Airbnb and Short-Term Rental License Requirements in Pompano Beach, Florida

Yes, you need a licence to rent a home on Airbnb in Pompano Beach, though there is no Airbnb permit as such. The city calls it a short-term rental permit, it covers every platform equally, and it is not one licence. It is ten separate registrations across four agencies, two notarised affidavits, two drawings and a city inspection. About $1,000 in the first year.

Worth checking before you read on: Pompano Beach counts any let of under six months as short term. Not thirty days, six months. If you rent to a snowbird from November to April, you need this permit, and a lot of owners doing exactly that do not realise it.

What Pompano Beach actually requires

Six of these have to exist before the city will look at your application, because copies of each are attached to it. They have to be done in order.

1. A state lodging licence Transient public lodging establishment, from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
2. A Florida sales tax account From the Department of Revenue. The certificate has to be in the property owner's name and list the property address.
3. A Broward County tourist tax account With the Broward County Tax Collector.
4. A Broward County business tax receipt
5. A City of Pompano Beach business tax receipt
6. A lien search Proving no pending code violations and no unsatisfied liens on any property you own in Pompano Beach, not only this one. It is only valid for 30 days, so it has to be ordered last, after everything else is signed and finished. Buy it early and one late document costs you the fee twice.
7. A site plan drawing Property lines, parking spaces, pool, spa or hot tub, fences, and where the rubbish bins are stored and screened.
8. An interior floor plan drawing Every bedroom, every exit, and the location of every fire extinguisher.
9. Your lease agreement The standard agreement you will use with guests.
10. Two notarised affidavits Signed by every owner, plus a separate one signed by your 24-hour contact.

Then the city inspects the property, by appointment made with your 24-hour contact.

We wrote the whole process out step by step, in the order it has to be done, including what each agency wants and where people get stuck: How to get an Airbnb or short-term rental license in Pompano Beach.

The shortcut: four of the six can be ours, not yours

Florida allows several of these registrations to be held collectively, meaning one registration covers several properties under a single operator. We hold all four that way, and adding your property to an existing collective is a different job from starting your own.

• State lodging licence Added to ours for roughly $10 to $20, rather than about $130 and your own application.
• Florida sales tax registration Ours is a collective certificate. Your property becomes a line item rather than a new registration.
• Broward County tourist tax account Also collective. Your property joins ours.
• Broward County business tax receipt Also collective. One more property, a little more money.

Two stay yours either way: the Pompano Beach business tax receipt, and the lien search, which never could be collective, since it searches the properties you own. The short-term rental permit is always one per property. You go to the city holding the collective paperwork for everything else, and the permit is issued against it.

And the part that matters most: whoever holds the tax account files the returns. Sales tax and tourist tax are not one-time approvals. They are accounts that owe a return every month for as long as they stay open, including months when nobody stayed and nothing is due. If those accounts are yours, that is twelve filings a year, forever, remembered by you. If they are ours, we file them.

Said plainly, because you should hear it from us rather than find out later: take this route and the permit on your property is issued in our name, not yours. The house is yours; the permit that lets it be rented short term is ours. If you want us running the property anyway, that is invisible and convenient. If you would rather hold the permit in your own name, do the six registrations yourself. That is a perfectly good reason to choose that route, and we will tell you how.

Two of those are not approvals. They are tax accounts.

The sales tax registration and the tourist tax account are not one-time permissions. They are accounts you keep filing against, every month, for as long as they exist, whether or not anybody stayed. Most owners do not find that out until they have already been renting for a while.

The 25-mile rule, and why out-of-state owners get stuck here

Pompano Beach requires a named 24-hour contact who lives within 25 miles of the property. That person has to be reachable at any hour, have the authority to deal with problems, keep the property clear of rubbish, and tell every guest the rules on parking, bins, noise and outdoor music before they move in. They sign their own notarised affidavit.

The inspection is booked by appointment with that contact. So if you do not live within 25 miles of your own property, your application cannot move forward until someone who does agrees to take responsibility for it.

What it costs

Two things nobody warns you about

The permit expires on September 30 every year, whatever date you got it. There is no proration. Apply in August and you renew six weeks later at the full renewal price.

It does not transfer with the property. If you sell, the buyer starts the entire process again from the beginning. Worth knowing before you agree a closing date.

What we do, for $199

We prepare and file all ten, produce both drawings, arrange the notary, and get the property ready for its inspection. You pay the government fees directly, at cost. We do not mark them up and you see every receipt.

We are in Pompano Beach, so we can also be your 24-hour contact if you are not local.

Pompano Beach only for now. We are expanding one town at a time. If your property is somewhere else, tell us where and we will let you know when we get there.

Requirements taken from the City of Pompano Beach short-term rental application. Current as of September 2026. Fees and rules change, so check with the city before relying on any figure here.