Beware the zombie short term rental listings!
Beware the zombies! In light of Halloween today, many of our clients are not aware that short term rental listings can be in a state of inactivity while on the…
Read MoreYou may be over-paying for your next short term rental booking – watch out for drop-hosters!
Be careful on your next booking on AirBnB, VRBO, Flipkey or other popular short term rental website. Why? Because now we have drop-hosters. Don’t believe me? Take a look at…
Read MoreCity of La Quinta selects Harmari for Short Term Rental Compliance
Harmari is pleased to announce that the City of La Quinta has contracted with LTAS Technologies Inc. to provide identification, monitoring, outreach and compliance services for their Vacation LQ program…
Read MoreToronto Short Term Rental Map
[last updated Oct. 1, 2020] A recent inventory count of Short Term Rentals (STRs) in Toronto has yielded astonishing results. Toronto has 21,000 active and intermittent short term rental listings,…
Read MoreTax at source, then backfill compliance
any municipalities have partnered with at least one of the Short Term Rental (STR) websites to ensure that STR hosts are paying their fair share of lodging taxes in their…
Read MoreIdentify Illegal Short Term Rental Properties
Many reasons exist why a short term vacation rental (STR) property may be considered illegal. From a municipal government standpoint, it could be against ordinance to operate a short term…
Read MoreSwitch over to our Short Term Rental Compliance service and save
Hundreds of municipalities are working on identifying and monitoring short term vacation rentals (STRs) to make sure they are in compliance with ordinances, properly licensed and permitted, and collecting lodging…
Read More5 Tips for issuing Short Term Rental Permit Numbers
When municipalities seek to regulate short term rentals, often something that is overlooked is the permitting system. In fact the permit number has significant value to Code Compliance departments that…
Read MoreSolve for X – The Short Term Rental Tax Gap
Harmari recently released a 20-minute training video on the technical challenges associated with detecting short term rentals (STRs, also known as STVRs) that are non-registered or under-reporting for lodging tax…
Read MoreNew device may solve short term rental noise issues
David Krauss, the founder of NoiseAware, has developed technology that detects party house activity, excessive noise and alerts the short term rental (STR) operator before the neighbours complain and the…
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