Kansas City, Missouri proposes short-term rental regulations

[Matt R.]

All,

The city of Kansas City, Missouri is proposing new short-term rental regulations.  Here is the city blog post about the ordinance.  I *think* you're meant to provide feedback by replying to the blog post; comments are open from 30 days from 11 February to about 11 March 2016.  The text of the proposed ordinance is available.  Essentially, for multi-family the owner of the property is allowed to do short-term rentals of the unit they live in, but the tenants aren't allowed to rent out their units. There is a restriction that the owner has to have lived in their unit for 60 days before short-term renting it, and it can only be short-term rented for 90 or 91 days a year.  This local TV news story also claims that there's a $600 permit needed.

I don't have any rental property in KC, MO, but I know it's popular among out-of-state landlords, so I figured I'd pass this on.

Matt R.

[Andrew Syrios]

I heard about this, luckily for us we don't do short term rentals. But to me, it sounds like either nanny state nonsense or a handout to the big motel companies who don't like the competition from AirBnb and the like.