—Short-term rental rules · Portland
Portland’s short-term rental program is built around the Accessory Short-Term Rental (ASTR) permit — Type A for host-present listings (the dwelling or an ADU on the lot) and Type B for unhosted multi-unit setups. Each carries its own neighborhood notification step, so your neighbors know the listing exists before the first guest does.
Last reviewed against current municipal sources on 2026-05-20.
01The Portland context
The Type A versus Type B distinction is the headline of Portland regulation. Type A is the most common path — a single ASTR in a home where the host actually lives, capped at a small number of bedrooms. Type B opens up to two unhosted units in the same building, with a notice-to-neighbors step plus a Land Use review that takes weeks to clear.
Once your ASTR permit issues, Portland’s Bureau of Development Services lists it publicly and neighbors can flag issues that come up. In practice that means parking complaints, late-night sound, and trash-day misses are the items that show up most in code-enforcement files — and a guest who has signed specific rules on those points materially shortens the response loop.
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 Portland's own Oregon guidance.
02The house-rules angle
A Portland host should be clear about which permit type the listing is, the implied host presence, and the neighborhood expectations that come with it. Acknowledgment narrows the "didn’t know" defense from a noise complaint.
Portland’s residential-density mix means parking choreography and trash-day rules carry weight. Concrete acknowledgment of those gets you cleaner stays.
These are starting points to adapt — not legal advice, and not specific to any one Oregon 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 Portland 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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