—Short-term rental rules · New York City
New York City sharply restricted short-term rentals in 2023 through a registration regime that effectively ended most unhosted short stays. If you host here, eligibility comes first.
Last reviewed against current municipal sources on 2026-05-20.
01The New York City context
In 2023 New York City began enforcing a registration requirement that, in practice, sharply restricted short-term rentals. The rules center on the host being present during the stay and on strict limits on the number of guests — short, unhosted whole- apartment rentals are largely no longer viable.
For a New York City host, the first question is not which rules to post but whether a given stay is permitted at all. This is a market where eligibility homework matters more than anything on this page.
Local rules change — confirm current requirements with your city before you list. This page is a market-context summary and a house-rules starting point, not a legal source or a substitute for New York City's own New York guidance.
02The house-rules angle
For the hosted, registered stays that NYC does allow, house rules still matter — quiet hours in dense buildings, building and co-op rules, and guest-count limits are the obvious ones. A signed acknowledgment is a clean way to show a guest agreed to the building’s expectations and the legal guest limit.
In a building shared with permanent residents, a noise complaint or an over-the-limit guest count can become a problem with your board as much as with a platform. A dated, signed record that the guest agreed to the building rules and the legal limit is a small thing that protects a fragile arrangement.
These are starting points to adapt — not legal advice, and not specific to any one New York ordinance. Edit the wording and any amounts to your property and what your platform and city allow.
03Put the rules on the file
A house-rules block in your listing is disclosure — it proves the rule existed. It does not prove the guest who booked your New York City place ever saw that specific rule or agreed to it. What sits in the file as evidence after an incident, and what shows good-faith compliance in a regulated market, is acknowledgment: the guest confirming each rule and each fee individually, with a timestamp, before check-in.
PreArrive turns the tuned rules above into a packet the guest signs in about ninety seconds. They tap each rule and each fee to acknowledge it, draw a signature, and you get a PDF certificate — disclosure and acknowledgment in one file, with a two-event audit trail and a content hash. It is evidence, not a verdict: it does not litigate a dispute or decide a code question for you, but it puts a traceable record behind every stay.
Build a packet from these rules once, send it on every reservation. Free covers one property. No credit card.
04Verify with the source
This page is a plainspoken summary. The municipal sources below are where the actual rules live. If something here disagrees with the source, the source is right — let us know and we'll re-review.
Page reviewed 2026-05-20.
05Other regulated markets
The same disclosure-versus-acknowledgment gap shows up across every active STR market. Each city below has a plain-language local summary and a house-rules angle tuned to that market.
Want all of them in one place? See PreArrive for regulated-market hosts.
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