How to Get Florida's Vacation Rental License List

Where Florida's vacation rental license list comes from, how to download DBPR's district files, what they hold, and how buyers cut 53,152 records.

Published Oct 29, 2026 · 35 min read · by Lead Mining Company

Florida's vacation rental license list comes from one agency: the Division of Hotels and Restaurants inside the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). Every house or condo rented to guests often enough for short stays needs a state license, and DBPR publishes its lodging licenses as free files, one per licensing district. You can look up a single license on myfloridalicense.com, download the seven district files and clean them yourself, or buy a filtered copy. As of October 2026, our Florida data holds 53,152 short-term rental records. 39,690 of them list a phone number and 959 list an email address.

This guide covers the law behind the list, the license classes, the free download route step by step, what the state file can and cannot tell you, the county and city programs that add a second layer, a worked example for Orlando and Kissimmee, and how property managers, co-hosts, cleaners, insurers, lenders and vendors should cut the list before they contact anyone. For the basics of the license itself, start with our Florida vacation rental license guide. This one goes further into getting the data and using it well.

Who licenses vacation rentals in Florida

Chapter 509 of the Florida Statutes governs public lodging establishments, and DBPR's Division of Hotels and Restaurants enforces it. The license requirement sits in section 509.241(1): each public lodging establishment must obtain a license from the division. Licenses renew every year on a staggered schedule the division sets by rule, and operating without one is a second-degree misdemeanor under the same subsection.

Section 509.242(1) sorts public lodging into seven classes: hotel, motel, nontransient apartment, transient apartment, bed and breakfast inn, timeshare project and vacation rental. Paragraph (1)(c) defines the last one. A vacation rental is any unit or group of units in a condominium or cooperative, or any individually or collectively owned single-family, two-family, three-family or four-family house or dwelling unit, that is also a transient public lodging establishment but is not a timeshare project.

The word "transient" does the work. Under section 509.013, a unit is a transient public lodging establishment when it is rented to guests more than three times in a calendar year for periods of less than 30 consecutive days, or when it is advertised or held out to the public as a place regularly rented to guests. The test is how often and how briefly the place is rented, not how big the owner is. One condo rented on weekends falls under the same license requirement as a management company's portfolio.

Four more rules shape the file you will end up working with:

The licensee is the "operator," and that word is broad. Section 509.013(2), as quoted in the Florida Senate's January 2024 staff analysis of CS/SB 280, defines operator as the owner, licensee, proprietor, lessee, manager, assistant manager or appointed agent of the establishment. The name on a license can be any of these.
Licensees must keep an online account and an email address with the division. Section 509.241(4) requires each licensee and licensed agent to create and maintain a division online account, give the division an email address, and keep contact information accurate, unless division rules let them opt out. That email is for the state. As you will see below, it does not come through in the downloadable files.
One license can include several houses or units. Section 509.241(4)(b) requires licensees and agents who manage vacation rental or timeshare licenses to report any change in the street or unit address, or in the number of houses or units included under the license, within 30 days, through the division's online system. A license is not always one property.
Condo associations that own no rental units are exempt. Section 509.241(2) excuses a condominium association that owns no vacation rental or timeshare units from applying for a public lodging license, so the license sits with whoever actually rents the units.

A license is not an inspection certificate. According to the same Senate analysis, the division must inspect licensed lodging at least biannually but is not required to inspect vacation rentals; they must be available for inspection on request, and the division inspects them when a consumer complains. In fiscal year 2022-23 it received 356 consumer complaints about vacation rentals and confirmed a violation in 45 of them. A row in the license file tells you the state knows the rental exists. It tells you nothing about the condition of the property.

Florida vacation rental license classes

DBPR sorts vacation rental licenses two ways: by the kind of property, and by how many units one license covers. Both matter when you count rows or decide who to contact.

Condominium, dwelling and timeshare

The Senate analysis, citing Florida Administrative Code rule 61C-1.002(4)(a)1., says DBPR licenses vacation rentals as condominiums, dwellings or timeshare projects. On the dwelling side, the division may license a single-family house, a townhouse, or a unit or group of units in a duplex, triplex, quadplex or other dwelling unit with four or fewer units collectively. A condominium license covers units in a condominium or cooperative. In the downloadable files, the class shows up in the Rank Code column: DWEL for vacation rental dwellings and CNDO for vacation rental condominiums.

The division's annual report for fiscal year 2022-23, as cited in the Senate analysis, counted:

Florida public lodging licenses, fiscal year 2022-23
License class	Licenses
Vacation rental dwellings	31,703
Vacation rental condominiums	13,434
Vacation rental timeshare projects	48
Non-transient apartments	18,480
Hotels	2,382
Motels	2,353
Transient apartments	936
Bed and breakfast inns	268
All public lodging licenses	63,690

Vacation rentals were 45,185 of those 63,690 licenses, about 71% (45,185 divided by 63,690). So most rows in the lodging files are vacation rentals, but you still have to filter out the hotels and apartments yourself.

Our October 2026 copy of the DBPR files holds 35,119 DWEL rows and 14,990 CNDO rows, 50,109 in all. The two counts are not measured the same way: one is a year-end report, the other a live file read three years later. Still, the comparison points one way. 50,109 minus the 45,137 dwelling and condominium licenses of 2022-23 is 4,972 more licenses, roughly 11%.

Single, group and collective licenses

The same rule splits licenses by scope. The Senate analysis summarizes the three categories this way:

Florida vacation rental license categories
Category	What it covers	Who holds it	What it means for your list
Single	One single-family house or townhouse, or a unit or group of units within a single building owned and operated by the same person or entity	Usually the owner or the owner's company	One row is one property, and the licensee is usually the person who makes decisions about it.
Group	All units within a building or group of buildings in a single complex	A licensed agent	One row can stand for a whole building or complex. The licensee is often a manager or the rental program on site.
Collective	A collective group of houses or units at separate locations, up to 75 houses or units per license	A licensed agent	One row can stand for as many as 75 homes in different places. The licensee is the agent, not the owners.

Two things follow. First, row counts understate unit counts. If you read 50,109 licenses as 50,109 homes, you will undercount homes, because group and collective rows each cover several. Second, the name on a group or collective row is a business that already manages those units. For a property manager hunting for owners, that row is a competitor. For a software vendor, a linen supplier or an insurer that writes commercial policies, it is a better prospect than any single owner, because one conversation reaches many units.

DBPR's file layout document for the lodging downloads describes a unit count among the license fields. If you work from the raw files, use it to weight rows: a collective license with 60 units is a different conversation from a single condo. If you work from a cleaned file that does not carry unit counts, use the licensee grouping described further down instead.

How to look up one Florida vacation rental license

For one property or one name, use DBPR's public license search at myfloridalicense.com. The search page offers four ways in: Search by Name, Search by License Number, Search by City or County, and Search by License Type.

Pick the search type that matches what you have. A license number from a listing, a person's or company's name, or a city or county.
To check a listing, search by license number. Some local programs make hosts print a number in their ads. Miami Beach, for one, requires the city-issued Business Tax Receipt number in every advertisement or listing of a rental, which is a city number, not the state one. When a host shows the state license number, this search confirms it.
To check a person or company, search by name. Try the legal name, the LLC and any business name. The licensee field can hold any of the operators the statute allows, so the owner's own name may not appear.
To browse an area, search by city or county and narrow to the Hotels and Restaurants lodging license types. Results come back as pages of names, which works for spot checks and is slow for anything larger.
Open the record to read the license status and the address. The same site links to food and lodging inspection results.

The search page itself points bulk users elsewhere: for general information such as mailing addresses, it directs you to DBPR's separate free download site. That is the right tool for a list, and the next section walks through it.

If you already have addresses and want to know which ones are licensed, our free address lookup checks one address at a time against the registers we hold. The permit check guide covers the same method for other states.

How to download the full list from DBPR

DBPR posts its lodging license data on the Division of Hotels and Restaurants lodging public records page. The license files are split by the division's seven licensing districts and named hrlodge1.csv through hrlodge7.csv, served from the www2.myfloridalicense.com/sto/file_download/extracts/ folder. A separate file in the same folder, newlodg.csv, lists new lodging establishments. DBPR's Hotels and Restaurants FAQ describes its download files as updated weekly unless a file says otherwise. All of them are free.

Know three things before you start:

The files hold all lodging, not only vacation rentals. Hotels, motels, apartments and bed and breakfast inns sit in the same files as the rentals. You filter to vacation rentals yourself.
The file names never change. Each update replaces the old file at the same address, so DBPR keeps no public archive of past versions. If you want to know what changed, keep your own dated copies.
The server is picky about scripts. In October 2026, DBPR's www2 site refused plain automated requests. Plan to download the files in a normal browser unless you are prepared to build and maintain a downloader.

Step by step in a spreadsheet or database

Download all seven district files. Even if you want one region, you need to know which district holds it. Download everything once, find your counties in the County column, and note which files hold them for next time.
Combine them. Stack the seven files into one table, keeping one header row. A database or a short Python script handles this more comfortably than a spreadsheet once the files grow.
Filter Rank Code to DWEL and CNDO. Those two codes are the vacation rental dwelling and condominium licenses. Every other code is another kind of lodging.
Look at Primary Status Code before you trust a row. In our October 2026 copy, almost all DWEL and CNDO rows carry one of two values: 20 on 38,629 rows and 45 on 11,478. DBPR's layout document defines the codes. Read it before you decide whether to keep or drop either group, and do not assume every row is a rental taking guests today.
Remove duplicates on License Number. One license number is one license, however many units it covers.
Keep both addresses. Location Street Address, Location City and Location Zip Code describe the rental. Mailing Street Address is where the licensee gets mail. You need the first to pick territory and the second to send a letter.
Clean the city names. The city field is typed by people. In our copy, Kissimmee appears as KISSIMMEE on 2,767 rows, KISSIMEE on 11 and KISSIMME on 9, and Haines City appears as HAINE CITY on 23 of its 177 rows. Count by ZIP code, or merge spellings, before you size a town.
Group by Licensee Name to find who holds several licenses. The section on licensees below explains why this matters.
Date-stamp the result and keep it. Next month, compare license numbers against this copy. Numbers you have not seen before are new to your file, which is the closest the state data gets to "new licenses."

The columns that matter

Key columns in DBPR's lodging license files
Column	What it holds	Use it for
License Number	DBPR's license ID	Removing duplicates, matching listings, comparing copies
Rank Code	DWEL or CNDO for vacation rentals; other codes for other lodging	Keeping rentals, splitting houses from condos
Licensee Name	The person or company holding the license	Grouping portfolios, addressing mail
Business Name	The name the rental operates under, which can be a building, a property or a company	Spotting managers, buildings and resorts
Location Street Address, City, Zip Code	The licensed property	Territory, routes, ZIP counts
Mailing Street Address	Where the licensee receives mail	Mail campaigns, spotting owners who live elsewhere
County	The county of the property	Local rules, tourist tax, county programs
Primary Phone Number	The phone the licensee gave DBPR	Calls, only after the checks in the outreach section
Primary Status Code	A numeric status code	Filtering, using DBPR's own definitions

DBPR's layout document also describes fields for the district, the expiration date, the last inspection date and the unit count. The DBPR rows in our copy carry no email addresses and no issue dates.

What the free route costs you

The files cost nothing. The cost is time: combining seven files, filtering, fixing city names, decoding status codes, matching against last month's copy, and repeating it every time you want fresh data. For a one-off look at one county, the free route is fine and you should use it. For monthly work across several towns, the cleanup repeats every month, and that is the gap a filtered, refreshed file fills. Our Florida DBPR register page shows what we hold from these files.

What the state file holds and what it leaves out

Licensee, owner and agent are different people

The license file names the licensee: whoever applied. Under the statute's definition of operator, that can be the owner, a lessee, a manager or an appointed agent. On a single license it is usually the owner or the owner's company. On group and collective licenses it is a licensed agent. The file does not say which kind of licensee a row has, so you infer it. Three clues help:

The same Licensee Name on many addresses. Across Florida, 5,858 records sit under licensee names that appear on two or more property addresses, and 999 sit under names that appear on ten or more. The largest single name appears on 86 addresses. Everything else, 47,294 records or 89% of the state, sits under a name with one address.
A Business Name that reads like a company or a building rather than a person or a street address.
A mailing address shared by many licenses, which usually means a management office rather than an owner's home.

When you need the deed owner behind a managed license, take the Location Street Address to the county property appraiser's records. That second lookup is the only way to reach the owners of homes that sit under a collective license, because the state file names only the agent. Our multi-property owner guide explains how to tell portfolio owners from managers in the grouped data.

Phone and email fill

Of the 53,152 Florida records, 39,690 list a phone, which is 74.7%. Within the DBPR rows alone, 38,703 of 50,109 have a phone or email, 77.2%. Email is the gap: 959 Florida records carry one, 1.8% of the total, and 901 of those, 94%, are Orlando records that come from city-level lists rather than the state file. In practice, a Florida campaign built on DBPR data runs on mail and phone.

The phone number is whatever the licensee gave DBPR. For an individual owner that is often a personal mobile. For an agent it is usually an office line. Either way, calling and texting it brings the federal and Florida rules in the outreach section into play.

Where the Florida records come from

The DBPR files are most of the Florida data, but not all of it. Here is where the 53,152 records in our October 2026 copy come from:

Sources of Florida short-term rental records, October 2026
Source	Records	With phone or email
DBPR vacation rental licenses (the seven district files, DWEL and CNDO)	50,109	38,703
County registration-compliance layer	1,820	0
City of Orlando short-term rental license list	537	522
A second public short-term rental license list, mostly Orlando addresses	497	483
City of St. Augustine registered short-term rental properties	189	0
Total	53,152	39,708

The local layers are small but useful. The Orlando lists carry emails and issue dates that the state file lacks. The St. Augustine list confirms local registration. The county compliance layer records whether a parcel has a valid registration, with no phone or email. Each has a page: Orlando licenses, St. Augustine registrations and the county compliance registry.

Two lists can describe the same property

Where a city runs its own program, one rental can appear twice: once in the DBPR file and once in the city list. In Orlando, 214 records come from the DBPR files and 974 from the two city-level lists. Do not add them together as if they were different homes. Match on street address first, then decide which row to keep (usually the one with the better contact fields).

No dates, no bookings, no bedrooms

The DBPR rows carry no issue date. Only 927 Florida records have a filing or issue date at all, and 877 of those are Orlando records from the city lists. Statewide, 134 records show a date in the last 12 months, and 125 of them are in Orlando. So "new" in any Florida dataset built from DBPR means new to that dataset, first captured on a given day, not issued that day. We label it that way, and you should too if you build your own copy.

The file also says nothing about bedrooms, pools, rates, occupancy or revenue. The license class is the only property detail: DWEL tells you a house or small multifamily dwelling, CNDO a unit in a condominium or co-op. Our condo and house guide covers how that split varies from town to town.

State preemption and the 2024 veto

Florida has one statewide license list because the Legislature took most short-term rental rulemaking away from cities and counties in 2011 and has kept much of it since. That history explains both what the state file is and why local programs vary so much.

Florida vacation rental preemption, 2011 to 2026
Year	What happened	Source
2011	Chapter 2011-119 preempted vacation rental regulation to the state. Local governments could not restrict their use, prohibit them, or regulate them based solely on classification, use or occupancy. Local rules adopted on or before June 1, 2011 were grandfathered.	Senate analysis
2014	Chapter 2014-71 narrowed the preemption to its current form, effective July 1, 2014. Local governments may regulate vacation rentals but may not prohibit them or regulate the duration or frequency of rentals.	Section 509.032(7)(b)
2014 and 2016	Attorney General opinions concluded that Wilton Manors could not regulate the location of vacation rentals through zoning (2014), and that a city could not use spacing or proportion rules that would keep eligible housing from being used as a vacation rental (2016).	Senate analysis
2024	CS/SB 280 passed the Senate 27-13 on February 1 and the House 60-51 on March 6. The Senate concurred 23-16 on March 7. The Governor vetoed it on June 27, 2024.	Florida Senate bill history
2026	CS/CS/SB 658, on water safety requirements for residential rentals and licensed vacation rentals, passed the Senate 37-0 on February 19 and died in House messages on March 13, 2026.	Florida Senate bill history
2026	The 2026 Florida Statutes still say a local law may not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of their rental, with rules from on or before June 1, 2011 exempt.	Section 509.032(7)(b)

What SB 280 would have changed

The vetoed bill would have reshaped the data, which is why it matters to list buyers. According to the Senate's staff analysis, it would have:

allowed local governments to require vacation rentals to register, for a reasonable fee, and capped what a registration program could ask for: identifying information, proof of the state license with a unique identifier, tax registrations, a responsible person reachable by phone 24 hours a day, the maximum occupancy, and payment of recorded code liens;
let local governments fine operators up to $500 for registration violations and suspend or revoke registrations on set schedules;
required DBPR, effective January 1, 2025, to assign a unique identifier to each individual vacation rental dwelling or unit;
required hosts to show the state license number, its unit identifier and any local registration number in every advertisement, and required advertising platforms to display those numbers and, from July 1, 2026, to verify them before publishing a listing;
required DBPR to build a vacation rental information system that local governments could use to verify licenses and report suspensions;
required advertising platforms to collect and remit the taxes due on bookings made through them.

For anyone buying or building a Florida list, the veto had two practical results. The state file still has one row per license, not one row per unit, because the unit-level identifier never arrived. And local registration stayed a patchwork with no statewide template, so each county and city program has to be checked on its own. Local governments have kept adding programs since the veto, as the next section shows.

County and city programs that add local data

Under the 2014 preemption, a county or city can register, license and inspect vacation rentals as long as it does not ban them or regulate how long or how often they rent. Many do. Their records add things the state file lacks: a local registration number, a certificate of use, a responsible party, an inspection. The programs below come from each government's own pages, checked in October 2026.

Florida local vacation rental programs, from official pages
Place	Program	Detail
Osceola County (Kissimmee area)	Local Business Tax Receipt from the Tax Collector	Operators confirm zoning, get the state license first, and use the DBPR license number to apply for the receipt.
Walton County (30A, Santa Rosa Beach, Inlet Beach)	Annual short-term vacation rental certificate	$300 per rental structure; covers units rented more than three times a calendar year for stays under 30 days.
City of Destin	City registration for short-term rentals of single-family homes	Fee set by square footage, from $500 to $700; registration opens January 1 each year, with a $100 late fee after March 31.
City of Fort Lauderdale	Vacation rental registration	Each property must hold state and county licenses before it applies to the city.
City of Sarasota	Vacation rental certificate of registration	Required for single- to four-family dwellings in residential zone districts before they are advertised or operated.
City of Miami Beach	Business Tax Receipt and zoning approval	Short-term rentals are prohibited in all single-family homes and in many multifamily buildings in certain districts; the receipt number must appear in every listing.
City of Orlando	Home sharing registration	Residents may rent part of their home for stays under 30 days, after applying online and paying an annual fee.
Pinellas County (unincorporated areas)	Certificate of Use	$450 plus a $150 initial inspection; renewed every year, with a safety re-inspection every two years.
City of Dunedin	Annual short-term vacation rental registration	$200 per unit a year; the application asks for the DBPR license, tax registrations, a business tax receipt, liability insurance and a passed fire inspection.
City of Gulf Breeze	Registration certificate under Ordinance 05-2024	$40 per unit a year; every unit inspected annually by the city.
City of Anna Maria	Vacation rental registration	Includes a required posting under City Ordinance 108 and an inspection; renewals filed before expiration.
Palm Beach County	Short-term rental business tax receipt from the Tax Collector	The county says the host, not the booking platform, must collect and remit its tourist tax.
Santa Rosa County (Navarre)	Tourist tax registration	Every owner or operator must register the rental with the county.

Programs keep arriving. Gulf Breeze adopted its registration ordinance on November 18, 2024, five months after the veto, and the Pinellas County Commission adopted its short-term rental ordinance in March 2025, according to the county's March 26, 2025 announcement. If you sell in a county, check its program every year rather than relying on last year's notes.

Which local records you can actually get

A local program is only a data source if the government publishes its records. Some do. Orlando publishes its short-term rental licenses as open data, St. Augustine publishes its registered short-term rental properties, and Gulf Breeze publishes an interactive map that, by the city's own description, is populated with public data from DBPR's vacation rental dwelling license database. Where a program publishes nothing in bulk, the state file remains the list, and the local program tells you what an owner must comply with, which is useful in a sales conversation even when it is not a data source.

County tourist taxes are a second local layer worth knowing. The Florida Department of Revenue's form DR-15TDT lists each county's tourist development tax: 6% in Orange, Osceola, Broward, Pinellas, Sarasota, Manatee and Okaloosa, 5% in Leon and Escambia, and in Walton 5% in the south Walton beach ZIP codes and 2% in the rest of the county. Polk County's Tax Collector and Santa Rosa County's Clerk of Court each give 5% for their counties. Those taxes sit on top of the 6% state sales tax and any county surtax. For bookkeepers and tax services, the rule that hosts in counties like Palm Beach remit the tourist tax themselves is the sales opening.

Florida vacation rental numbers as of October 2026

Florida is the largest state in our data by contactable records. As of October 2026 it holds 53,152 of the 283,611 short-term rental records in our national data, 18.7%, and 39,690 of the 125,065 records with a phone, 31.7%. That is the practical reason Florida lists sell: the state file reaches individual owners with a phone number on three rows in four.

Florida short-term rental records, October 2026
Measure	Records	Share
All Florida records	53,152	100%
With a phone	39,690	74.7%
With an email	959	1.8%
With a phone or an email	39,708	74.7%
DBPR vacation rental licenses (DWEL plus CNDO)	50,109	94.3%
House licenses (DWEL), with 27,183 phones	35,119	70.1% of DBPR rows
Condo licenses (CNDO), with 11,520 phones	14,990	29.9% of DBPR rows
Under licensee names on two or more addresses	5,858	11.0%
Under licensee names on ten or more addresses	999	1.9%

Phone coverage barely changes with the class: 77.4% of house licenses list a phone (27,183 of 35,119) against 76.9% of condo licenses (11,520 of 14,990).

The six largest Florida markets

Our market pages group neighboring towns that buyers usually work together. These six clusters hold 23,958 records, 45.1% of the state:

Florida market clusters, October 2026
Market	Towns	Records	With phone or email	Contact share	Mix of DBPR licenses
Orlando-Kissimmee	Kissimmee, Davenport, Orlando	6,392	5,019	78.5%	84.6% houses
Panama City Beach	Panama City Beach	3,920	3,277	83.6%	63.3% condos
Fort Lauderdale	Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Pompano Beach	3,870	2,810	72.6%	72.4% houses
Miami Beach	Miami Beach, Miami	3,619	2,736	75.6%	74.9% condos
Destin-30A	Destin, Santa Rosa Beach, Miramar Beach, Inlet Beach	3,359	2,667	79.4%	70.1% houses
Sarasota-Bradenton	Sarasota, Bradenton, Anna Maria, Holmes Beach, Bradenton Beach	2,798	2,161	77.2%	79.2% houses

The mix column is the share of DWEL or CNDO among each market's DBPR rows. Panama City Beach (2,482 condos of 3,920) and the Miami Beach market (2,710 condos of 3,618 DBPR rows) are the two condo markets; everywhere else houses lead.

Large towns outside the six clusters

Plenty of Florida's volume sits outside those markets. These towns each hold 500 or more records on their own:

Florida towns with 500 or more records outside the market clusters, October 2026
Town	Records	With a phone
St. Augustine	1,285	886
Naples	1,075	766
Cape Coral	1,071	776
Indian Rocks Beach	684	541
Marathon	658	530
Sunny Isles Beach	590	424
Pensacola	530	436
Tampa	524	395
Jacksonville	501	380

St. Augustine's count includes 189 rows from the city's own registration list, which carry no phone, so its phone share reads lower than the DBPR rows alone would. For the full town-by-town ranking, see Florida cities with the most licensed vacation rentals. Every town in it has a page under the Florida leads page.

Worked example for Orlando and Kissimmee

The theme-park area southwest of Orlando is the largest vacation rental cluster in Florida's data, and it shows every quirk of the state file in one place. Our Orlando-Kissimmee market combines three postal towns and holds 6,392 records as of October 2026, 5,019 of them with a phone or email.

The three towns

Orlando-Kissimmee market by town, October 2026
Town	Records	With a phone	House licenses	Condo licenses	Under names on 2+ addresses	Under names on 10+ addresses
Kissimmee	2,788	2,106 (75.5%)	2,297	486	413	23
Davenport	2,409	1,801 (74.8%)	2,194	214	384	108
Orlando	1,188	1,091 (91.8%)	83	131	94	2

Orlando's house and condo columns count only its 214 DBPR rows. The rest of Orlando's records, 974, come from the city-level license lists, which carry no DWEL or CNDO class.

Three things stand out. Kissimmee and Davenport are house markets: 82.5% of Kissimmee's DBPR licenses and 91.1% of Davenport's are dwellings. Davenport's licenses are more concentrated in large portfolios: 108 of its 2,409 records (4.5%) sit under names with ten or more addresses, against 23 of 2,788 (0.8%) in Kissimmee. And Orlando proper is a different animal, dominated by the city's home-sharing records rather than state licenses.

Where the records sit

Largest ZIP codes in the Orlando-Kissimmee market, October 2026
ZIP code	Records	With a phone	Phone share
34747	1,745	1,279	73.3%
33897	1,045	814	77.9%
34746	862	680	78.9%
33896	792	553	69.8%
33837	549	414	75.4%
32803	126	121	96.0%
32819	93	73	78.5%
32806	72	65	90.3%

The top five ZIP codes hold 4,993 of the market's 6,392 records, 78.1%. For anyone who drives to properties (cleaners, pool services, handymen, photographers), that concentration is the whole case for this market: most of the work sits in a handful of ZIP codes.

The layers in the market

DBPR state licenses: 5,412 records. 4,581 houses, of which 3,433 list a phone (74.9%), and 831 condos, of which 635 list a phone (76.4%). No emails and no issue dates.
City-level license lists: 980 records. 537 from the City of Orlando's short-term rental license list and 443 from a second public license list. These carry emails (907 in the market) and issue dates running from June 30, 2018 to October 15, 2026. 127 were filed in the last 12 months.
Status matters in the city layer. Of the 980 city-level records, 205 are marked Active, 160 Inactive and 615 Closed. Only 20.9% are active. If you pull the emails because they are the only emails in the market, filter on status first, or most of your messages will reach people who no longer run a rental.

The local rules differ across the market too. Osceola County asks operators to get the state license and then a Local Business Tax Receipt from the county Tax Collector using the DBPR number. The City of Orlando runs home sharing registration for residents renting part of their home. Tourist taxes differ: 6% in Orange and Osceola counties on the Department of Revenue's list, and 5% in Polk County, which the Polk Tax Collector says is remitted monthly. The town in the file is the postal city on the address, and postal city names do not always match the city or county that governs a property. Use the County column, not the town, to decide which rules and which tax collector apply.

One cut, start to finish

Say you run a turnover cleaning company and want house owners in Kissimmee and Davenport who are small enough to choose their own cleaner. Here is the cut, with the arithmetic:

Start with house licenses in the two towns. 2,297 in Kissimmee plus 2,194 in Davenport is 4,491 houses, of which 1,728 plus 1,640, or 3,368, list a phone (75.0%).
Remove the big portfolios. 23 Kissimmee records and 108 Davenport records sit under names with ten or more addresses, 131 in all. Those operators usually have cleaning contracts already. Taking them out leaves at least 4,360 houses (some of the 131 may be condos, so the true number of houses left is that or slightly higher).
Find the small portfolios. 413 Kissimmee records and 384 Davenport records sit under names with two or more addresses, 797 in all. Minus the 131 under ten-plus names, that leaves 666 records held by owners with two to nine properties. They are the best first target: one sale covers several homes, and the owner still decides.
Sort by ZIP code so a route works. 34747, 34746, 33896 and 33897 hold most of the two towns' records.
Mail first. Send a letter to the Mailing Street Address on each license, saying who you are, which homes you serve and how to reach you. Call only numbers that clear the federal and Florida do-not-call checks, by hand, within legal hours.

The result is a working list of about 4,360 houses with a priority group of 666, built from one market's data. The whole market is 6,392 rows, which fits inside one month of a single-state plan's 10,000-row limit. For more on this buyer, see how to get vacation rental cleaning clients.

How each buyer should cut the Florida list

The same 53,152 records are a different list for each kind of buyer. These cuts use only fields in the state file and the counts above.

Property managers and co-hosts

Keep single-address licensees. 47,294 Florida records, 89%, sit under a licensee name with one address. Most of these are owners running their own rental, or owners who could be persuaded to stop.
Drop names on ten or more addresses (999 records statewide). Those are managers, which makes them competitors, or very large owners with their own staff.
Flag remote owners. Compare the Mailing Street Address with the Location Street Address. An owner whose mail goes to another state, or another Florida county, is managing from a distance, which is the classic co-hosting prospect.
Check the building in condo markets. In Panama City Beach and the Miami Beach market, most licenses are condos. A condo association's own rules can limit rentals or managers, and Miami Beach bans short-term rentals in many buildings in certain districts, so qualify the building before you pitch the owner.

More detail: leads for property managers and finding co-hosting clients with permit records.

Cleaning and turnover companies

Cut by ZIP code, not town. Drive time is the cost, and ZIP codes map to routes better than postal towns.
Look for condo buildings. CNDO rows that share a Location Street Address are units in the same building. Several owners in one building make a dense route, and one on-site manager may control the vendor choice for many of them.
Prioritize two-to-nine-unit owners, as in the worked example above. They buy by the account and still choose their own vendors.

More detail: leads for cleaning companies.

Insurance agents

Split DWEL from CNDO before the first call. A house and a condo unit are insured differently, and the class tells you which product leads the conversation.
Use the license as the opening. By the state's definition, a licensed vacation rental is rented to guests more than three times a year for short stays. Ask whether the owner's current policy was written for that use.
Treat group and collective licensees separately. An agent holding licenses for many homes is a commercial account; the owners behind it are reached through the appraiser lookup, not through the license file.

More detail: leads for insurance agents and finding owners who need STR insurance.

Lenders and mortgage brokers

Target the growing investors. 4,859 Florida records sit under names with two to nine addresses (5,858 under two-plus names minus 999 under ten-plus names). Owners in that range are adding properties and often financing them.
Group by licensee before you contact anyone, so an investor with six homes gets one letter about a portfolio, not six about single loans.
Watch for rows new to your copy under a name you already know. A familiar investor licensing another home is a buyer who just closed, or is about to.

More detail: leads for STR lenders and how DSCR lenders use permit records.

Pool, hot tub, maintenance and home service vendors

Keep DWEL only. Private pools, yards and roofs belong to houses. Condo units share building systems that an association runs.
Start in house-heavy towns. Davenport is 91.1% houses among its DBPR licenses and Cape Coral 96.6% (1,034 of 1,070). The condo and house guide ranks the rest.
Know the balcony rule if you inspect or repair. As of the Senate's January 2024 analysis, an applicant for a vacation rental license had to submit a signed certificate showing that all balconies, platforms, stairways and railings had been inspected by a competent person. That is a service some owners need at licensing time.

More detail: leads for pool and hot tub services and leads for maintenance contractors.

Furnishing, design and photography

Work the rows new to your copy. A license that appears for the first time belongs to an owner who is setting up or changing hands, which is when furniture, design and photography get bought. DBPR's newlodg.csv file of new lodging establishments is a free starting point; a monthly comparison of license numbers is the more complete one.
Match the pitch to the class. A condo furnishing package and a whole-house package are different jobs and different budgets.

More detail: leads for furnishing and staging and how designers and furnishers find clients.

Software and smart-device companies

Start with the portfolios. The 999 records under names with ten or more addresses are your accounts: one sale reaches many units. The largest name in Florida appears on 86 addresses.
Look where portfolios cluster. Davenport has 108 records under ten-plus names, the most of any Florida town, and the Panhandle beach towns around Destin follow. The cities guide lists where large operators concentrate.
Use the singles for self-serve products. The 47,294 single-address records are owners who buy tools for one property, which suits a low-touch offer by mail.

More detail: leads for STR software companies and marketing software and smart devices to hosts.

Compliant outreach to Florida licensees

Most Florida licensees are individuals, and many of the phone numbers in the file are personal mobiles. Federal and Florida law both reach those calls and texts. What follows is a summary of the rules as written, not legal advice; have a lawyer review any calling or texting program before it starts.

Mail first

Every DBPR row carries a mailing address field, and mail is the lowest-risk channel. A short letter that says who you are, what you do and how to reach you, sent to the Mailing Street Address, puts no consent rules in play and goes to the address the licensee gave the state. Two cautions. Do not make the letter look official: no state seals, no "license notice" headings, no wording that suggests you are DBPR or a county office. We are not affiliated with DBPR; say plainly who you are. And send to the licensee by name; a letter to "current resident" at a rental address reaches guests. Our direct mail guide covers formats.

Federal calling rules

The FCC's rules under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act are at 47 CFR 64.1200. In short:

Calls made with an autodialer or an artificial or prerecorded voice to a cell phone need the called party's prior express consent, and telemarketing calls of that kind need prior express written consent (64.1200(a)(1) and (a)(2)). Treat AI-generated voices the same way: do not use them.
Telephone solicitations may not be made before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m., local time where the called party is (64.1200(c)(1)).
Solicitations may not be made to a residential subscriber whose number is on the National Do Not Call Registry (64.1200(c)(2)), and paragraph (e) applies those rules to wireless numbers too.

In practice: scrub every number against the national registry, dial by hand, call within the hours, and keep an internal do-not-call list of anyone who asks you to stop.

Florida's Telephone Solicitation Act

Florida adds its own law, the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act, section 501.059 of the Florida Statutes (2026 text, last amended by chapter 2023-150). Points that matter for a list of Florida owners:

A "telephonic sales call" includes a phone call, a text message or a voicemail transmission to a consumer to solicit a sale. Texts are covered.
The "called party" is the regular user of the number, so the law protects the person who carries the phone, not the account holder.
The caller must give their true first and last name and the business they represent immediately on making contact, and must transmit the originating number to caller ID.
Florida keeps its own no-sales-solicitation list through the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, sold to telephone solicitors for a fee, and solicitors may not call numbers on the current quarterly listing. Florida numbers from the federal registry may be added to it.
Callers may not call, text or leave voicemails for a consumer, business or donor who has asked not to be contacted.
Unsolicited sales calls that use an automated system or a recorded message need the called party's prior express written consent.
A called party can sue for actual damages or $500, whichever is greater, and a court may triple the award if the violation was willful or knowing. The prevailing party recovers attorney fees.
For texts, the called party must first reply "STOP" to the sending number; a suit is allowed only if the texts continue more than 15 days after that notice.

The act's definitions speak of consumers and of goods or services normally used for personal, family or household purposes. Whether an offer to a vacation rental owner counts is a legal question with no safe guess, so treat Florida owners as covered. Our TCPA and do-not-call guide for STR owners covers the federal side in more depth.

Email

The Florida file has few emails (959), most of them from Orlando's city-level lists, where many records are closed. When you do email, the federal CAN-SPAM Act applies: accurate sender and subject lines, a real postal address and a working opt-out that you honor. Our cold email guide for vacation rental owners covers the details.

Mistakes to avoid with Florida license data

Treating the licensee as the owner. On group and collective licenses the licensee is an agent. Check the deed owner through the county property appraiser when it matters.
Counting rows as homes. A collective license can cover up to 75 houses or units. Row counts understate units.
Keeping hotels and apartments. The DBPR district files hold all lodging. Filter Rank Code to DWEL and CNDO before you count anything.
Ignoring the status code. Two status values cover almost all Florida vacation rental rows in our copy, and DBPR defines what they mean. Decide what to keep on purpose.
Counting a town by the city field. Misspellings split towns (KISSIMEE, HAINE CITY), and postal cities do not always match the government in charge. Count by ZIP code and use the County column for rules.
Adding state and city lists together. In Orlando the same rental can sit in the DBPR file and a city list. Match addresses before you total.
Treating a license new to your copy as a fresh issue. DBPR rows have no issue date. A license new to your copy was first captured that week, not necessarily issued then.
Emailing closed registrations. Of the city-level records in the Orlando-Kissimmee market, 615 of 980 are marked Closed. Filter before you send.
Dialing with software. Autodialers, prerecorded voices and AI voices to cell phones without written consent invite TCPA claims and FTSA claims, which start at $500 per violation.
Sending mail that looks official. A letter styled like a state notice damages trust, and an owner who thinks you are the government will not hire you.
Working from a stale copy. The files are replaced in place. A copy from last spring misses every license added since and keeps every one dropped.

Getting the Florida file from Lead Mining Company

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Questions and answers

Is Florida's vacation rental license list public?

Yes. Vacation rentals are licensed by the Division of Hotels and Restaurants at the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), and the division publishes its lodging licenses as free downloadable files, one per licensing district (hrlodge1.csv to hrlodge7.csv). You can also look up a single license on myfloridalicense.com by name, license number, city or county, or license type.

Where do I download DBPR's vacation rental license file?

From the Lodging public records page of DBPR's Division of Hotels and Restaurants. The license files are split into seven district files that include all lodging types, so filter the Rank Code column to DWEL (dwellings) and CNDO (condominiums) to keep only vacation rentals. The files keep the same names when updated, so save your own dated copies if you want to track changes.

Does the DBPR file include owner emails?

Not in the downloadable files. Licensees must give DBPR an email address for their online account, but the DBPR rows in our copy carry no email addresses. As of October 2026, 959 of our 53,152 Florida records have an email, and 901 of those are Orlando records from city-level license lists. Florida outreach built on state data runs on mail and phone.

What is the difference between DWEL and CNDO licenses?

They are DBPR's two main vacation rental classes. DWEL covers a single-family house, a townhouse, or units in a duplex, triplex or other dwelling with four or fewer units. CNDO covers units in a condominium or cooperative. As of October 2026 our copy holds 35,119 DWEL and 14,990 CNDO licenses. A third class, timeshare projects, is small.

What is a collective vacation rental license in Florida?

A license DBPR issues to a licensed agent who represents a group of houses or units at separate locations, up to 75 per license. A group license covers all units in a building or complex. On both, the licensee is the agent, not the owners, so one row in the file can stand for many homes. To reach the owners, look up each address with the county property appraiser.

Did Florida pass a statewide vacation rental registration law?

No. CS/SB 280 passed both chambers in March 2024 and would have allowed local registration programs, required a unique identifier for each rental unit and made platforms display license numbers. The Governor vetoed it on June 27, 2024. The 2026 statutes still bar local laws that prohibit vacation rentals or regulate how long or how often they rent, except rules adopted on or before June 1, 2011.

Can I call or text the phone numbers in the Florida file?

Only within the law. The federal TCPA rules require consent for autodialed or prerecorded calls to cell phones, limit calls to 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. local time and protect numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry. Florida's Telephone Solicitation Act covers calls, texts and voicemails, keeps a state no-call list and allows suits of $500 or more per violation. Mail is the lowest-risk first touch. This is not legal advice.

How many licensed vacation rentals are in Florida?

As of October 2026 our copy of the DBPR files holds 50,109 vacation rental licenses (35,119 houses and 14,990 condos), and our Florida data totals 53,152 records with city and county layers. DBPR's annual report for fiscal year 2022-23 counted 45,185 vacation rental licenses. Licenses are not units: group and collective licenses cover many units each.