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COVID-19 and short term rental restrictions and violations

harmariadmin March 30, 2020June 8, 2020 Endgame, Enforce, Short Term Rentals

updated 6.08.2020 Due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many states and provinces like California have issued Executive Orders to return home and shelter in place. Florida just issued a…

New State Laws and Proposed Bills about Short-Term Rentals: Pre-emptions, a Repeal of Preemption, and a Change in Classification

harmariadmin February 20, 2020November 16, 2021 Endgame, Enforce, Establish, Legislation, Lodging Tax collection, Short Term Rentals

Whether or not your municipality can create and enforce its own laws regulating short term rentals (STRs) depends on what your state allows. While local governments (Cities and Counties) want…

Feed at night, sleep in the day… Vampire Short Term Rental Listings are elusive for compliance

harmariadmin November 5, 2019November 17, 2019 Endgame, Enforce, Short Term Rentals

Hallowe’en is over, but vampires still abound! I’m not talking about the sharp-toothed ones that thirst for blood, but vampire short term rental listings that wake at night to accept…

Beware of Short Term Rental Address Mailing Lists

harmariadmin September 26, 2019September 26, 2019 Endgame, Enforce, Lodging Tax collection, Short Term Rentals, Tax Discovery

Harmari recently learned about vendors in the industry offering “lists” of possible short term rental addresses. These lists usually come in at a lower cost-per-lead than our system. This may…

Five Types of Tax Leakage with Short Term Rentals

harmariadmin July 30, 2019August 23, 2019 Lodging Tax collection, Short Term Rentals, Tax Discovery

Many tax collection jurisdictions at the city, county, state and federal level have arranged voluntary collection agreements with Airbnb and/or HomeAway, the two biggest short term rental platforms in the…

Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Short Term Rental monitoring

harmariadmin July 9, 2019July 9, 2019 Endgame, Enforce, Establish, Short Term Rentals

For local governments, regulating short term rentals by themselves are a challenge since they don’t have the tools to effectively enforce these regulations. The process of identifying a non-compliant short…

7 Steps of Short Term Rental Enforcement: The Heavy-Lifting Phase

harmariadmin May 16, 2019October 8, 2020 Enforce, Lodging Tax collection, Short Term Rentals

Once City staff become aware that unregulated short-term rentals (STRs) are having a negative effect on the quality of life of their municipalities, they might want to immediately start contacting…

Announcing Harmari STR version 10.8

harmariadmin February 4, 2019March 16, 2019 New Release

Harmari is pleased to announce a new release of Harmari STR version 10.8. The features include the following: Manual tax entry and cash payment page for City Import file for…

Harmari announces Short Term Rental 10.3 Release

harmariadmin February 5, 2018March 16, 2019 New Release No Comments

Harmari proudly announces the latest update to the Short Term Rental web portal version 10.3. The following new features have been included in this release Dynamic interactive heat map providing…

Beware the zombie short term rental listings!

harmariadmin October 31, 2017March 16, 2019 Endgame, Enforce, Short Term Rentals No Comments

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…

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