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We maintain a live database of 283,611 short-term-rental permit records and we build data pipelines for a living, so these guides come from what the registers actually publish and what the work actually costs — not from guesswork.
Short-term-rental permit data
How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026
Airbnb hides hosts behind a first name and a message box. Here are the seven ways companies actually reach property owners — with the honest costs and failure modes of each.
DataSTR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside
When someone registers a short-term rental with their city, that filing becomes a public record. Here is exactly what those records contain, where they come from, and how businesses use them.
PlaybookHow Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data
Every permit holder is a homeowner already committed to short-term renting. A practical owner-acquisition playbook for property managers and co-hosts, step by step.
ReferenceShort-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026
Some states license statewide, most leave it to cities, and two have shut local permitting down entirely. The full 50-state picture of where STR permits live.
ComplianceContacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics
Permit records are public. That does not make every phone call legal. The compliance rules every STR vendor should know before working a lead list.
StrategyPending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads
A pending STR application is a homeowner days away from needing everything — furniture, cleaning, insurance, management. How to time outreach to the permit lifecycle.
ComparisonAirbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records
Scrapers, brokers, market-analytics tools and permit registers all sell 'Airbnb data.' They are different products for different jobs. An honest comparison.
ReferenceWhy You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data
Both states preempted local short-term-rental permitting, so the public registers other states publish simply don't exist there. What happened, and what it means for outreach.
FloridaHow Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals
Florida licenses vacation rentals statewide through the DBPR. What the law covers, what the public license file contains, and what it leaves out, with live counts.
FloridaFlorida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals
A ranking of Florida cities by vacation-rental licenses on file, with phone coverage and the house and condo split for each, from the state license data.
FloridaVacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City
Florida's license file codes every vacation rental as a dwelling or a condominium. Where condos dominate, where houses do, and why it matters for anyone selling to owners.
PlaybookHow to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City
Start from the register that covers the city, clean the city name, check what contact data it publishes, then work the list by ZIP. A step-by-step method with real city numbers.
DataHow to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties
Owner names on permit records show who holds one rental and who holds dozens. How to count properties per owner, where multi-property operators cluster, and the limits of the method.
PlaybookDirect Mail to Vacation Rental Owners
Many STR registers publish no phone numbers, but every record has an address. How to turn an address-level permit list into a mail campaign that reaches the owner.
ReferenceWhich U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers
The public permit and license registers behind PermitPulse, state by state: which are statewide, which are city or county programs, and which publish contact details.
TexasTexas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits
Texas has no statewide STR license, but its hotel occupancy tax applies to rented houses and condos too, so rentals appear on the tax permit roll. How to read it, separate rentals from hotels, and use it by city.
WisconsinWisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data
Wisconsin licenses short-term rentals statewide as tourist rooming houses, and the license file carries a phone or email on most records. What is in it and where the rentals are.
ComparisonPropStream Alternative for Short-Term Rental Owner Leads
What PropStream offers, its published prices, what its public pages say about short-term rentals, and how STR permit registers fill the gap.
ComparisonAirDNA Alternative for Short-Term Rental Owner Contacts
AirDNA now sells owner contact lookups to property managers. How that compares with public STR permit registers, what each costs, and when to use both.
ComparisonBatchLeads Alternative for Short-Term Rental Owner Leads
BatchLeads and BatchData skip-trace any owner but do not describe a way to find short-term rentals. How STR permit registers compare, with published prices.
ComparisonMashvisor Alternative for Finding Short-Term Rental Owners
Mashvisor estimates what rentals earn; its pages describe no owner contacts. How STR permit registers name the owners, and how agents and investors use both.
ComparisonDealMachine Alternative for Short-Term Rental Owner Leads
DealMachine finds owners and contact details for any address. What it costs, why it works best with a list of STRs to start from, and how permit registers supply one.
ComparisonPropertyRadar Alternative for Short-Term Rental Owner Leads
PropertyRadar's owner data, prices and do-not-call filters, compared with public STR permit registers, plus a worked Boulder example that uses both.
ComparisonVintory Alternative for Short-Term Rental Owner Leads
Vintory sells STR-verified owner data and campaigns to vacation rental managers. How it compares with buying the public permit register, with published prices.
Research and data
Original counts from 100 government registers, free to cite. All studies and CSV downloads
Short-Term Rental Permit Statistics: U.S. Registers in 2026
How many short-term rentals are on public permit registers, where they are, how many registers publish a phone or email, and what share of permits are active, expired or pending. Counted from 100 government registers.
TrendsNew Short-Term Rental Permit Filings, 2024 to 2026
Are more people registering short-term rentals, or fewer? January to September filings in the registers that keep their full history, plus the markets where the most permits on file are less than a year old.
OwnershipWho Holds Short-Term Rental Permits: People, Companies and Trusts
The share of permits held in a company's name, a trust or a person's name, register by register, and what Nashville's and New Orleans' permit types say about investors and owner-occupiers.
Building lead-generation software
Costs, legality, sources and how to hire for it — for anyone weighing a build against another subscription. What we build →
How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost?
What actually drives the number: sources, formats, volume, verification depth and where the output has to land. Plus what a $1500 build really includes.
DecisionBuild or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription
Buying a list, renting a platform and building a pipeline are three different products. An even-handed framework for deciding which one your situation actually calls for.
ComplianceIs Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation
Collection is rarely where companies get hurt. Access method and outreach are. A plain-English map of where the legal risk actually sits.
Reference12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads
Every state, county and licensing board publishes business events daily. What each source contains, who it's a lead source for, and where each one falls short.
PlaybookHow to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software
The screening questions that matter, the contract terms that decide who owns what, and the red flags that mean walk away.
The data behind the guides.
283,611 permit records across the U.S. — 127,924 with a phone or email.