How to find a rep or local contact for STR?

[Roy H.]

Some cities require you to have a local rep/agent that's within a specific distance to handle any problems arising from your STR.

e.g. "a local rep within 60 minutes of the property"

Yes, you can get a PM to handle that I guess, but that's a big price to pay for something so simple.

Since it's usually to get your guests to calm down because of noise or other problems, I'm thinking you can minimize the risk of this by:

• Adding quiet hours to your listing
• Adding a fee for disturbances
• Adding a noise/dB meter
• No parties
• No large gatherings
• Age reqreuiments
• Common sense screening

But even then, you still need to have a local contact just to get the permit.

How do y'all handle this if you're far away and not within the distance/time requirement?

I see people buying up properties from out of state, so they must have some kind of system to do this.

Any ideas? Thanks BP fam =].

[Luke Carl]

@Roy Hu One of my markets requires this. I talked to the city on the phone several times. They did not care who this person was. At all. They basically said just give us a name and a phone number. This number has never been called and I’d like to think it’ll stay that way.

So. I think you could give them your housekeepers number and call it a day!