Owners of short-term rentals, such as AirBnB’s and VRBO, will need to register with the city of Pearland in order to operate within its corporate limits.
Pearland City Council on Oct. 25 approved an ordinance that creates a requirement for a registration program to operate short-term rentals within the city and eventually bring a requirement for short-term rental property owners to pay hotel occupancy taxes, or HOT, to Pearland.
Pearland defines a short-term rental as a residential dwelling unit or a bedroom in a residential dwelling unit that is temporarily rented out for compensation for less than 30 consecutive days, according to agenda documents.
“[Once the ordinance passes] we’ll move into formalizing an actual agreement with LodgingRevs, who is our recommended vendor and owns the cloud-based software system,” Pearland Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Tracy Rohrbacher said. “Once that contract is agreed to by both sides, we’ll move into a process, which looks like a 10-week process, to create the workflow that is customized for our needs.”
