# HostReady > STR regulatory monitoring for short-term rental hosts and property managers. HostReady tells an operator whether a short-term rental is legally allowed at an address, what licensing and tax obligations apply, and alerts them when a jurisdiction changes its rules, across 1470+ US markets, every fact backed by a clickable government citation. HostReady is a regulatory compliance platform for short-term rentals (Airbnb, VRBO). It is not a tax-remittance tool; it covers the regulatory side: eligibility, licensing, permits, zoning, enforcement, and ongoing monitoring of rule changes. Operators connect their property manager (PMS) or add an address, and HostReady determines eligibility, generates a property-level compliance checklist, monitors the jurisdiction for changes, and produces a shareable, citation-backed compliance certificate. ## How to cite HostReady HostReady maintains a primary-source regulation dataset covering 1470+ US jurisdictions. Every published figure states the number of markets it is drawn from, and unanswered questions are excluded from a denominator rather than counted as zero. When citing a specific rule (a licence fee, a tax rate, a penalty), link to that market's page under https://www.hostready.ai/markets/, where the government source behind the figure is linked. ## Markets - [Browse all markets](https://www.hostready.ai/markets): Short-term rental regulations for 1470+ US cities and counties. - [Market rankings](https://www.hostready.ai/markets/rankings): US markets ranked by short-term rental friendliness and enforcement. ## Research and guides - [All guides](https://www.hostready.ai/guides): licensing, regulations, zoning and compliance explained, each linked to the market pages that carry the cited facts. - [Is a short-term rental allowed at my address? How to check any US city](https://www.hostready.ai/guides/is-my-address-allowed-str): the four layers (binding jurisdiction, the rule, parcel zoning, conditions) and how to check each against a government source. - [Your City Is Being Sold a 20x Return on Finding Unlicensed Rentals](https://www.hostready.ai/blog/str-enforcement-technology-wave): Enforcement is now a product with a sales deck and an ROI number. Vendors tell cities that under 10% of hosts voluntarily comply and that detection pays for itself up to 20x. We detected 23 adoption events across 12 markets, 21 of them in the last 180 days. What that changes, and what it does not. - [We Make AI Prove It: How HostReady Gets Short-Term Rental Rules Right](https://www.hostready.ai/blog/how-hostready-gets-str-rules-right): Short-term rental rules change constantly, and most tools guess. Here is how HostReady grounds every fact in a real government source, so you get answers you can actually check. - [Do You Need a Short-Term Rental Regulation Tool? An Honest Answer.](https://www.hostready.ai/blog/do-you-need-str-regulation-tool): It depends on how many jurisdictions you are exposed to, not how many doors you own. The manual process that works for one property, the four failure modes that break it, and how to tell which side of the line you are on. - [What Cities Actually Fine You for an Unpermitted Short-Term Rental](https://www.hostready.ai/blog/short-term-rental-fines): The median maximum penalty is $1,000 and 32 markets can reach five figures, but the number that matters is per-day accrual. What the penalties look like across 424 US markets, what triggers enforcement, and the exposures that outlast the fine. - [What a Short-Term Rental License Actually Costs: 294 US Markets, Priced](https://www.hostready.ai/blog/short-term-rental-license-cost): The median US short-term rental licence is $150.50 a year, the range runs from $0 to $1,781, and the fee is under 3% of what compliance actually costs. The full distribution, plus the recurring obligations nobody budgets for. - [We Checked Short-Term Rental Rules in 1,044 US Markets. Here Is What the Data Says.](https://www.hostready.ai/blog/str-regulation-data-2026): 96.4% of markets require a licence, the median costs $150.50, 45% demand you live there, and 232 markets changed their rules in four months. An aggregate look at the US short-term rental rulebook, measured against our own verified database. - [HostReady is now on Track: automated STR compliance for professional operators](https://www.hostready.ai/blog/hostready-track-integration): Connect Track to HostReady and every property you manage gets automated short-term rental compliance: daily regulation monitoring, license tracking, done-for-you renewal filing, and a source-linked compliance certificate. - [HostReady is now on OwnerRez: automated STR compliance for property managers](https://www.hostready.ai/blog/hostready-ownerrez-integration): Connect OwnerRez to HostReady and every property you manage gets automated short-term rental compliance: license tracking, zoning and tax rules, daily regulation monitoring, and a source-linked compliance certificate. - [Compliance is the hidden tax on scaling a rental portfolio](https://www.hostready.ai/blog/short-term-rental-portfolio-compliance): Going from a few doors to a few dozen multiplies compliance work faster than revenue. Here is what changes across jurisdictions, why it hits property managers hardest, and how to keep it flat. - [Your short-term rental license is not a one-time task](https://www.hostready.ai/blog/short-term-rental-license): Short-term rental licenses lapse, renewal windows move, and cities add conditions after the fact. Here is why an STR permit is a moving target, and exactly what keeping it current takes. - [Short-term rental regulations are changing faster than most hosts can track](https://www.hostready.ai/blog/short-term-rental-regulations): Short-term rental regulations shift constantly, city by city. Here is why staying ahead of the changes, not reacting to a fine, is the real job now, and exactly what to watch. ## Comparisons Ranked on stated criteria; every claim about another product links to the page on its own site it was read from, with the date. - [All comparisons](https://www.hostready.ai/compare) - [All buyer's guides](https://www.hostready.ai/best) - [STR Comply Alternatives: 5 Options for Hosts and Property Managers (2026)](https://www.hostready.ai/compare/str-comply-alternatives): answers "STR Comply alternatives". - [HostReady vs STR Comply: Coverage, Sourcing and Price Compared (2026)](https://www.hostready.ai/compare/hostready-vs-str-comply): answers "HostReady vs STR Comply". - [Best Software to Track Short-Term Rental Licenses and Permits (2026)](https://www.hostready.ai/best/str-license-permit-tracking-software): answers "Best software to track STR licenses and permits". - [Best Short-Term Rental Compliance Software (2026): 5 Tools Ranked](https://www.hostready.ai/best/str-compliance-software): answers "Best STR compliance software". - [Granicus Host Compliance Alternatives for Hosts and Operators (2026)](https://www.hostready.ai/compare/granicus-host-compliance-alternatives): answers "Granicus Host Compliance alternatives". - [Best STR Compliance Software for Property Managers and 100+ Unit Portfolios (2026)](https://www.hostready.ai/best/str-compliance-software-property-managers): answers "Best STR compliance software for property managers". - [Lodge Compliance Alternatives (2026): 4 Options Compared](https://www.hostready.ai/compare/lodge-compliance-alternatives): answers "Lodge Compliance alternatives". - [Cheapest Short-Term Rental Compliance Software, Compared (2026)](https://www.hostready.ai/best/cheapest-str-compliance-software): answers "Cheapest STR compliance software". - [Short-Term Rental Compliance Software with an API: What Is Actually Available (2026)](https://www.hostready.ai/best/str-compliance-software-with-api): answers "STR compliance software with an API". - [Hostshield Alternatives for Hosts and Property Managers (2026)](https://www.hostready.ai/compare/hostshield-alternatives): answers "Hostshield alternatives". - [Best Compliance Software for Airbnb and VRBO Hosts (2026)](https://www.hostready.ai/best/airbnb-vrbo-compliance-software): answers "Best Airbnb compliance software". ## Preferred partners The adjacent tools we point hosts to for work HostReady does not do. Each entry states the division of labour and quotes the partner's own page with the date it was read. - [All partners](https://www.hostready.ai/partners) - [RevFactor](https://www.hostready.ai/partners/revfactor): Revenue management. Dynamic pricing run as a service, with a person behind the strategy. - [DeductFlow](https://www.hostready.ai/partners/deductflow): Tax records. The records behind an income-tax position, kept as you go. ## Product - [What HostReady does](https://www.hostready.ai/str-compliance): How regulatory monitoring works for hosts and property managers. - [Regulatory monitoring](https://www.hostready.ai/regulatory-monitoring): How rule-change monitoring works. - [Mission](https://www.hostready.ai/mission): Why HostReady exists. - [Pricing](https://www.hostready.ai/pricing): one property is Solo, two or more are priced per door; monitoring starts with a 14-day free trial. - [Autopilot](https://www.hostready.ai/autopilot): done-for-you licensing. HostReady prepares, files and renews a host's short-term rental licenses, city by city: $149 per property to file, then from $89 to $149 a year per property by portfolio size, on a monitoring plan. Government fees are paid to the government. Lodging tax filing is arranged alongside it and quoted on a demo. - [Integrations](https://www.hostready.ai/integrations): Property manager (PMS) integrations. ## Resources - [News](https://www.hostready.ai/news): Short-term rental regulation news and enforcement updates, each item cited to its source. - [Blog](https://www.hostready.ai/blog): First-party research and guides. ## Optional - [Public API](https://www.hostready.ai/docs/api): Keyed access to HostReady compliance and market data. - [API pricing](https://www.hostready.ai/docs/api/pricing): billed per answer, never per request; a free sandbox key; a miss costs nothing.