The positive impacts to these communities is the generation of tax revenue, new jobs, and money being spent at local businesses. One vacation rental on average hosts 4-6 stays in a month. On average, this is 22 people per month that are traveling and spending money in that specific neighborhood. This supports local businesses such as coffee shops, stores, venues, and restaurants. Many stays are family focused in which people are traveling to visit relatives. This also creates jobs for neighborhood cleaning services and maintenance businesses. This money coming from outside of the community helps fuel the local economy.  

When discussing neighborhood safety, it helps to keep in mind both short-term rental and long-term rental tenants. There can be similar problems that occur from both types of tenants such as noise, trash, parking, and public safety issues. Tension and hostility can arise between short-term rental landlords and neighbors. Guests traveling to a neighborhood may not acknowledge local laws and rules. It's important as a short-term rental owner to educate guests by use of guidebooks, communication, and monitoring. 

Cohost partners with a company NoiseAware to monitor only the decibel levels of a home to better know when guests are being a bit too loud. Knowing exactly when guests are loud can give a short-term rental landlord the power to prevent upset neighbors because of noise issues. 

In recent news, people are booking homes strictly to throw house parties. Cohost has preventive measure against this by restricting bookings to a minimum of 2 days per stay. 

It's beneficial for everyone for the short-term rental market to be regulated and for vacation rentals to stay in compliance. It keeps communities happy and welcoming to the market without the need for an area wide ban of short-term rentals. That being said, there are many short-term rental landlords that do not care for regulations and laws that give the majority of vacation rental owners a bad name. Compliance isn't just for over regulating, it's for creating fair competition and the benefit of the community these rentals are in. Keeping this in mind, here is how Cohost is assisting governments with those rentals which are out of compliance.

Cohost partners with government agencies to better assist compliance regarding short-term rentals and vacation rentals. Using open source data points, Cohost helps by supplying information on a property's registered tax fees, licensing, and the latitude and longitude of properties out of compliance. These open data points are crucial to enforcing particular compliance laws as the majority of OTAs or listing channels (such as Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, etc) aren't equipped as of now for publishing the information needed for this enforcement.

• This additional tourism attracts people from outside the area to visit and spend money in town. These are transients who are going to spend money at local businesses and restaurants.

• It's important that the city does not lose out on tax revenue. The tax revenue is beneficial to all residents especially ones that rely on public services. It's important to note that without proper enforcement or technologies in place it can be difficult to find out-of-compliant homes. Since address data is usually hidden from short-term rental listings, our open data points can find the latitude and longitude, and permit data of the property.
• Cohost minimizes parking issues by clearly instructing guests on parking rules. In bigger cities, improper parking results in parking fees that is added revenue for the city.
• Properties managed by Cohost have accurate occupancy data, which can be used for monitoring compliance based on the amount of days that a home can be rented out.
• Cohost managed properties include a guidebook stating local sound, trash, and parking rules and ordinances along with a notice to be a great neighbor to inform all guests who stay at these properties so they know what to expect when traveling to a new neighborhood.
• Cohost and Cohost Host Success Agents are on the ground near these properties and are considered a local contact in the instance someone needs to contacted for corrective action. This is mainly for events that are considered non-emergency issues such as noise, trash, or parking problems.
• All Cohost managed properties are subject to a guest limit. Generally, each bedroom can host a maximum of 2 guests and in some cases with bunk-beds a few more (depending on if a room fits multiple bunk beds.) This limit is strictly enforced by Cohost to prevent noisy parties, and loss of revenue for the homeowner and local governing bodies (from loss of guest taxation).
• Powered by Cohost Analytics, each property that is managed by Cohost has lifetime records of important information that can be utilized by local governments in the instance of inspections or audits.

$1,000 

+$0.50 per property indexed and reported on each month

Scalability: Cohost's contract scales up and down with available STRs in a market. We only evaluate active properties.

Inexpensive: Fraction of the cost of competitors for Compliance Monitoring