plan.

Do check the fee rule before you file anything with the town, because it's less forgiving than most. Section 13.3 of Ledyard's regulations states that all fees are non-refundable regardless of application withdrawal by the applicant or denial by staff or the Commission. So the eligibility question gets answered first, on the phone, and the cheque goes in second.

And for the one thing you can do without asking anyone, a rental of 31 nights or more, there's no document at all. That's not an oversight. It's exactly where the town drew the line.

Mashantucket, Connecticut Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you're able to get one of those hosted uses approved, or you go the 31-night route instead, there's still tax to sort out, and Mashantucket is the rare place where the answer depends on whose land you're standing on rather than what you're renting.

Connecticut's side is straightforward. Connecticut General Statutes § 12-408(1)(B) replaces the ordinary 6.35% sales tax on lodging with a room occupancy tax, and the Department of Revenue Services states the rates plainly as 15% for hotels, motels, lodging houses and short-term home rentals, and 11% for bed and breakfast establishments. It applies to the first 30 consecutive days of a stay, which is why the 31-night threshold shows up in so many Connecticut rules. Operators charging for occupancy of 30 days or less have to register with DRS, at a $100 fee that's waived if you already hold a sales and use tax permit, then file Form OP-210 electronically through myconneCT by the last day of the month following each period.

The tribal side, though, is separate law with its own collector. Chapter 2 of Title 16 of the Tribal Laws imposes a 15% tribal hotel occupancy tax on the gross receipts from a room in a Hotel on the reservation, collected by the provider of the room and paid to the Tribe's Office of Revenue and Taxation. Read the definition of Hotel in that title carefully, because it's the interesting part: it covers lodging houses, motels, motor inns, bed and breakfast establishments and similar accommodations, but it expressly "shall not include any residential building or Home on the Reservation." The Tribe's own tax code, in other words, assumes reservation homes aren't in the lodging business. The same title charges homeowners on the reservation a Real Estate Home Ownership Tax of $900 a year, payable at $75 a month, and layers a 7.35% food and beverage tax and a 7.35% retail tax on what a visitor spends once they're there.

Charge	Rate	Collected by
Connecticut room occupancy tax, homes and hotels	15%	DRS, or the booking platform
Connecticut room occupancy tax, bed and breakfast	11%	DRS
MPTN hotel occupancy tax, rooms on the reservation	15% of gross receipts	MPTN Office of Revenue and Taxation
MPTN real estate home ownership tax	$900 per year	MPTN Office of Revenue and Taxation
MPTN food and beverage, and retail	7.35% each	The seller
Local town lodging tax	none	not authorized in Connecticut

Notice there's no municipal add-on in that table, because no Connecticut statute currently lets a town layer its own lodging tax on top of the state rate, and Ledyard hasn't tried.

Who hands the money over depends on how the booking arrives. Connecticut General Statutes § 12-408h puts a qualifying booking platform in the seller's shoes and makes it collect the room occupancy tax and pass it to the state on every booking it handles, which takes that liability off the host. Airbnb's Connecticut tax page confirms it collects the 15% state room occupancy tax, or 11% for a bed and breakfast, on the listing price including any cleaning fee for the first 30 nights, and drops the tax entirely on reservations over 90 nights. Take bookings direct or through a channel that doesn't collect, though, and registering and filing with DRS falls back to you.

One last thing on the state rate, and it's the kind of contradiction that trips people up: Connecticut taxes "short-term home rentals" at 15% while Ledyard forbids them. A tax rate existing for a category of business is not permission to run one, and the state has never claimed otherwise.

Connecticut Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

That gap between what the state taxes and what the town allows exists because Connecticut leaves the permission question almost entirely to municipalities, and it made that arrangement explicit fairly recently.

Connecticut General Statutes § 7-148qq, added by Public Act 24-143 and effective October 1, 2024, lets any municipality adopt an ordinance requiring the licensure of short-term rental properties and regulating how they operate, by vote of its legislative body. Before that, whether towns had statutory authority to regulate short-term rentals at all was genuinely unsettled. The statute resolved it in the towns' favor, and it set no ceiling, so nothing in state law limits how far a Ledyard or a Stonington can go. A total prohibition sits comfortably inside that grant.

Nor is there a statewide registry, though House Bill 5536 came close last spring. As drafted, it would've made operators register each property with DRS every year for $100, and it would've let towns add a supplemental tax of up to 2.75% of rent if they chose to. It cleared the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee 36 to 18 on March 30, 2026 and was tabled for the House calendar on April 16, yet it never reached a floor vote before the session adjourned on May 6, 2026, so it isn't law. Watch for a successor in the 2027 session, since a DRS-run registry would change what hosts across the state have to do, but don't plan around a bill that died in committee. The Office of Legislative Research's January 2026 retrospective confirms that § 7-148qq remains the only enacted short-term rental provision of the last three sessions.

Now for the part that matters most if you've been researching this yourself, because the two state-level documents you're most likely to find both describe a Ledyard that no longer exists. The Office of Legislative Research's February 2024 report on municipal regulation of short-term rentals lists Ledyard among twelve towns regulating them, and describes live machinery: inspections on 24 hours' notice, permits the Planning and Zoning Commission could revoke after a public hearing. Those provisions had been deleted five months before that report was published. The Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments' October 2024 survey still marks Ledyard yes on both "allow STRs" and "regulate STRs," yet its own note in the next column reads that the Planning and Zoning Commission rescinded the STR regulations in September 2023. Only the note is right. Watch out for anything built on those two documents, including a fair amount of investment content that names Foxwoods as a demand driver for nearby rentals, because it's describing 2022 rules.

If you're comparing Connecticut markets rather than committing to this one, the Fairfield County guide and the New Haven County guide cover the two ends of the state where whole-home hosting is normal.

Does Mashantucket, Connecticut Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Enforcement is easier to picture once you accept that neither government has to catch you doing anything subtle. A prohibited use with a 31-night floor is visible on the face of a listing calendar, and a house nobody can lawfully sell you is not a thing you can quietly acquire.

On the Ledyard side, Chapter 13 of the zoning regulations names the Zoning Official appointed by the Mayor as the enforcer under Connecticut General Statutes §§ 8-3(e), 8-12 and 8-12a. That official acts as an agent of the Commission, with power to enter and inspect property at reasonable times, and to move to restrain, correct or abate a violation or stop the occupancy outright. The same official is the town's blight officer, so complaints about a party house and complaints about the property itself land on one desk. Section 8-12 sets the fines at $10 to $100 for each day a violation continues, rising to $100 to $250 a day if the violation is wilful, with up to ten days' imprisonment for each day of violation to a thirty-day maximum. Read the next part twice, because it's the expensive one: ignore an order to discontinue for ten days after service and you're exposed to a civil penalty of up to $2,500 payable to the town treasurer, on top of the daily fines. Section 8-12a caps a municipal citation at $150 for each day a violation continues.

The tribal side, meanwhile, carries larger numbers and a shorter route to court. And under the Land Use Law, Commission representatives may enter any property within Mashantucket at reasonable times to inspect, investigate complaints and examine records, while the penalties it sets "shall not exceed $5,000 for each day during which the violation occurs," with a total ceiling of $250,000. The Land Assignment Law adds the remedy that actually bites: the Tribe can terminate an Assignment for good cause after written notice and a cure period of 150 to 180 days, and the Tribal Court holds exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute touching an Assignment or a Dwelling. Losing the house is a different order of consequence from paying a fine.

Then there's the practical layer, which is hard to overstate. Mashantucket is a compact residential community wrapped around a casino resort, with its own tribal police department, its own fire department, and a housing office that already knows who lives in every assigned home. Strangers with luggage don't blend in. I haven't found a single enforcement case against a short-term rental here, and my read is that it's because the property and occupancy rules stop the situation from arising rather than because anyone is looking the other way.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Mashantucket, Connecticut

So if enforcement isn't the obstacle so much as eligibility is, the sequence below is really about finding out quickly whether you have anything to work with, and the early steps are the ones that save you money.

1. Establish which jurisdiction your parcel is in. Trust land inside the reservation and fee land inside Ledyard are governed by different bodies, and a Mashantucket mailing address doesn't settle it. Call the MPTN Land Use Commission and Ledyard's Land Use Department and ask both.
2. If it's reservation land, check the ownership question before anything else. Residential parcels are Assignments held by enrolled Tribal Members, companies can't hold them, and an Assignee has to live there as a principal residence. Unless you're an Eligible Tribal Member with an Assignment, this is where it ends.
3. If it's Ledyard land, read Section 3.8 of the zoning regulations. Short-term rentals are a prohibited use and the minimum residential rental term is 31 days. No variance or special permit can change that.
4. Redraw the plan around 31 nights. A stay of 31 days or more isn't a short-term rental under either the town's rules or the state's tax definition, so it needs no permit and carries no room occupancy tax. From what I can tell, the region's big employers, Foxwoods and the Groton submarine yard among them, keep steady mid-term housing demand going, so do test that against your own address before you count on it.
5. Assess the bed and breakfast route only if you'll live there. Three acres minimum, your principal residence, five guest rooms, 21-day maximum stay, and Site Plan approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission.
6. Assess the country inn route only if the site is bigger. Five acres minimum, an arterial or collector road, 32 overnight guests, a resident owner or resident innkeeper, a Special Permit and a public hearing.
7. Talk to staff before you file. Ledyard's fees are non-refundable whether you withdraw or get denied, so the conversation is free and the application isn't.
8. Sort tax registration once, and only if you're taking direct bookings. Room occupancy registration with DRS costs $100, is waived if you hold a sales and use tax permit, and puts you on monthly OP-210 filings.
9. Price the alternative honestly. Before you spend a year pursuing a hosted approval, compare what the same capital earns in a market where an entire home can legally take nightly bookings, using Connecticut market data as the starting point.

Who to Contact in Mashantucket, Connecticut about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Whichever of those steps stops you, two offices between them answer nearly every question, and calling the wrong one first is the most common way to lose a week.

Reservation land: development, permits and zoning

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Land Use Commission handles permitting, inspections, certificates of completion and variances inside the reservation.

• Administrator: Mike Boland, (860) 396-6740, [email protected]
• Administrative Assistant: Sue Stevens, (860) 396-6740, [email protected]
• Mailing address: MPTN Land Use Commission, c/o Sue Stevens, PO Box 3202, Mashantucket, CT 06338-3202
• Street address: 550 Trolley Line Blvd. (rear of building), Mashantucket, CT 06338-3202
• Online: the Land Use Commission's permitting site

The Commission's own contact page asks that general permitting questions, submittals and formal correspondence go to Sue Stevens rather than to individual commissioners, so start there. Housing and land assignment questions belong to the Tribe's Department of Housing instead, reachable through the tribal government's main line at 860-396-6572 or by post at 2 Matt's Path, PO Box 3060, Mashantucket, CT 06338-3060. The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court, at 110 Pequot Trail, PO Box 3126, Mashantucket, CT 06338-3126, on 860-396-6156, is where Assignment disputes are heard.

Ledyard land: zoning, enforcement and hosted uses

The Town of Ledyard Land Use Department covers planning, zoning, building and enforcement everywhere else in town.

• Address: Land Use, 741 Colonel Ledyard Highway, Ledyard, CT 06339
• Main line: (860) 464-3215
• Office hours: Monday to Thursday, 7:30am to 4:45pm
• Director of Land Use & Planning / Town Planner: Elizabeth Burdick, (860) 464-3215, [email protected]
• Zoning and Wetlands Enforcement Official / Blight Officer: Hannah Gienau, (860) 464-3216, [email protected]
• Building Official: Seumas Quinn, (860) 464-3214, [email protected]
• Online: the Land Use Department page carries the current regulations, forms and staff directory

Note the four-day week. Ledyard Town Hall runs Monday to Thursday and the main number is (860) 464-8740, so a Friday call goes nowhere.

State taxes

Room occupancy tax registration, returns and questions belong to the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services, not to either local government.

• Phone: 860-297-5962, or 800-382-9463 from elsewhere in Connecticut
• TTY/TDD: 860-297-4911
• Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Address: Department of Revenue Services, 450 Columbus Boulevard, Suite 1, Hartford, CT 06103
• File and register: myconneCT, through the room occupancy tax page

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Mashantucket, Connecticut on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Since almost nobody is legally hosting at this address, there isn't much of a host conversation to report, and I'd rather say that than manufacture a consensus. What follows is my read of what's actually published, not a survey.

• I found no host forum discussion specific to Mashantucket or Ledyard. Reddit blocks automated access and its platform terms don't permit the commercial use these guides would require, so I don't quote it, and I couldn't locate a BiggerPockets thread naming Ledyard's prohibition. Treat any claim about local host sentiment here, including this one, as thin.
• The investment content that does surface is out of date, and confidently so. Search "Airbnb near Foxwoods" and you'll find market write-ups and agent pages naming the casino as a demand driver for nearby short-term rentals. Several of them read as though hosted STRs are still permitted in Ledyard, which was true between February 2022 and September 2023 and hasn't been since.
• The state's own documents are part of the problem. As covered above, both the 2024 legislative report and the 2024 regional survey still list Ledyard as a town that regulates rather than one that bans, and those are exactly the sources a careful researcher reaches for first.
• What southeastern Connecticut hosts do discuss is the neighboring towns, where the picture varies a lot from one town line to the next and several have gone back and forth on the question within three years. That volatility is the region's real story, and it's worth watching if you own anywhere nearby.

Something wider sits underneath this one address, though. Where a place has a single dominant landowner and a lodging industry that landowner already operates, the rules will tend to protect that arrangement rather than open it up, and no amount of visitor demand changes that. Demand is the easy thing to see and the least useful thing to plan on. What decides whether a property can host is always the narrower question of who's allowed to own it, and who's allowed to say no.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Mashantucket, Connecticut in 2026?

No. Mashantucket is a census-designated place inside the Town of Ledyard, and most of it is the Mashantucket Pequot reservation. Ledyard's zoning regulations list short-term rentals among prohibited uses and set a 31-day minimum on any residential rental, with no variance available. On reservation land, residential parcels are assignments granted only to enrolled Tribal Members, who must occupy them as a principal residence, and companies cannot hold them at all.

What is the minimum rental period in Ledyard, Connecticut?

Thirty-one days. Section 3.8 of the Town of Ledyard Zoning Regulations states that short-term rentals are not permitted and that the minimum term for the rental of a residential dwelling shall not be less than 31 days. A stay of 31 nights or more also sits outside Connecticut's room occupancy tax, which applies only to the first 30 consecutive days, so the furnished mid-term rental is the one residential model that works here without any permit.

Can you buy a house on the Mashantucket Pequot reservation?

No. Under Title 27 of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Laws, the United States holds fee title to the reservation for the Tribe's benefit, and residential land is granted by Assignment to Eligible Tribal Members for residential purposes only. An Assignee may transfer only to another Eligible Tribal Member, or by successor designation, probate or court order, and any purported assignment to a corporation, LLC or partnership is void.

What tax applies to short-term stays around Mashantucket?

Connecticut charges a room occupancy tax of 15% on homes, hotels, motels and lodging houses, and 11% on bed and breakfast establishments, applied to the first 30 consecutive days. Airbnb collects and remits the state tax on bookings it handles. Separately, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation charges its own 15% hotel occupancy tax on rooms in hotels on the reservation, payable to its Office of Revenue and Taxation. No Connecticut town adds a local lodging tax.

Did Ledyard ever allow short-term rentals?

Briefly. Ledyard adopted a short-term rental ordinance that sunset on March 3, 2022, then added a hosted short-term rental section to its zoning regulations effective February 28, 2022. Zoning amendment PZ23-10RA, effective September 21, 2023, deleted that section and moved short-term rentals into the prohibited uses list, where they remain after four further amendments through July 2026. State reports published in 2024 still describe the older, permissive rules.

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