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12/18/2017 Shwrt-tum rentals are now legal in Minneapolis and St. Paul, if you register. Very few .people have. I MinnPost That's a tiny fraction of the estimated i,.800 active;short-term rental listings (on 25 platforms) in Minneapolis, and around 500 active listings in St. Paul in Qctober, according to data from HostCompliance, a company that. helps cities monitor short-term. rentals. Some are renting for thousands of dollars per night during the weekend of the Super Bowl. The, new rules In Minneapolis, hosts who rent out a room in a house that they are living in while guests are there are not required to register or:get a license. If the hosts. live there, but leave when guests arrive, they have to pay $46 annually to register their short-term rental. If they do not live in the unit and rent it out - even short-term -- they have to. obtain a. standard rental license, the cost of which varies depending on the property. While hosts have to pay license and registration fees, the city isn't imposing additional taxes on hosts. In St. Paul, the annual fee for a short-term rental license is $40 per unit, regardless of the size of the unit or whether the hosts occupy it simultaneously'with guests or not. Hosts must get a fire certificate of occupancy, which certifies the property meets safety codes and subjects it to regular inspection, if the rental isn't owner occupied: Hosts are also required to pay taxes (the lodging tax in St. Paul is 3 percent). Because of their Peer -to -peer nature, and because rental platforms have been reluctant to help cities. crack down on scofflaws, short-term rentals are difficult to enforce. But both cities will make -efforts to do SO.. If hosts operate without a .rental license in Minneapolis, they're. subject to a $5oo fine, which can double if it's not resolved by its due.date. Minneapolis will initially warn hosts they are out of compliance before issuing violation notices, wrote city spokeswoman Sarah McKenzie in an email. For the months of December and January, St. Paul. is focused on educating hosts, wrote Dan Niziolek, deputy director of St. Paul's Department of Safety and Inspections, in an email. About So people attended a.Grworkshop the city held in late.November, and. St. Paul plans to send mailings with notifications. of the new rules to current short -terra rental hosts. After that conies enforcement.. Operating a short-term rental in St. Paul without a license is a petty misdemeanor that carries a fine of $3oo, Niziolek wrote. Among the first to apply for registration in St. Paul was aspiring short-term rental.. host Linda Snouf€er, who submitted the paperwork last week: She told MinnPost she wants to get the listing to rent a house she owns next to the one she lives. in up in time. to rent it during the Super Bowl. https:11www.minnpost.co Wpolitics-polioyl2017112lshort=term-rentals-are-now-legal-rninneapolis-and-st-paul-if-you -register-ver 214