# Lead Mining Company: full text of the main pages > Generated from the live pages on 2026-10-08. Map of every page: https://leadminingcompany.com/llms.txt --- ## Lead Mining Company — STR permit leads and custom-mined B2B lists. URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/ STR permit leads · custom B2B lists # We mine business leads like ore. Short-term-rental operators straight from government permit registers — 275,665 records in 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Plus custom-mined B2B lists for any industry and any U.S. market. No fluff, no fake data, no consumer lists. Get STR permit leads → See real records Selling to another industry? Build a custom B2B list or see industries. 275,665STR permit records 111,698with phone or email 26states covered $99a month for one state Flagship · PermitPulse™ ## Verified short-term-rental permit leads. Every record is a real host who filed for a short-term-rental permit — pulled from official government registers, not scraped from Airbnb. Owner name, property address, permit ID, and phone or email where it is in the public record. Live sample · newest in the database Phones and emails masked here Newest PermitPulse records with a phone or email, masked OwnerCityPermit typeFiledPhoneEmail Loading the newest records… The newest rows in the database that carry a phone or email. Individual owners are shortened and contact details are masked here; the download has every field in full. Built for STR cleaning & turnover, insurance, PMS software, co-hosting, lenders, furniture & setup, tax & accounting — and marketing agencies. See PermitPulse → From $99/mo — or $149 to own the file Popular markets: New Orleans · Nashville · Seattle · San Diego · Austin · Orlando & Kissimmee By state: Florida · Texas · Louisiana · Tennessee · Washington · California · Wisconsin · Colorado · Oregon · Arizona · Illinois · Kentucky · Georgia · Ohio · North Carolina · South Carolina · Minnesota · Michigan · Hawaii · Pennsylvania · New Mexico · Nevada · Massachusetts Explore the data: all cities · public register pages · records added this week · research and statistics PermitPulse plans 275,665 records One state, monthlyEvery record for the state you pick, filtered and exported as you need it. $99per month State Choose a state Arizona · 4,661California · 21,147Colorado · 9,781Florida · 52,029Georgia · 2,125Hawaii · 1,473Illinois · 4,176Kentucky · 3,977Louisiana · 33,991Massachusetts · 499Michigan · 1,479Minnesota · 1,578Nevada · 765New Mexico · 905North Carolina · 1,731Ohio · 1,923Oregon · 6,907Pennsylvania · 1,320South Carolina · 1,716Tennessee · 33,509Texas · 47,323Washington · 29,596Wisconsin · 12,919 Subscribe → All 26 states, monthlyThe whole database, up to 50,000 records exported a month. $299per month Subscribe to all states Buy a file onceOne state $149, or all 26 states for $499. Re-download anytime. $149from, once Buy a download - Built from official STR permit registers - CSV download right after checkout - Card payment through Stripe Or have us build the rig ## Custom lead generation software, from $1,500. Buying a list solves this month. A build solves every month after it. We write the scraper, the pipeline and the database against your sources and your segment — then hand you the code and the keys. ### Lead Scraper Development A scraper built for one job: your sources, your fields, your filters — running on a schedule and dropping clean records where your team already works. Read more → ### Custom Web Scraping Services Public web data, extracted properly: parsed, deduplicated, verified and delivered in a format your team can work the same morning. Read more → ### Data Enrichment & Verification Take the list you already have, fill the gaps from public sources, kill the dead records, and keep it that way on a schedule. Read more → ### Custom Lead Database A private database of your market — built once from public sources, kept current automatically, searchable by the people who have to call it. Read more → What we build → Scope a build Metro pages: Atlanta · Austin · Baltimore · Boise · Boston · Charlotte · Chicago · Cincinnati ## How the mine works Tell us the industry and the market. Our rigs sweep public business directories, map data and the open web, verify every listing is live, and hand you a clean, current contact list — any industry, any U.S. market. Four stages between public business data and a list your team can work. 10industries on the menu 50U.S. states covered 250+records per list 1–3day delivery - 01 ### Survey We point the rigs at your target — an industry (or several) and a geography. They sweep public business directories, map and places data, and business pages across the open web. - 02 ### Drill We pull the matching businesses: name, category, address, publicly-listed phone, website and email where it's posted. Filter by trade, type, metro or ZIP — even “weak or no website only”. - 03 ### Refine We dedupe, drop dead listings, and verify each business is real and reachable before it ships. No invented revenue, no fake “scores”, no consumer data — just clean business contacts. - 04 ### Deliver You get a tidy CSV by email, usually within 1–3 business days. Pay per record with automatic volume discounts. Order online in minutes. Build your list →See the full process → ## 10 veins, one mine Ten B2B industries we mine deep — or name your own. If it's a kind of business that exists in public data, we can build the list. Small Business Lists Any industry, any U.S. market — built to your exact spec. MCA & Funding Prospects Small businesses in funding-active industries — the list, ready to dial. Equipment-Intensive Businesses Operators who run on equipment — construction, transport, medical, restaurant. Factoring & Receivables Prospects B2B companies that invoice other businesses — freight, staffing, manufacturing. SBA & Term-Loan Prospects Established small businesses by industry and location. Restaurants & Hospitality Independent restaurants, cafes, bars, caterers and small hotels. Medical & Dental Practices Private practices, clinics and specialty offices. Contractors & Trade Businesses Roofers, HVAC, plumbers, electricians, landscapers, pool and solar installers. Trucking & Logistics Carriers, owner-operators, freight brokers and warehousing. Professional Services Law firms, accounting offices, agencies, consultants, real-estate brokerages. Flagship vein ## Small business lists. Built for your offer. The most flexible product we make. Name the industry and the market — bakeries in Austin, auto shops across Florida, independent gyms in Denver — and we mine a fresh, verified list of those businesses. Perfect when your target isn't a preset on our menu. Every list arrives as a clean CSV with business name, category, address, phone, website and (where public) email — plus a flag for businesses with a weak or missing website, the ones most likely to need what you sell. Build a small-business list → // example record format - Business name & category - Street address, city, state, ZIP - Publicly-listed phone - Website URL (or “no website found”) - Email where publicly posted - Website-quality flag (modern / weak / none) Get a live price → ## The mine is self-serve. No sales calls. PermitPulse data downloads the moment you check out. Custom B2B lists: spec the list, see the price update live, check out securely, and we email the CSV within 1–3 business days. See pricing Build your list --- ## About Lead Mining Company | STR Permit Data and B2B Lists URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/about/ # About Lead Mining Company Lead Mining Company is a U.S. data company. We turn public records into lists businesses can work: short-term rental permit records first, and custom B2B lists and lead-generation software for everything else. ## What we make - PermitPulse™: 275,665 short-term rental (Airbnb and vacation rental) permit and license records from 76 city, county and state registers in 26 states. 111,698 include a phone or email that the register published. Sold by state or nationally, by subscription or as a one-time download (pricing). - B2B lists: lists of businesses in a given industry and area, mined to order from public directories and the open web. - Custom lead-generation software: scrapers, public-records pipelines and lead databases built for one company, from $1,500. The client keeps the code. ## Where the data comes from PermitPulse is built from records that governments publish: permit registers, license files and tax rolls. Software collects each register on a schedule, keeps the first full copy as a baseline and marks every later row as new, so buyers can pull only the permits filed since their last download. Every count on this site is read from that database when the site is built, last on 2026-10-08. We do not collect data from Airbnb, Vrbo or other booking sites, and we do not collect anything that sits behind a login or a paywall. Layers that turn out not to be permits, such as zoning maps or parcel lists, are taken out of the data and out of the counts. ## Research Because the database covers so many registers, it can answer questions no single city can: how many short-term rentals are on public registers, how fast new permits are being filed, and who holds them. We publish those counts as free studies with CSV downloads, licensed for reuse with credit. ## How the data may be used Each subscription or download is licensed to the buyer's own business and may not be resold. Many permit phone numbers are personal cell phones, so buyers must follow the TCPA, Do Not Call rules and state telemarketing laws, and must never present themselves as the city or permit office. The full rules are in the terms and license and the guide to contacting owners legally. ## Corrections Registers contain errors, and so can we. If a record or a number on this site is wrong, email info@leadminingcompany.com with the page or record and we will check it against the source register. ## Contact Lead Mining Company, 11133 Shady Trail, Dallas, TX 75229. Email info@leadminingcompany.com. We work online and serve businesses across the United States. --- ## PermitPulse — 275,665 Verified Short-Term-Rental Permit Leads | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/permitpulse/ PermitPulse™ · verified STR permit data # Verified short-term-rental permit leads. 275,665 short-term-rental permits, pulled straight from official government registers across 26 states. 111,698 come with a phone or email attached. A verified operator with a permit on file is a far better lead than a scraped Airbnb listing. 275,665permit records 111,698with phone or email 26states covered - Owner name, property address and permit ID on every record - One state from $99/month, or $149 for a state file once - Self-serve: create an account, pay by card, download the CSV See the newest records ↓ Browse coverage by state Counts refreshed 2026-10-08 · 23,590 records filed in the last 12 months. PermitPulse plans 275,665 records One state, monthlyEvery record for the state you pick, filtered and exported as you need it. $99per month State Choose a state Arizona · 4,661California · 21,147Colorado · 9,781Florida · 52,029Georgia · 2,125Hawaii · 1,473Illinois · 4,176Kentucky · 3,977Louisiana · 33,991Massachusetts · 499Michigan · 1,479Minnesota · 1,578Nevada · 765New Mexico · 905North Carolina · 1,731Ohio · 1,923Oregon · 6,907Pennsylvania · 1,320South Carolina · 1,716Tennessee · 33,509Texas · 47,323Washington · 29,596Wisconsin · 12,919 Subscribe → All 26 states, monthlyThe whole database, up to 50,000 records exported a month. $299per month Subscribe to all states Buy a file onceOne state $149, or all 26 states for $499. Re-download anytime. $149from, once Buy a download - Built from official STR permit registers - CSV download right after checkout - Card payment through Stripe ## The newest records in PermitPulse Real rows from the database, filtered to records that carry a phone or email. Individual owners are shortened and contact details are masked on this page; your download has every field in full. Live sample · newest in the database Phones and emails masked here Newest PermitPulse records with a phone or email, masked OwnerCityPermit typeFiledPhoneEmail Loading the newest records… Of the 275,665 records, 111,698 include a phone or email — 109,909 with a phone and 49,958 with an email. Contact coverage varies by state, because it depends entirely on what each government register chooses to publish; every state page tells you which kind of file you are getting before you buy. One row of the CSV ### What's in every record - Owner or host nameowner_name - Business name, when a company filedbusiness_name - Property address and ZIPproperty_address - City, county and statecity · county - Permit IDpermit_id - Permit type and statuspermit_type - Filing date, where publishedfiled_date - Phone, where the register has onephone - Email, where the register has oneemail - Date we first saw the permitfirst_seen_at Pulled from the public permit filing, normalized into clean fields. ## What PermitPulse is A single, current dataset of licensed short-term-rental operators — the people who filed for a permit to run an Airbnb, Vrbo or other short-term rental. Every record is built from public government records: official short-term-rental permit and licensing registers, not scraped from listing sites. That means you get the operator's real name and property address, the permit itself, and a phone or email where the public record includes one. It is the difference between a page you can look at and a person you can reach. It is not an occupancy or revenue estimator. If you are researching a market to buy property, that is what AirDNA is for. PermitPulse is for the companies that sell to the operators — the ones who need to reach thousands of active, licensed hosts directly. If you're new to this kind of data, start with STR permit records, explained. Read before you buy ### Guides written from this data - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally All guides ## Who buys PermitPulse If you sell a product or service to short-term-rental operators, this is your prospect list. ### Cleaning & turnover services Reach licensed hosts who need reliable turnovers between guests, by city and county. ### STR insurance Short-term-rental policies for owners who have just registered a property. ### Property-management software (PMS) New and scaling hosts shopping for booking, pricing and channel-management tools. ### Co-hosts & property managers Owners with a permit but no time to manage — your ideal management contract. See the owner-acquisition playbook. ### Lenders Operators financing furnishing, renovation or a second unit. ### Furniture & setup companies Newly permitted units that still need to be furnished, staged and stocked. ### Tax & accounting firms Hosts who need lodging-tax filing, bookkeeping and Schedule E help. ### Marketing agencies Direct-booking sites, photography and listing optimization for permitted hosts. ## Why permit holders beat scraped listings Generic listing-scrapers and resold broker files can't give you this. ### Government-verified operators A permit is a public signal that someone is actively, legally running a short-term rental. A scraped listing is just a page — no verified name, no address, no way to reach the owner directly. ### Direct contact, not a platform handle You get the owner's name, property address, and a phone or email where it's on record — not an Airbnb alias hidden behind a booking form. ### Primary source, not a recycled file This is pulled fresh from the government registers themselves, not a stale list that ten data brokers have already resold. ### Built for sellers, not investors Investors buy AirDNA to model revenue. PermitPulse is for companies that need to reach the operators themselves, at scale. Full comparison of the options → ## Simple pricing Subscribe monthly to keep the file current, or buy it outright once and keep it forever. ### Single state $99/mo One state of your choice, refreshed monthly. - Every permit record for one state - All fields, including phone/email where present - Export up to 10,000 records a month - Cancel anytime Choose a state Most popular ### National $299/mo All 26 states — every one of the 275,665 records. - Full national dataset - Filter by state, city and contactability - Export up to 50,000 records a month - Monthly refresh · cancel anytime Get national access ### One-time download $149 / $499 Buy the file and keep it — one state for $149, all 26 states for $499. - Flat price, every matching record - Re-download as often as you like - No subscription, internal-use license Buy a download ### API / white-label from $1,500/mo Programmatic access, or embed the data inside your own product. - REST API access - White-label by written agreement - Volume & refresh options Contact sales Already have an account? Sign in. Not sure which plan fits? The pricing page compares them side by side. ## 26 states. 275,665 records. Idaho and Iowa are excluded — both states preempted local STR permitting, so the registers don't exist there. Browse coverage by state, or start with the biggest markets. See all coverage → Florida Texas Louisiana Tennessee Washington California ### Compliance PermitPulse records come from official government permit and licensing registers — public records — and are provided as business contact data for B2B outreach, as published: we don't verify phones or emails. You are responsible for your own TCPA, CAN-SPAM, and state and federal Do-Not-Call compliance when contacting anyone on a list; our compliance guide covers the basics. Idaho and Iowa are excluded from every list we sell. ## Reach every licensed host in your market. Start with one state or take the whole country. Subscribe, or buy the file once and keep it. Get national access See pricing PermitPulse · 275,665 recordsOne state $99/mo · all states $299/mo Choose a plan --- ## Pricing — PermitPulse & custom lists | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/pricing/ # Simple pricing. PermitPulse™ — verified short-term-rental permit leads — is a monthly subscription or a one-time download, for one state or all 26. Custom-mined B2B lists are pay-per-record. Both below. ## PermitPulse — STR permit leads 275,665 verified permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Filter and export the segment you need. One state Any covered state. Florida, the largest, has 52,029 records. Monthly $99/mo - Full access to one state - Filter + export to CSV - Up to 10,000 records / month - Cancel anytime Subscribe to one state → One-time download $149once - Every record in the state you pick - All fields, including phone and email where public - Instant CSV download, yours to keep - Re-download anytime — no expiry Buy a state file → Best value All 26 states The whole database: 275,665 records. Monthly $299/mo - All 26 states - Filter across the whole database - Up to 50,000 records / month - Cancel anytime Subscribe to all states → One-time download $499once - All 275,665 records in one file - 111,698 with a phone or email - Instant CSV download, yours to keep - Re-download anytime — no expiry Buy the national file → API / white-label For products that need the data inside them. Tell us the states, the volume and how often you need it refreshed. Monthly from $1,500/mo - Data feed into your product - Or resell under your brand - Per-record licensing available - Written agreement Talk to us → One market, worked every month Take one state, monthly. New permits are filed all year, and the subscription keeps you on the current register. Every record in a state, today Take the $149 download. It holds the whole state file at once, where the monthly plan exports up to 10,000 records a month. Selling nationally Take all 26 states: $299 a month to stay current, or $499 for the full national file once. Prices in USD. Subscriptions renew monthly and can be canceled anytime from your billing portal; partial months are not refunded. Idaho and Iowa are excluded, and you are responsible for your own TCPA, CAN-SPAM and Do-Not-Call compliance — see our Terms. A one-time download is a snapshot of the database on the day you take it, licensed for your own internal use — you can work it forever, but it does not update itself. If you want the file to stay current as new permits are filed, take a subscription instead. No subscription, no per-record pricing, no seat limits on downloads. Full terms: license and compliance. ## How buying works - Create an account Email and a password. We email you a 6-digit code to confirm the address. - Pay by card Checkout runs on Stripe. Subscriptions renew monthly; a download is a single charge. - Download the CSV Filter by city, contactability and filing date, then export. Come back and download again whenever you like. ### Per-record price by industry IndustryPrice / recordExample: 1,000 records* Small Business Lists $0.30 /record $270 MCA & Funding Prospects $0.45 /record $405 Equipment-Intensive Businesses $0.45 /record $405 Factoring & Receivables Prospects $0.50 /record $450 SBA & Term-Loan Prospects $0.45 /record $405 Restaurants & Hospitality $0.35 /record $315 Medical & Dental Practices $0.50 /record $450 Contractors & Trade Businesses $0.40 /record $360 Trucking & Logistics $0.45 /record $405 Professional Services $0.45 /record $405 *1,000 records shown with the automatic 10% volume discount applied. Custom industries, larger volumes, or extra appended fields are quoted in the configurator or by request. Every list is covered by our re-mine-and-replace policy — see how it works. Custom B2B lists ### How list pricing works - Priced per delivered record, minimum 250 - Volume discounts up to 20%, applied automatically - Mined to order and sent as a CSV by email - No subscriptions, no contracts Get a live quote ## The exact price is always live in the configurator. Set the industry, market and size and the quote updates in real time — volume discount included. Get a live quote Talk to us --- ## Short-Term Rental Research and Data | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/research/ # Short-Term Rental Research and Data Original counts from 76 U.S. city, county and state short-term rental registers: 275,665 permit and license records in 26 states, counted 2026-10-08. Free to quote and reuse with credit. Statistics ## 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 76 government registers. PermitPulse counts 275,665 short-term rental permit and license records on 76 public government registers in 26 U.S. states, as of 2026-10-08. Trends ## New 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. In the 5 registers that keep their full filing history, 3,202 new short-term rental permits were filed from January to September 2026, against 3,020 in the same months of 2025 and 3,782 in 2024. Ownership ## Who 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. Across 19 registers that name the legal holder, 32% of 150,469 short-term rental permits are held in a company's name (LLC, corporation or partnership) and 2% in a trust. ## Download the data Aggregate counts only: no names, addresses, phone numbers or emails. Free under CC BY 4.0; credit "Lead Mining Company, PermitPulse data" with a link to the study. FileWhat it holds str-permits-by-state.csvRecords per state, with phone, with email, pending, filed in the last 12 months str-permits-by-market.csvThe same counts for 30 short-term rental markets str-permit-filings-by-month.csvNew filings per month, 2024 to 2026, in the registers that keep full history str-permit-filings-by-register.csvJanuary to September filings per register, 2024, 2025 and 2026 str-permit-holders-by-register.csvPermits held by companies, trusts and people, per register ## How the counts are made Every number comes from public short-term rental permit, license and registration files that U.S. cities, counties and states publish. Lead Mining Company collects them for its PermitPulse™ database and counts them directly; nothing is estimated, surveyed or scraped from booking sites. Map layers that turned out not to be permits (zoning maps, parcel layers, listing heatmaps) are excluded. Idaho and Iowa have no registers to count, because state law preempts local short-term rental permitting there. Related reference pages: which cities and states publish registers, permit rules by state and the glossary of permit terms. --- ## Short-Term Rental Permit Statistics (2026) | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/research/short-term-rental-permit-statistics/ On this page Key findings Records by stateThe largest marketsHow many records include a phone or emailActive, expired and pending permitsHow new the records areStates with no registers to countMethodLimits How to cite 275,665 Permit records from 76 government registers in 26 states. Download the data (CSV) - Research - Statistics # 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 76 government registers. Data as of 2026-10-08 · 5 min read · by Lead Mining Company ## Key findings - PermitPulse counts 275,665 short-term rental permit and license records on 76 public government registers in 26 U.S. states, as of 2026-10-08. - Florida has the most records of any state: 52,029, or 19% of the total. The five largest states hold 71% of all records. - 40% of the records carry a phone number and 18% an email address; 59% carry neither, because the register publishes only a name and address. - Of the records whose register publishes a status, 49% are active or issued, 29% are expired, inactive, cancelled or revoked, 2.3% are pending or waitlisted and 4.7% were denied or withdrawn. - 23,590 records were filed in the 12 months before 2026-10-08. - The markets with the most records are New Orleans (33,579 records) and Nashville (32,925), followed by Seattle (16,725). - Idaho and Iowa have no local short-term rental permit registers, because state law preempts local permitting. On this page Records by stateThe largest marketsHow many records include a phone or emailActive, expired and pending permitsHow new the records areStates with no registers to countMethodLimits No agency keeps a national count of short-term rental permits. Each city, county or state that regulates Airbnb-style rentals runs its own register, and only some publish it. This study adds up the ones that do: 275,665 permit and license records from 76 public registers in 26 states, counted on 2026-10-08. A record is one row in a register: a permit, a license, a registration or an application. It is not the same as one rental. Some registers keep every renewal and every expired permit, and some cities publish more than one register, so a single home can appear more than once. The method section explains what that does to the numbers. ## Records by state Florida, Texas and Louisiana hold the most records. Three files cover a whole state: Florida and Wisconsin license short-term rentals statewide, and Texas rentals appear on the state's hotel occupancy tax roll. Everywhere else the count is the sum of the city and county registers that publish data. StateRecordsWith phoneWith emailPhone or email Florida52,02938,71046074% Texas47,323000% Louisiana33,99129,18728,83986% Tennessee33,509000% Washington29,5968638663% California21,14717,89910185% Wisconsin12,91911,27112,45398% Colorado9,781000% Oregon6,907000% Arizona4,6613,94887985% Illinois4,176000% Kentucky3,9772,4562,45963% Georgia2,1251,4931,49370% Ohio1,9231,8301,10598% North Carolina1,731000% South Carolina1,716000% Minnesota1,57880391859% Michigan1,4791,147078% Hawaii1,473000% Pennsylvania1,320000% New Mexico905000% Nevada76527527836% Massachusetts499000% Smaller files (under 400 records): Utah (69), Maine (47), Missouri (19). ## The largest markets Cities and resort areas with the most records on file, counting every register that covers them. New Orleans' count spans its three registers (applications, active licenses and non-commercial licenses), so it includes the same home more than once. MarketRecordsPhone or email New Orleans, LA33,57929,170 Nashville, TN32,9250 Seattle, WA16,7253 San Diego, CA8,8188,818 Austin, TX7,5530 Orlando & Kissimmee, FL5,8434,484 Big Bear & Joshua Tree, CA5,2105,209 Denver, CO5,0660 Portland, OR4,5270 Chicago, IL4,1760 Panama City Beach, FL3,8943,249 Fort Lauderdale & Broward, FL3,8302,759 Miami & Miami Beach, FL3,5862,703 Destin & 30A, FL3,3462,654 Port Aransas, TX3,0760 Among towns with their own page, the largest are Kissimmee, FL (2,788), Davenport, FL (2,397), Miami, FL (1,792), Hollywood, FL (1,339), Santa Rosa Beach, FL (1,132), St. Augustine, FL (1,088), leaving out Texas towns, whose tax roll also counts hotels. Every town with 100 or more records has its own page in the city index. ## How many records include a phone or email 40% of all records carry a phone number (109,909) and 18% an email address (49,958). The other 59% (163,967) carry a name and an address but no contact details, because the register does not publish them. Whether a phone appears depends almost entirely on the register, not on the owner. States whose files include a phone or email on the largest share of records: - Ohio: 98% of 1,923 records - Wisconsin: 98% of 12,919 records - Louisiana: 86% of 33,991 records - Arizona: 85% of 4,661 records - California: 85% of 21,147 records - Michigan: 78% of 1,479 records Files that publish almost no contact details include Texas, Tennessee, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, Hawaii, Pennsylvania. Those lists work for direct mail; the direct mail guide covers how. ## Active, expired and pending permits 67% of records come from a register that publishes a status. Grouping those statuses into five plain categories: StatusRecordsShare Active, issued, approved or renewed90,57449% Expired, inactive, cancelled, closed or revoked54,54429% Pending, under review or waitlisted4,2682.3% Denied or withdrawn8,7584.7% Other wording (permit classes, compliance notes)27,79515% Expired permits are common because registers like Nashville's and New Orleans' keep their whole history. A pending application is the newest kind of record: a homeowner who has applied and is waiting. The pending versus granted guide explains why businesses that sell to hosts watch them closely. ## How new the records are 23,590 records were filed in the 12 months before 2026-10-08, counting only registers that publish a filing date. Florida's state license file, the largest in the set, publishes no filing date, so the figure leaves it out. Filing trends year over year are in the companion study, new short-term rental permit filings, 2024 to 2026, and the records added each week are listed on the fresh records page. ## States with no registers to count Idaho and Iowa have none. Idaho Code §67-6539 (House Bill 583, effective July 1, 2026) and Iowa Code §414.1 stop local governments from requiring short-term rental permits, so the registers other states publish do not exist there. The Idaho and Iowa guide has the detail. In many other places a permit program exists but publishes nothing downloadable. Several large Texas and Tennessee cities fall in that group, which is why Texas is counted through the state tax roll instead. The state-by-state guide lists where permits are required. ## Method - Sources. Public permit, license and registration files from U.S. cities, counties and states, collected for the PermitPulse™ database. Nothing comes from Airbnb, Vrbo or other booking sites. - What is excluded. Map layers that are not permits (zoning maps, parcel layers, listing heatmaps, lists of unlicensed rentals) and rows filed under the wrong state. - Counting. Each register row counts once. Contact counts include a phone or email only when the register itself published it. - Status groups. Statuses are grouped by their wording as published. Florida's license file uses number codes; code 20 is counted as active and codes 45 to 47 as not current. - Date. All figures were counted on 2026-10-08 and refresh each time the site is rebuilt. ## Limits - Records are not rentals. New Orleans publishes separate registers for applications, active licenses and non-commercial licenses, and Denver, Louisville and Nashville each have two published layers, so one property can be counted more than once. Registers that keep renewals also repeat the same home. - Coverage follows regulation. Places without a permit program, or with one that publishes nothing, add zero. The totals undercount short-term rentals in those places. - Texas includes hotels. The Texas hotel occupancy tax roll covers every taxable lodging business, so it holds hotels and motels next to rented houses and condos. - Contact details are as filed. Phones and emails are what owners gave the government. They are not checked, so some are out of date. ## How to cite this study You may quote these figures and reuse the downloadable counts under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Please credit Lead Mining Company and link to this page. Lead Mining Company. “Short-Term Rental Permit Statistics: U.S. Registers in 2026.” PermitPulse data, 2026-10-08. https://leadminingcompany.com/research/short-term-rental-permit-statistics/ Data: str-permits-by-state.csv. All downloads: research data. Figures refresh when the site is rebuilt from the database; the date above is the date of the count. ## The records behind the counts PermitPulse™ is the database these studies count: 275,665 short-term rental permit records with the holder's name, the rental address and, where the register publishes it, a phone or email. From $99/month for one state, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse Browse coverage by state Research - New Short-Term Rental Permit Filings, 2024 to 2026 - Who Holds Short-Term Rental Permits: People, Companies and Trusts - All studies and data Related guides - Which cities and states publish STR registers - STR permit records, explained - Finding owners with several rentals - STR permits by state --- ## New STR Permit Filings, 2024 to 2026 | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/research/str-permit-filing-trends/ On this page Key findings Filings by register, January to SeptemberMonth by monthWhere the most permits on file are newWhy only these registersLimitsWhat it means for businesses that sell to hosts How to cite 275,665 Permit records from 76 government registers in 26 states. Download the data (CSV) - Research - Trends # New 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. Data as of 2026-10-08 · 3 min read · by Lead Mining Company ## Key findings - In the 5 registers that keep their full filing history, 3,202 new short-term rental permits were filed from January to September 2026, against 3,020 in the same months of 2025 and 3,782 in 2024. - New Orleans permit applications: 1,523 filings from January to September 2026, up 31% from 1,160 in the same months of 2025. - Boulder County licenses: 131 filings from January to September 2026, up 30% from 101 in the same months of 2025. - Philadelphia limited lodging licenses: 182 filings from January to September 2026, up 22% from 149 in the same months of 2025. - Portland accessory short-term rental permits: 429 filings from January to September 2026, down 23% from 555 in the same months of 2025. - Nashville short-term rental permits: 937 filings from January to September 2026, down 11% from 1,055 in the same months of 2025. - Chicago has the youngest file of the markets tracked: 83% of its 4,176 registered short-term rentals were filed in the last 12 months. On this page Filings by register, January to SeptemberMonth by monthWhere the most permits on file are newWhy only these registersLimitsWhat it means for businesses that sell to hosts Across the 5 registers that keep a complete filing history, 3,202 new short-term rental permits were filed from January to September 2026: 6% more than the 3,020 filed in the same months of 2025, and 15% fewer than the 3,782 of 2024. The total hides markets moving in opposite directions. ## Filings by register, January to September Register2024202520262026 vs 2025 Nashville short-term rental permits1,4921,055937-11% New Orleans permit applications9931,1601,523+31% Portland accessory short-term rental permits990555429-23% Philadelphia limited lodging licenses205149182+22% Boulder County licenses102101131+30% All 53,7823,0203,202+6% Rising: New Orleans permit applications (+31%), Boulder County licenses (+30%), Philadelphia limited lodging licenses (+22%). Falling: Portland accessory short-term rental permits (-23%), Nashville short-term rental permits (-11%). The registers do not record why filings change; local rule changes, enforcement drives and demand all move these numbers, so read a change as a fact about filings, not about the rental market as a whole. ## Month by month New filings per month in the same registers. Bars are scaled to the busiest month in the three years. Month2024202520262026 compared with 2025 and 2024 Jan283423209 Feb378189190 Mar351207341 Apr358382562 May546314341 Jun645663308 Jul270241565 Aug440210312 Sep511391374 Oct656189 Nov284219 Dec246297 Filings come in waves rather than a smooth line. A city that opens a renewal window, changes its rules or starts enforcing them can double a month's count. October to December 2026 fill in as the registers publish them. ## Where the most permits on file are new A second way to see where hosts are signing up: the share of a market's records filed in the last 12 months. This uses every market whose registers publish a filing date and that has at least 100 recent filings. Texas markets are left out because the state tax roll also counts hotels. MarketRecordsFiled in last 12 monthsShare Chicago, IL4,1763,46883% Louisville, KY2,5181,21048% Traverse City, MI1,47957039% Big Bear & Joshua Tree, CA5,21097419% New Orleans, LA33,5796,19118% Philadelphia, PA1,32021817% Portland, OR4,52758613% Sonoma County, CA2,4101426% Nashville, TN32,9251,2454% Denver, CO5,0661753% Read the top of this table with care. Chicago's public file lists active registrations only, so registrations that lapsed are not in it and most of its rows are recent by design. Markets whose registers keep every old permit, like Nashville, look older than they are. ## Why only these registers A register can only show a trend if it keeps its old rows. Many publish current permits only: when a permit expires, it disappears. Counted by year, such a register always looks like it is growing, because last year's permits have been deleted. This study uses a register only if all of these hold: - at least 5% of its rows are expired, inactive, denied or withdrawn, which shows it keeps history; - its earliest filing date is before 2024; - its latest filing date is on or after August 1, 2026, so 2026 is not cut short by a stale feed; - it had at least 100 filings in the 2024 and 2025 windows combined. The windows are January 1 to September 30 of each year, so 2026 compares like for like. A filing date is the application or issue date as the register publishes it. ## Limits - Five registers are not the country. The set covers the cities whose registers pass the tests above. Large statewide files (Florida, Wisconsin) publish no filing date and cannot be trended. - Registers revise. A city can withdraw, merge or backfill rows. Counts are as published on 2026-10-08. - Applications are not approvals. The New Orleans register counts applications, including ones later denied. ## What it means for businesses that sell to hosts New filings are new hosts: people furnishing a home, looking for cleaners, insurance, a manager or a lender. Markets where filings are rising have more of them each month. Pending and newly issued permits are the records to work first; the pending versus granted guide explains the timing, and the fresh records page lists what was added to the database each week. ## How to cite this study You may quote these figures and reuse the downloadable counts under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Please credit Lead Mining Company and link to this page. Lead Mining Company. “New Short-Term Rental Permit Filings, 2024 to 2026.” PermitPulse data, 2026-10-08. https://leadminingcompany.com/research/str-permit-filing-trends/ Data: str-permit-filings-by-month.csv. All downloads: research data. Figures refresh when the site is rebuilt from the database; the date above is the date of the count. ## The records behind the counts PermitPulse™ is the database these studies count: 275,665 short-term rental permit records with the holder's name, the rental address and, where the register publishes it, a phone or email. From $99/month for one state, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse Browse coverage by state Research - Short-Term Rental Permit Statistics: U.S. Registers in 2026 - Who Holds Short-Term Rental Permits: People, Companies and Trusts - All studies and data Related guides - Which cities and states publish STR registers - STR permit records, explained - Finding owners with several rentals - STR permits by state --- ## Who Holds Short-Term Rental Permits | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/research/who-holds-short-term-rental-permits/ On this page Key findings How the names were sortedCompany, trust and person shares by registerRegisters that name a host instead of the ownerNashville: investor homes and large buildingsNew Orleans: commercial and residential ownersTrusts in mountain and resort townsWhat the shares mean for outreachLimits How to cite 275,665 Permit records from 76 government registers in 26 states. Download the data (CSV) - Research - Ownership # Who 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. Data as of 2026-10-08 · 4 min read · by Lead Mining Company ## Key findings - Across 19 registers that name the legal holder, 32% of 150,469 short-term rental permits are held in a company's name (LLC, corporation or partnership) and 2% in a trust. - In Florida's statewide license file, 44% of 49,709 vacation rental licenses are held by a company. - In Wisconsin's statewide tourist rooming house file, 43% of 12,918 licenses name a company. - In Nashville, 43 names hold 50 or more permits each, 5,310 permits in all (17% of the register); 41 of those 43 names are companies. - 63% of Nashville's owner-occupied and non-owner-occupied permits are for homes the owner does not live in. - In New Orleans, 57% of 'commercial owner' permit applications are in a company's name, against 1.8% of 'residential owner' applications. On this page How the names were sortedCompany, trust and person shares by registerRegisters that name a host instead of the ownerNashville: investor homes and large buildingsNew Orleans: commercial and residential ownersTrusts in mountain and resort townsWhat the shares mean for outreachLimits Most short-term rental permits are in a person's name, but a large minority are not. Across 19 public registers that name the legal holder, 32% of 150,469 permits are held by a company (an LLC, corporation or partnership) and 2% by a trust. The share swings from a few percent to nearly half depending on the place, as of 2026-10-08. ## How the names were sorted Each register prints a holder name: the owner, licensee or applicant. We sorted those names into three groups by their wording, exactly as printed: - Company: the name contains LLC, Inc., Corp., LP, LLLP, Ltd., PLLC or "Company". - Trust: the name contains Trust, Trustee, TR or TRS, and no company word. - Person: everything else. A register only counts here if it names the holder on at least 80% of 500 or more rows, and if its names include companies or trusts at all. Registers that print a host's or applicant's personal name instead of the legal owner are listed separately below. ## Company, trust and person shares by register RegisterNamed permitsCompanyTrustPerson Florida vacation rental licenses (DBPR, statewide)49,70944%1%55% Wisconsin tourist rooming house licenses (statewide)12,91843%2%55% Nashville short-term rental permits31,67239%2%59% Traverse City vacation home rentals1,46028%0%72% Summit County licenses (Breckenridge)2,29725%14%61% Louisville Metro registrations1,51325%3%72% New Orleans active licenses4,30322%0%78% New Orleans permit applications28,03917%0%82% San Juan County vacation rental permits75517%0%83% Isle of Palms licenses1,71614%6%80% San Bernardino County permits (Big Bear, Joshua Tree)5,21013%1%87% Denver short-term rental licenses2,3519%6%85% Boulder County licenses4827%14%79% Minneapolis licenses9136%0%94% Sonoma County vacation rental permits2,3305%2%93% Bend short-term rental permits1,2415%2%93% Philadelphia limited lodging licenses1,3203%0%97% New Orleans non-commercial licenses1,2272%0%98% City of Boulder licenses (owners from the county assessor)1,0130%16%84% The two statewide files sit near the top: Florida and Wisconsin license short-term rentals across the whole state, and 44% of Florida's licenses and 43% of Wisconsin's name a company. ## Registers that name a host instead of the owner San Diego STRO licenses, Chicago shared housing registrations, Denver licenses (city map layer), Aspen permits print a person's name on almost every row and almost never a company. That reflects what those programs publish (the host or applicant who filed), not who owns the property. Their names are useful for outreach but say little about ownership, so they are left out of the shares above. ## Nashville: investor homes and large buildings Nashville's register separates permits for homes the owner lives in from homes the owner does not. Of 31,694 permits with that label, 63% are for homes the owner does not live in. Permit typePermitsCurrently active Not owner occupied20,0038,712 Owner occupied11,6913,733 Ownership in Nashville is also concentrated at the top. 43 names hold 50 or more permits each, 5,310 permits in all, or 17% of the city's register. 41 of those 43 names are companies, and many read as apartment buildings (names with "Apartments", "Village" or a street address), where each unit is permitted separately. The register counts permits, including renewals and expired ones, so these are permits held, not homes owned today. ## New Orleans: commercial and residential owners New Orleans files applications by permit class, and the classes split cleanly by who holds them: Permit classApplicationsIn a company's name Commercial owner4,14357% Residential owner4,0591.8% Non-commercial3,9591.9% Commercial-owner applications are mostly companies; residential and non-commercial applications are almost all individuals. Anyone selling to New Orleans hosts can split a list by permit class alone. ## Trusts in mountain and resort towns Where the holder name comes from county property records, trusts show up far more often. In Summit County, Colorado (Breckenridge, Frisco, Dillon), 14% of permits name a trust. In the City of Boulder, whose owner names come from the Boulder County Assessor, 16% do. In unincorporated Boulder County it is 14%. Registers that print the applicant or licensee rather than the deed holder show far fewer: 2% in Nashville and 1% in Florida. ## What the shares mean for outreach - Company names are often investors, management companies or building owners. They buy software, financing, insurance and services for many units at once, and they are usually reached through the company, not a personal phone. - Personal names are mostly individual owners, many with one rental. They are the property manager's natural prospect. - Trusts are run by a trustee, who makes the decisions. The owner's mailing address on the county tax roll is usually the best way to reach one. The multi-property owners guide shows how to count properties per name, and the buyer pages show which kinds of businesses use which records. ## Limits - Wording, not legal status. A name is sorted by the words in it. A company without a suffix in its printed name counts as a person, so company shares are a floor. - Licensee is not always owner. In Florida a management company can hold the license for a home it manages, so some Florida company licenses belong to managers rather than owners. - Permits, not people. Shares are of permits. An owner with ten permits counts ten times. - Different registers, different rules. Each register is shown on its own row because cities publish different fields; the combined share is a sum of those rows, not a national estimate. ## How to cite this study You may quote these figures and reuse the downloadable counts under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Please credit Lead Mining Company and link to this page. Lead Mining Company. “Who Holds Short-Term Rental Permits: People, Companies and Trusts.” PermitPulse data, 2026-10-08. https://leadminingcompany.com/research/who-holds-short-term-rental-permits/ Data: str-permit-holders-by-register.csv. All downloads: research data. Figures refresh when the site is rebuilt from the database; the date above is the date of the count. ## The records behind the counts PermitPulse™ is the database these studies count: 275,665 short-term rental permit records with the holder's name, the rental address and, where the register publishes it, a phone or email. From $99/month for one state, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse Browse coverage by state Research - Short-Term Rental Permit Statistics: U.S. Registers in 2026 - New Short-Term Rental Permit Filings, 2024 to 2026 - All studies and data Related guides - Which cities and states publish STR registers - STR permit records, explained - Finding owners with several rentals - STR permits by state --- ## Airbnb Host Leads by State and Market | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/airbnb-leads/ Airbnb host leads · from permit records # Airbnb host leads that are real people. Skip the scraped listings. Reach 275,665 licensed short-term-rental operators across 26 states — verified from government permit records, with a name, an address, and a phone or email on 111,698 of them. 275,665permit records 111,698with phone or email 30markets with their own page - Pick a state below to see its record count, its registers and a live sample - Buy one state from $99/month, or the whole state file once for $149 Browse by state ↓ How it works Counts refreshed 2026-10-08 · 23,590 records filed in the last 12 months. PermitPulse plans 275,665 records One state, monthlyEvery record for the state you pick, filtered and exported as you need it. $99per month State Choose a state Arizona · 4,661California · 21,147Colorado · 9,781Florida · 52,029Georgia · 2,125Hawaii · 1,473Illinois · 4,176Kentucky · 3,977Louisiana · 33,991Massachusetts · 499Michigan · 1,479Minnesota · 1,578Nevada · 765New Mexico · 905North Carolina · 1,731Ohio · 1,923Oregon · 6,907Pennsylvania · 1,320South Carolina · 1,716Tennessee · 33,509Texas · 47,323Washington · 29,596Wisconsin · 12,919 Subscribe → All 26 states, monthlyThe whole database, up to 50,000 records exported a month. $299per month Subscribe to all states Buy a file onceOne state $149, or all 26 states for $499. Re-download anytime. $149from, once Buy a download - Built from official STR permit registers - CSV download right after checkout - Card payment through Stripe ## Browse by state Every state page shows the live record count, the registers behind it, and what each record contains. Florida 52,029 Texas 47,323 Louisiana 33,991 Tennessee 33,509 Washington 29,596 California 21,147 Wisconsin 12,919 Colorado 9,781 Oregon 6,907 Arizona 4,661 Illinois 4,176 Kentucky 3,977 Georgia 2,125 Ohio 1,923 North Carolina 1,731 South Carolina 1,716 Minnesota 1,578 Michigan 1,479 Hawaii 1,473 Pennsylvania 1,320 New Mexico 905 Nevada 765 Massachusetts 499 Also in the national file with thinner coverage: Utah (69) · Maine (47) · Missouri (19). These states' registers publish little or nothing machine-readable yet; records appear as their programs open up. Idaho and Iowa are excluded — here's why. ## The newest records with a phone or email Real rows from the national file. Individual owners are shortened and contact details are masked on this page; your download has every field in full. Live sample · newest in the database Phones and emails masked here Newest Airbnb host permit records with a phone or email, masked OwnerCityPermit typeFiledPhoneEmail Loading the newest records… ## Questions, answered Where does the data come from? Every record is built from official government short-term-rental permit and licensing registers — public records. We do not scrape Airbnb, Vrbo or other listing sites. Are these Airbnb hosts? They are licensed short-term-rental operators. Most list on Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com, but the permit — not the platform — is what we verify, so you reach the operator directly rather than a listing. Can I call them? Of the 275,665 records, 109,909 include a phone number and 49,958 include an email. These are business contact records; you are responsible for your own TCPA, CAN-SPAM and Do-Not-Call compliance when you contact anyone on a list — plain-English guide. Which states are covered? 26 states. Idaho and Iowa are excluded: both preempted local short-term-rental permitting, so the public registers other states publish simply don't exist there. The full story. How current is the data? The database pulls from the source registers continuously — 23,590 records were filed within the last 12 months, and counts on this page were refreshed 2026-10-08. Subscribers always export the current file. ## Browse by market Deep pages for the biggest STR markets — the register behind each, and honest notes on contactability. New Orleans, LA 33,579 records phone / email Nashville, TN 32,925 records address-level Seattle, WA 16,725 records address-level San Diego, CA 8,818 records phone / email Austin, TX 7,553 records address-level Orlando & Kissimmee, FL 5,843 records phone / email Big Bear & Joshua Tree, CA 5,210 records phone / email Denver, CO 5,066 records address-level Portland, OR 4,527 records address-level Chicago, IL 4,176 records address-level Panama City Beach, FL 3,894 records phone / email Fort Lauderdale & Broward, FL 3,830 records phone / email Miami & Miami Beach, FL 3,586 records phone / email Destin & 30A, FL 3,346 records phone / email Port Aransas, TX 3,076 records address-level Scottsdale, AZ 3,069 records phone / email Sarasota & Bradenton, FL 2,766 records phone / email Galveston, TX 2,703 records address-level Louisville, KY 2,518 records phone / email Sonoma County, CA 2,410 records phone / email Bend, OR 2,380 records address-level Breckenridge & Summit County, CO 2,301 records address-level South Padre Island, TX 2,280 records address-level South Lake Tahoe, CA 1,978 records phone / email Fredericksburg, TX 1,730 records address-level Asheville, NC 1,709 records address-level Savannah, GA 1,493 records phone / email Traverse City, MI 1,479 records phone / email Honolulu & Oahu, HI 1,473 records address-level Philadelphia, PA 1,320 records address-level ## The list behind the listings Anyone can scrape an Airbnb page. That gives you a photo and a nickname — not a lead. When someone registers a short-term rental with their city or county, that filing is a public record: the owner's name, the property address, the permit, and often a phone or email. We collect those filings across 26 states, verify and clean them, and turn them into a contact list you can actually work. This is PermitPulse, built by Lead Mining Company. A verified operator with a permit on file is a far better lead than a scraped Airbnb listing. You are reaching the host directly, not messaging a booking form — and you know they are a real, active, licensed operator. New to permit data? Start with STR permit records, explained. 275,665 records across 26 states · 109,909 with a phone · 49,958 with an email · sourced from official government permit registers. See everything in PermitPulse → One row of the CSV ### What's in every record - Owner or host nameowner_name - Business name, when a company filedbusiness_name - Property address and ZIPproperty_address - City, county and statecity · county - Permit IDpermit_id - Permit type and statuspermit_type - Filing date, where publishedfiled_date - Phone, where the register has onephone - Email, where the register has oneemail - Date we first saw the permitfirst_seen_at ## Reach licensed hosts, not listings. One state or the whole country. Cancel anytime — or buy a file once and keep it. Get national access See pricing Airbnb host leads · 275,665 recordsOne state $99/mo · all states $299/mo Choose a plan --- ## Short-Term-Rental Permit Data — STR Permit List & License Records | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/str-permit-data/ STR permit data · license records # Short-term-rental permit data, structured. A clean, current vacation-rental license dataset: 275,665 permit records across 26 states, with owner names, property addresses, permit IDs and status — plus a phone or email on 111,698 of them. Built for data, product and underwriting teams. 275,665permit records 109,909with a phone 49,958with an email See sample rows ↓ Talk about the API Counts refreshed 2026-10-08 from the live database. PermitPulse plans 275,665 records One state, monthlyEvery record for the state you pick, filtered and exported as you need it. $99per month State Choose a state Arizona · 4,661California · 21,147Colorado · 9,781Florida · 52,029Georgia · 2,125Hawaii · 1,473Illinois · 4,176Kentucky · 3,977Louisiana · 33,991Massachusetts · 499Michigan · 1,479Minnesota · 1,578Nevada · 765New Mexico · 905North Carolina · 1,731Ohio · 1,923Oregon · 6,907Pennsylvania · 1,320South Carolina · 1,716Tennessee · 33,509Texas · 47,323Washington · 29,596Wisconsin · 12,919 Subscribe → All 26 states, monthlyThe whole database, up to 50,000 records exported a month. $299per month Subscribe to all states Buy a file onceOne state $149, or all 26 states for $499. Re-download anytime. $149from, once Buy a download - Built from official STR permit registers - CSV download right after checkout - Card payment through Stripe ## A structured STR permit dataset Not a scraped listing dump — an assembled, normalized record set drawn from primary government sources. Live sample · newest in the database Phones and emails masked here Newest STR permit records with a phone or email, masked OwnerCityPermit typeFiledPhoneEmail Loading the newest records… We collect short-term-rental permit and licensing filings from official government registers across 26 states, deduplicate and normalize them into consistent fields, and keep the source URL frozen against each record. What you get is a vacation-rental license dataset you can load into a warehouse, match against your own book, or feed into a product — without maintaining 2,000 county scrapers yourself. Every record traces back to an official government permit or licensing register (public records). Idaho and Iowa never appear in the data: both states preempted local short-term-rental permitting, so their registers don't exist. One row of the CSV ### Fields in every record - Owner or host nameowner_name - Business name, when a company filedbusiness_name - Property address and ZIPproperty_address - City, county and statecity · county - Permit IDpermit_id - Permit type and statuspermit_type - Filing date, where publishedfiled_date - Phone, where the register has onephone - Email, where the register has oneemail - Date we first saw the permitfirst_seen_at 275,665 records · 26 states · 109,909 with a phone · 49,958 with an email · 111,698 contactable in total. ## Who uses the dataset The teams that need permit data at the record level, not a marketing summary. ### PMS & software vendors Size a market, target newly licensed hosts, or enrich onboarding with verified permit status. ### STR insurance carriers Match permit filings against policies, find newly registered units, and price short-term-rental risk. ### Lenders & fintech Identify operating short-term-rental businesses for financing and portfolio matching. ### Data & analytics teams A primary-source permit feed to blend with your own data — delivered by export or API. ### Tax & compliance firms Cross-reference lodging-tax and licensing obligations against the public permit record. ### Marketing & services Address- and owner-level targeting for companies that sell to permitted operators. ## Get the data Subscribe monthly, export once, or license it for your product. ### Single state $99/mo One state, refreshed monthly. Up to 10,000 records exported a month. Choose a state Best value ### National $299/mo All 26 states, all 275,665 records. Get national access ### One-time download $149 / $499 A whole state for $149, or every state for $499, as one CSV. Re-download anytime. Buy a download ### API / white-label from $1,500/mo Programmatic access or embed in your product. Contact sales Already have an account? Sign in. ### Compliance PermitPulse records come from official government permit and licensing registers — public records — and are provided as business contact data for B2B outreach, as published: we don't verify phones or emails. You are responsible for your own TCPA, CAN-SPAM, and state and federal Do-Not-Call compliance when contacting anyone on a list. Idaho and Iowa are excluded because both states preempted local short-term-rental permitting, so no permit registers exist there. ## Put permit data to work. Export a state, subscribe nationally, or license it for your platform. Get national access Talk to sales STR permit data · 275,665 recordsOne state $99/mo · all states $299/mo Choose a plan --- ## Who Uses Short-Term Rental Permit Data | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/airbnb-leads/buyers/ Airbnb leads / Who uses the data PermitPulse · buyers # Who uses STR permit data Anyone who sells to short-term rental owners needs to know who they are and where the properties are. PermitPulse holds 275,665 permit and license records from public registers in 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. These 11 kinds of business use them, each for a different reason and a different set of fields. See plans Browse cities Counts refreshed 2026-10-08 from the live database. ## The data at a glance Permit and license records275,665 With a phone109,909 With an email49,958 Dated in the last 12 months23,590 States26 City pages127 ## Pick your business ### Property managers and co-hosts Use public short-term-rental permit records to find independent owners in your service area, see who already holds several properties, and reach them by phone or mail. Read more → ### Cleaning and turnover companies Licensed short-term rentals by town, with the licensee's phone where the register publishes it, so a turnover crew can call owners instead of guessing from listings. Read more → ### Real estate agents Owners of licensed vacation rentals by city and ZIP: who holds the permit, where the property is, and in many states how to reach them. Read more → ### Real estate investors Where licensed short-term rentals are concentrated, who holds several, and which markets are still adding permits, from public registers. Read more → ### Insurance agents Licensed short-term rental owners by town, split into houses and condos in Florida, with the licensee's phone where the register publishes it. Read more → ### DSCR and STR lenders Owners with licensed rentals, investors holding several, and the markets still adding permits, from public permit and license registers. Read more → ### Pool and hot tub services Licensed vacation-rental houses by town, with the licensee's phone where published: a starting list for pool, spa and hot tub service routes. Read more → ### HVAC, pest control and maintenance Licensed short-term rentals and the operators who hold several of them, so one service agreement can cover more than one property. Read more → ### Furnishing and staging companies Find owners who just applied for or received a short-term rental permit, the point when a property often still needs furniture, design and setup. Read more → ### Vacation rental photographers Owners with new short-term rental permits, by city, with contact details where the register publishes them. Read more → ### PMS and revenue-management software Find professional short-term rental operators by how many properties each name holds, sized by market, from public permit and license registers. Read more → ### Where each buyer starts BuyerField that matters mostTop of their table today Property managers and co-hostsOwner or licensee nameKissimmee, FL (2,788) Cleaning and turnover companiesPhoneKissimmee, FL (2,788) Real estate agentsOwner or permit-holder nameFlorida (52,029) Real estate investorsProperty address and ZIPHouston, TX (2,034) Insurance agentsLicense typeKissimmee, FL (2,297) DSCR and STR lendersName on the permitLouisiana (33,991) Pool and hot tub servicesLicense typeKissimmee, FL (2,297) HVAC, pest control and maintenanceName on the permitHayward, WI (461) Furnishing and staging companiesFiling dateLouisiana (3,538) Vacation rental photographersFiling dateAspen, CO (747) PMS and revenue-management softwareName on the permitDavenport, FL (2,397) "Top of their table" is the first row of the live data table on each buyer page, as of 2026-10-08. ### What every buyer gets Each record carries the permit or license number, the property address and ZIP, the permit type and status where published, a filing date where the register dates permits, and the holder's name, phone and email where the register publishes them. Records come from government registers, not scraped listings, so you reach the person or company that holds the permit. ### Largest city files Kissimmee, FL2,788Davenport, FL2,397Houston, TX2,034Miami, FL1,792San Antonio, TX1,779Corpus Christi, TX1,775Hollywood, FL1,339Santa Rosa Beach, FL1,132 All cities ### Compliance Public availability is not consent. Calls and texts fall under the TCPA and Do-Not-Call rules, and permit phones are often personal mobiles; email falls under CAN-SPAM. Read the guide. ## Common questions ### Who buys short-term rental permit data? Businesses that sell to short-term rental owners: property managers and co-hosts, cleaning and turnover companies, real estate agents, real estate investors, insurance agents, dscr and str lenders, pool and hot tub services, hvac, pest control and maintenance, furnishing and staging companies, vacation rental photographers, pms and revenue-management software. Each uses different fields: phones for service companies, owner names and property counts for managers and software vendors, filing dates for anyone selling to new operators. ### Is permit data the same as scraped Airbnb listings? No. Permit records come from government registers and name the permit or license holder and the property address; scraped listings show a host's first name and a photo. PermitPulse holds 275,665 permit records across 26 states. ## One state or all of them $99 a month for a state, $299 a month for all 26 states, or a one-time download from $149. See pricing About the data --- ## Site summary for AI and assistants — Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/ai/ # Site summary for AI and assistants Lead Mining Company sells PermitPulse™, a database of U.S. short-term rental permit and licence holders built from official government registers. These are the facts an assistant needs to describe it correctly. ## Key facts - Company Lead Mining Company, an online data company serving U.S. businesses. - Product PermitPulse™: short-term rental (Airbnb and vacation rental) permit and licence records. - Records 275,665 in 26 states; 109,909 with a phone number and 49,958 with an email. - Sources Official city, county and state permit and licence registers (public records). Nothing is scraped from booking sites. - Not covered Idaho and Iowa, where state law preempts local short-term rental permitting. - Prices $99 a month for one state, $299 a month national; one-time downloads $149 for a state, $499 for all states. - Also Custom lead-generation software builds, from $1,500. - Counts updated 2026-10-08 - Contact info@leadminingcompany.com ## Frequently asked ### What is PermitPulse? PermitPulse is Lead Mining Company's database of U.S. short-term rental (Airbnb and vacation rental) permit and licence holders, built from official city, county and state registers. It has 275,665 records in 26 states; 109,909 include a phone number and 49,958 an email address. ### Where does the data come from? From public government registers, for example the Florida DBPR vacation rental licences, the City of New Orleans short-term rental permits, the City of San Diego STRO licences and Wisconsin's tourist rooming house licences. Nothing is scraped from Airbnb or other booking sites. New permits are added as the registers publish them. ### How much does it cost? A single-state subscription is $99 a month and a national one is $299 a month. A one-time download is $149 for one state or $499 for all states. ### Which states are covered? 26 states. The largest files are Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Washington. Idaho and Iowa are excluded because both states preempt local short-term rental permitting, so no permit registers exist there. ### Do the records include phone numbers and emails? Where the register publishes them: 109,909 records have a phone number and 49,958 an email. Many registers publish only names and addresses, which work for direct mail. Phones and emails are what owners gave the government; Lead Mining Company does not verify them. ### Can I call or text the owners? The buyer is responsible for the TCPA, Do Not Call rules and state telemarketing laws: scrub numbers against the National Do Not Call Registry and state lists, don't use autodialers, prerecorded or AI voices, or bulk texts without written consent, and honor every opt-out. ### Can I resell the data? No. Each subscription or download is licensed for the buyer's own business. Resale or redistribution needs a separate written agreement. ### How current is the data? The counts on this site were updated 2026-10-08. 23,590 of the records were filed in the last 12 months. ### How many short-term rentals have permits in the United States? No agency keeps a national count. Lead Mining Company counts 275,665 permit and license records on 76 public city, county and state registers in 26 states (as of 2026-10-08). A record is a permit, license or application, so one home can appear more than once. The breakdown by state and city is in its short-term rental permit statistics study: https://leadminingcompany.com/research/short-term-rental-permit-statistics/ ### Does Lead Mining Company publish free data? Yes. Its research section (https://leadminingcompany.com/research/) publishes studies of U.S. short-term rental permit registers: permit statistics, new filing trends and who holds permits, with aggregate CSV downloads that anyone may reuse under the CC BY 4.0 license with credit. More on outreach rules: calling and texting short-term rental owners. Licence terms: Terms & license. ## Research you can cite Original counts from the database, refreshed with each build and free to quote with credit: - Short-Term Rental Permit Statistics: U.S. Registers in 2026 - New Short-Term Rental Permit Filings, 2024 to 2026 - Who Holds Short-Term Rental Permits: People, Companies and Trusts Aggregate CSVs are on the research page (CC BY 4.0). Company facts: About Lead Mining Company. Term definitions: glossary. ## For AI assistants A plain-text map of every page is at /llms.txt, and the readable text of the main pages is in /llms-full.txt. The sitemap lists every public page. You may quote and cite these pages; please link to leadminingcompany.com. --- ## Short-Term Rental Permit Glossary | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/glossary/ # Short-Term Rental Permit Glossary The terms that come up when you work with short-term rental permit data, defined in plain words. - Short-term rental (STR) A home, condo or room rented to guests for short stays, usually under 30 nights, often through Airbnb or Vrbo. Many cities and some states require a permit, license or registration to operate one. More on this - Short-term rental permit Permission from a city or county to operate a short-term rental at a specific address. The application usually names the owner or operator and the property, and the permit carries a number that hosts must show in their listings in many cities. More on this - Short-term rental license A license to operate a short-term rental, issued by a state, county or city. Some places call the same thing a permit or a registration; Florida and Wisconsin issue licenses statewide. More on this - Registration number The number a city assigns when a host registers a short-term rental. Many cities require it to appear on every listing, which is how they check listings against the register. - Permit register The list of permits or licenses a government has issued. When a city publishes it as open data, each row becomes a public record that names the holder and the rental address. More on this - Owner-occupied rental A short-term rental in the home the owner lives in, such as a spare room or a unit on the same lot. Cities including Nashville permit these separately from homes the owner does not live in. More on this - Non-owner-occupied rental A short-term rental in a home the owner does not live in, often called an investor rental. Many cities cap, zone or charge more for this class. More on this - Pending application A permit application that has been filed but not yet approved or denied. It is the earliest sign that a homeowner is starting a short-term rental. More on this - Expired permit A permit that was not renewed by its deadline. Registers that keep their history list expired permits next to active ones. More on this - Revoked permit A permit the city cancelled, usually for violations or unpaid taxes or fees. - Florida DBPR vacation rental license Florida's state license for vacation rentals, issued by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation under Florida Statutes section 509.241. Each license is coded as a dwelling, a condominium or a collective of units. More on this - Texas hotel occupancy tax permit The permit Texas businesses file with the state Comptroller to collect hotel occupancy tax. Rented houses and condos owe the tax too, so short-term rentals appear on the permit roll next to hotels. More on this - Tourist rooming house Wisconsin's term for a short-term rental. The state licenses tourist rooming houses through the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP), under ATCP 72. More on this - Transaction privilege tax (TPT) license Arizona's sales-tax license. Arizona has no statewide short-term rental permit; hosts need a TPT license, and cities may require their own local short-term rental license. - STRO license San Diego's Short-Term Residential Occupancy license, issued in tiers that separate part-time rentals, home sharing and whole-home rentals. More on this - Preemption When state law takes a power away from local governments. Idaho and Iowa preempt local short-term rental permitting, so their cities publish no permit registers. More on this - Licensee The person or company named on a license. It is usually the owner, but in Florida a management company can hold the license for a home it manages. - Address-level record A permit record with a name and an address but no phone or email, because the register does not publish them. These records suit direct mail and skip tracing. More on this - Skip tracing Looking up a phone number or email for a person whose name and address are known, using commercial data services. - Multi-property owner A person or company whose name appears on permits for two or more rental addresses. Found by grouping permit records by holder name within one state. More on this - Do Not Call Registry The national list, run by the Federal Trade Commission, of phone numbers whose owners do not want telemarketing calls. Many states keep their own lists too. More on this - TCPA The Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the federal law that limits marketing calls and texts, especially with autodialers, prerecorded or artificial voices, and to cell phones. More on this - Filing date The date a permit application was filed or a permit was issued, as the register publishes it. It is how new records are told apart from old ones. More on this - PermitPulse Lead Mining Company's database of U.S. short-term rental permit and license records, built from public government registers. More on this Numbers behind these terms are in the research section. --- ## Terms of Service — Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/terms/ # Terms of Service The agreement between you and Lead Mining Company for use of this site, PermitPulse and our data products. Effective July 10, 2026. Last updated October 7, 2026. These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern your access to and use of the websites, data products, subscriptions, exports and API (together, the "Services") provided by Lead Mining Company ("we", "us" or "our"). By creating an account, subscribing, buying an export or otherwise using the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services. ## 1. What the data is Our data — including the PermitPulse short-term-rental permit dataset — is compiled from official government permit and licensing registers, which are public records. It contains the names, addresses and, where a register publishes them, the phone numbers and email addresses of permit holders and their contacts. Many of them are individuals, and many of the numbers are personal mobile phones. The data has not been checked against any Do-Not-Call list, and nobody in it has agreed to be contacted by you. We sell it to businesses for their business purposes, exactly as the registers publish it; we do not verify phone numbers or email addresses. We collect, deduplicate and normalize these public records; we do not create them and we are not the system of record. The data is provided "as is" and "as available." Public records contain errors, omissions and stale entries, and permit status can change at any time. We do not warrant that any record is accurate, complete, current or fit for a particular purpose, and we make no representation that any phone number or email address is present, correct or reachable. ## 2. Acceptable use You may use the data for lawful B2B outreach and internal business purposes. You may not use the Services to: - break any law, regulation or third-party right; - harass, defraud, or send unlawful or deceptive communications to anyone; - target consumers for regulated consumer offers where the recipient is an individual rather than a business; - attempt to re-identify, combine or enrich the data in a way that violates any law or another party's rights; - decide anyone's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or tenancy, or use the data for any other purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act; - harass, stalk or discriminate against anyone, or market debt relief, credit repair or foreclosure rescue; - run robocall, voice-broadcast or ringless-voicemail campaigns; - claim or suggest that you are, or act for, a city, county, state or permit office, or use an agency's name or seal, a permit number or the word "official" to make a message look like a government notice; or - scrape, overload, probe or interfere with the Services or circumvent access controls. ## 3. Your compliance responsibility You are solely responsible for how you contact anyone on a list. Calls, texts, faxes and email you send are governed by laws including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the FCC's rules, the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule, the CAN-SPAM Act, and state telemarketing, text-message, registration and Do-Not-Call (DNC) laws. We do not provide legal advice, and nothing in the Services is a representation that a given contact may lawfully be called, texted or emailed by you. In particular, you agree to: - Scrub before you call or text. Check every number against the National Do Not Call Registry under your own account, using registry data no more than 31 days old, and against every state list that applies. Keep a written do-not-call policy and honor requests within ten business days, or any shorter state deadline. - No autodialers, recorded or AI voices, or marketing texts without consent. Do not use an automatic dialing system, a prerecorded, artificial or AI-generated voice, ringless voicemail, or marketing texts unless you separately hold the recipient's prior express written consent as federal and state law require. Our data never supplies consent. Texts to Washington numbers need the recipient's clear advance consent (RCW 19.190.060). - Respect hours and limits. Call or text only between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. in the recipient's local time, no more than three times in 24 hours on the same subject, and follow any stricter state rule. - Say who you are. Give your name and your business's legal name and a number that can be called back on every call, and never alter or hide your caller ID. - Follow CAN-SPAM for email: an accurate From line and subject, a valid postal address and a working opt-out honored within ten business days. - Hold your registrations. Keep every telemarketing registration, licence or bond that applies to you, for example in Florida, Texas or Louisiana. - Honor every opt-out across calls, texts, email and mail, and tell us about it so we can suppress the record. - Keep records and tell us about claims. Keep call, text, email, scrub and consent records for five years and give them to us within ten business days if we ask about a complaint. Tell us within five business days of any complaint, demand letter, lawsuit or regulator inquiry that involves our data. - Bind your vendors. If a call centre or other vendor contacts people for you, bind it in writing to these Terms; you are responsible for what it does. You confirm that you are a business acting for business purposes, and that neither you nor your principals are subject to any telemarketing order or ban. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless from any claim, fine, penalty, settlement or attorneys' fees arising out of your outreach, your use of the data or your breach of these Terms; this survives the end of your account. We may suspend or end your access without refund on a credible complaint, a regulator inquiry or a breach of this section, and our files may contain monitored seed records. ## 4. No resale or redistribution Your subscription or export grants you an internal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the data for your own business. You may not resell, sublicense, publish, redistribute, or make available the raw data (in whole or in substantial part) to any third party. Building a competing dataset or list product from our data is prohibited. White-label and embedded-data arrangements are available only under a separate written agreement; without one, no white-label or redistribution rights are granted. ## 5. Subscriptions and billing Paid subscriptions (single-state and national plans) are billed monthly in advance through our payment processor. Your subscription renews automatically each month until you cancel. You may cancel anytime through the billing portal; cancellation stops future renewals and your access continues until the end of the current paid period. Fees are non-refundable, and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial months, unused time, or periods during which you did not use the Services. ## 6. One-time downloads A one-time download (single-state or national) is a flat-price purchase of the data as it stands at the time you download it, licensed for your internal use only under Section 4. You may re-download your purchased scope as often as you like from your account, and each download reflects the database at that moment — but a one-time download is not a subscription, carries no service commitment to keep the data current, and may be discontinued or re-priced for future purchases. Once purchased, a one-time download is non-refundable. ## 7. Accounts and security You must provide accurate, current information and keep your account credentials secure. You are responsible for all activity under your account. Notify us promptly of any unauthorized use. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, that we reasonably believe are being used unlawfully, or to protect the Services. ## 8. Coverage and legal exclusions Coverage currently spans 26 U.S. states. Idaho and Iowa are excluded. Both states have preempted local short-term-rental permitting — Idaho through House Bill 583 (effective 1 July 2026) and Iowa through House File 2641 (2020) — so cities and counties there cannot require the permits that create these records, and no permit registers exist to draw from. Those states are never included in any subscription, download or API response. We may add, remove or change coverage as source availability and law require. ## 9. Limitation of liability To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenues, data or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the Services or the data. Our total aggregate liability for any claim relating to the Services will not exceed the amount you paid us for the Services in the three (3) months before the event giving rise to the claim. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you. ## 10. Changes to these Terms We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the effective date above. Your continued use of the Services after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms. ## 11. Governing law These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. You agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Wyoming. ## 12. Trademarks PermitPulse™ is a trademark of Lead Mining Company, used for our short-term-rental permit data service since July 10, 2026. You may not use the PermitPulse name, or a confusingly similar name, for any product, service, domain name or business without our written permission. Other names on this site belong to their respective owners. ## 13. Contact Questions about these Terms? Email info@leadminingcompany.com. Lead Mining Company. --- ## How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/how-to-find-airbnb-owners/ On this page 1. Message hosts through the platform2. Scrape listings and reverse-engineer the address3. County property records4. Buy a list from a general data broker5. Market-analytics tools6. Partner with someone who already has the relationship7. Short-term-rental permit recordsHow to actually choose 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Playbook # 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. Published 2026-07-25 · 8 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page 1. Message hosts through the platform2. Scrape listings and reverse-engineer the address3. County property records4. Buy a list from a general data broker5. Market-analytics tools6. Partner with someone who already has the relationship7. Short-term-rental permit recordsHow to actually choose If you sell anything to short-term-rental operators — cleaning, insurance, software, furniture, management, lending, bookkeeping — you run into the same wall on day one. Airbnb shows you a photo, a first name and a message box. It does not show you a person you can call. This is a deliberate design choice, not an oversight. The platform's whole business depends on staying between the guest and the host, so it gives you a listing and withholds an identity. That is fine if you want to book a weekend. It is useless if you want to sell someone a service. Below are the seven approaches companies actually use to reach property owners, in rough order of how well they work. We build one of them for a living, so treat the last section accordingly — but the honest costs and failure modes of the other six are laid out just as plainly, because most of them are worth knowing about and two of them are worth avoiding. ## 1. Message hosts through the platform The obvious first move: open a listing, send an inquiry, pitch in the message thread. It works at a scale of about ten. Beyond that it collapses. Airbnb's terms prohibit using the platform to solicit business, and hosts report soliciting messages routinely. Accounts get restricted. More practically, you are competing with the guest inquiries the host actually wants, and hosts learn to spot a pitch in the first line and archive it. There is also a targeting problem nobody mentions. You cannot tell from a listing whether the owner manages one property or forty, whether they live in the market or three states away, or whether they just started. You are pitching blind. Verdict: fine for your first ten conversations when you are still figuring out the pitch. Not a channel. ## 2. Scrape listings and reverse-engineer the address The next step people try: scrape listing pages at volume, then work out which physical property each one is. The map pin is deliberately fuzzed to a circle, so you match on photos, amenity combinations, review text and the approximate location until you can identify the house — and then look up the owner in county property records. This can be done. It is slow, expensive and fragile. The identification step is genuinely hard and produces wrong matches, which means you contact the neighbour instead of the host. Scraping at volume also runs into the platform's terms of service and its anti-bot measures, and both change without warning. The economics rarely work. By the time you have paid for proxies, engineering time and a property-data subscription, you have spent more per usable contact than any of the direct routes below. Verdict: a real technique with a real cost. Almost never the cheapest path to the same names. ## 3. County property records Every county in America publishes ownership records: who owns what parcel, and the mailing address they want tax bills sent to. It is free or close to it, and it is authoritative. The problem is that property records tell you who owns a house. They do not tell you it is a short-term rental. A county with 200,000 parcels might have 3,000 STRs in it, and nothing in the assessor's file distinguishes them. You end up mailing homeowners at random and hoping. Two partial workarounds: filter for out-of-state owners (a weak signal — plenty of long-term landlords and second-home owners live elsewhere), or filter for LLC ownership (also weak, for the same reason). Both leave you with a list that is mostly not your market. Verdict: excellent data, wrong question. Useful as an enrichment layer after you know which properties are STRs, not as the way to find them. ## 4. Buy a list from a general data broker Plenty of brokers will sell you "Airbnb hosts." Ask two questions before you pay: where did the data come from, and when. Broker files in this category are usually assembled from consumer marketing databases and matched against something loosely STR-adjacent, then resold repeatedly. Nobody is under any obligation to tell you the file is four years old or that six competitors bought the same rows last quarter. When a vendor cannot name the source, that is the answer. You will also see files advertised with contact rates that are too good to be true — "98% phone match" on a dataset where the underlying public records mostly do not publish phone numbers. That number came from an append vendor guessing, and guesses call the wrong person. Verdict: occasionally fine, frequently not, and hard to tell apart in advance. Insist on provenance. ## 5. Market-analytics tools AirDNA and similar products are genuinely good at what they do: estimating occupancy, average daily rate and revenue for a market or a property. Investors use them to decide whether to buy. They are not lead lists, and they do not claim to be. They will tell you a zip code has 1,400 active listings averaging $217 a night. They will not give you 1,400 names and phone numbers, because that is a different product built from different sources. Verdict: the right tool for market research. The wrong tool for outreach. People conflate these constantly and end up disappointed by a product that was never sold to them as a contact database. ## 6. Partner with someone who already has the relationship Cleaners know hosts. So do photographers, handymen, locksmiths, linen suppliers and the local STR Facebook group admin. A referral arrangement with two or three of them can outperform any list, because the introduction carries trust you cannot buy. The catch is that it does not scale and it is not fast. You will build a handful of these relationships a quarter, and each one takes real effort. It is a genuinely good channel that happens to be slow — which is exactly why it works, since your competitors give up on it. Verdict: do this regardless. Just do not expect it to fill a pipeline this month. ## 7. Short-term-rental permit records Here is the part most people do not know: in most of the country, running a short-term rental legally means registering with the city or county. That filing is a public record. Depending on the jurisdiction, the register may publish the owner's name, the property address, the permit number and status, the filing date, and — in a meaningful number of places — a phone number and email address, because the applicant had to provide them. This solves the exact problem the other six approaches trip over. You are not guessing which houses are short-term rentals; the operator told the government they were. You are not matching a fuzzy map pin to a parcel; the address is in the filing. You are not wondering whether the data is real; it came from the agency that issued the permit. Three things to understand before you rely on it: Coverage is uneven, because permitting is local. Florida licenses vacation rentals at the state level, so coverage there is statewide. California has no state program at all, so its data is assembled city by city. Some large markets publish beautifully structured files; others publish nothing machine-readable and require a records request. Contact detail depends entirely on what each register publishes. This is the single most important thing to check before buying any permit-based list. Some registers include the applicant's phone and email. Many publish only the property address and owner name. Both are useful, but they support completely different outreach — a phone list feeds a dialer, an address-level list feeds direct mail or a skip-trace. Anyone selling you permit data should tell you which one you are getting, per market, before you pay. Two states have no data at all. Idaho and Iowa preempted local short-term-rental permitting at the state level, which means the registers other states publish simply do not exist there. Any vendor claiming coverage in those two states is selling you something else. The full explanation is here. What this looks like in practice. PermitPulse — the database we maintain — currently holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states, of which 111,698 include a phone or email drawn from the public record, and 23,590 were filed in the last twelve months. Those numbers are pulled live from the database, and the contact rate varies enormously by state for exactly the reason described above. Every state page shows its own count and says plainly whether it is a phone-and-email file or an address-level one. ## How to actually choose Work backwards from what your outreach motion needs. If you run a phone team, you need records with published phone numbers, which means concentrating on the states and cities whose registers include them — Louisiana, Wisconsin, Florida, Arizona, parts of California and Kentucky are the strong ones today. Buying a national file and discovering that most of it is address-only is a bad surprise; check the per-state breakdown first. If you run direct mail, the address-level markets that frustrate phone teams are wide open, and considerably less worked, precisely because they are inconvenient for everyone else. Texas is the clearest example: a very large, very current file with almost no published phone numbers. If you sell something that a brand-new operator needs — furniture, setup, insurance, first-time management — filing date matters more than contact type. A permit filed three weeks ago is a different prospect from one filed in 2021. That timing argument is worth its own guide. And whichever route you pick: the fact that a record is public does not make every method of contacting it legal. Calls and texts fall under the TCPA and Do-Not-Call rules, email falls under CAN-SPAM, and the "it's B2B so it's exempt" shortcut is not as safe as people think when the number on the permit is somebody's personal cell. We wrote the plain-English version here. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally - Pending vs. Granted ## More guides Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/str-permit-data-explained/ On this page What a short-term-rental permit isWhy the records are publicWhat is inside a recordThe contactability problem, explained properlyWhere the records liveThe fields people ignoreWhat permit data is notAnd two states with nothingUsing it 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Data # STR 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. Published 2026-07-25 · 7 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page What a short-term-rental permit isWhy the records are publicWhat is inside a recordThe contactability problem, explained properlyWhere the records liveThe fields people ignoreWhat permit data is notAnd two states with nothingUsing it Most people selling into the short-term-rental market have never looked at a permit register. It is the least glamorous dataset in the industry and by some distance the most useful, because it is the one place an operator has to identify themselves by name. This guide explains what these records are, how they get created, what is actually inside one, and — the part that matters commercially — why two states with similar populations can produce wildly different data. ## What a short-term-rental permit is In most of the United States, renting a home to guests for short stays is a regulated activity. The regulation is almost always local: a city, a county, or occasionally a state decides that anyone operating a short-term rental must register, pay a fee, and meet some conditions. The conditions vary enormously. Some places want proof of insurance and a local contact who can be reached within an hour. Some cap the number of permits in a neighbourhood. Some require the operator to live in the home. Some just want the lodging tax collected properly. What matters for our purposes is the paperwork. To get a permit, someone fills in a form. That form asks who they are, where the property is, and how to reach them. Once the agency processes it, that filing becomes a government record — and in the United States, government records are presumptively public. ## Why the records are public Every state has a public-records law, and the federal government has the Freedom of Information Act. The details differ, but the principle is consistent: records created by a government agency in the course of its work belong to the public unless a specific exemption applies. Permit registers are a plain case. They are not personnel files or law-enforcement records. They are licensing records, in the same family as contractor licences, restaurant inspections and liquor permits — the kind of thing many agencies publish on an open-data portal without anyone having to ask. That publishing decision is where the variation comes from. Two cities can run near-identical permit programs and make completely different choices about what appears on the public-facing register. One posts a searchable map with the operator's phone number. The other posts a PDF with addresses and permit numbers. A third posts nothing and makes you file a records request. None of them are doing anything wrong. They are exercising discretion about how much of a public record gets pushed onto the open internet versus released on request. But it means the quality of short-term-rental data in a market has almost nothing to do with the size of the market and almost everything to do with an administrative decision made by a records officer. ## What is inside a record A typical permit filing, normalized into database fields, gives you: - Property address — the actual street address of the rental, not a fuzzy map circle. Present on essentially every record. - Owner or host name — the person or entity that applied. Frequently an individual; often an LLC. - Permit ID — the licence or registration number, which lets you verify the record against the source register. - Permit type — many programs distinguish whole-home from owner-occupied or partial-home rentals, which tells you something real about the operator. - Status — active, pending, expired, revoked. Pending is commercially interesting; more on that below. - City and county — for territory assignment and routing. - Filing date — when the application was made. The single most under-used field in the entire dataset. - Phone and email — where the register publishes them. This is the field that varies most. Of the 275,665 records currently in PermitPulse, 111,698 carry a phone or email — 109,909 with a phone, 49,958 with an email. That is roughly a third of the database, and the distribution is nothing like even. ## The contactability problem, explained properly This is the thing to understand before you buy permit data from anyone. Louisiana and Texas are both large states with large short-term-rental markets. New Orleans publishes its short-term-rental registers with the applicant's phone number and email address attached — so Louisiana contributes 29,289 contactable records out of 33,991. Texas surfaces short-term rentals mainly through hotel-occupancy-tax permits filed with the state Comptroller. That file is statewide, current, and covers every beach town and hill-country market in the state — 47,323 records. It publishes almost no phone numbers at all. Neither file is better. They are different products. The Louisiana data feeds a dialer. The Texas data feeds a direct-mail campaign or a skip-trace, and because it frustrates every phone-first competitor, it is considerably less worked. The question to ask any vendor: "For the specific states I care about, how many records include a published phone number — and does that number come from the government register or from an append vendor?" A file that was 12% contactable at the source and is now advertised at 95% has been appended, and appends in this category are frequently wrong. A wrong number is worse than no number: it costs you a call, and occasionally it costs you a complaint. ## Where the records live There are roughly four tiers, and they determine everything about whether a market is available. Open-data portals. The best case. A city publishes its register as a structured, machine-readable dataset that updates on a schedule. New Orleans, Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, Nashville and Louisville are all in this category. Data quality is high and freshness is genuinely good. Mapping services. Many counties publish permits as a geographic layer intended for a map viewer rather than as a data download. The information is all there and it is entirely public — it just was not designed to be read in bulk. A lot of county-level short-term-rental data lives here. State licensing files. A handful of states license at the state level rather than leaving it to cities. Florida is the clearest example: the Department of Business and Professional Regulation licenses vacation rentals statewide under Florida Statute 509.241, which is why Florida coverage is statewide rather than city-by-city, and why most Florida records carry the licensee's phone number straight from the licence file. Wisconsin runs a comparable statewide program for tourist rooming houses, and its file is the best-contact-quality dataset in the country. Records requests only. Plenty of jurisdictions run real permit programs and publish nothing online. The records still exist and are still public; getting them means filing a formal request under the state public-records act, waiting, and often paying a copying fee. Sevier County, Tennessee — Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, thousands of permitted cabins — is a well-known example of a large market that publishes nothing. ## The fields people ignore Two fields carry more commercial signal than the contact details everyone fixates on. ### Filing date A permit filed last month and a permit filed in 2021 are not the same prospect. The recent one belongs to someone in the middle of setting up: they are buying furniture, choosing a lock, shopping for insurance, deciding whether to self-manage, and looking for a cleaner. The 2021 one has settled every one of those questions and has an incumbent supplier for each. 23,590 records in the database were filed within the last twelve months. If you sell anything a new operator needs, that subset is worth more than the rest of the file combined. This argument gets its own guide. ### Status Pending applications are the earliest possible signal — someone who has decided to operate but has not yet been approved. There are 3,856 of them in the database right now. They are also the most perishable: pending becomes granted, and the window closes. ## What permit data is not Three honest limitations. It does not cover unpermitted operators. Some people run short-term rentals without registering. They are, by definition, absent from a permit register. In markets with strict caps and long waiting lists, that population can be significant. It tells you nothing about performance. A permit record does not know whether the property books out every weekend or sat empty all year. If you need occupancy or revenue estimates, that is a different product built from listing and booking data. It is uneven, and honest vendors say so. Coverage follows administrative decisions, not market size. Some enormous markets are thin because the county publishes nothing; some small resort towns are beautifully documented. Anyone claiming uniform national coverage of this data is describing something that does not exist. ## And two states with nothing Idaho and Iowa have both preempted local short-term-rental permitting at the state level. Idaho's House Bill 583, signed in March 2026 and effective 1 July 2026, bars cities and counties from requiring a permit, licence, registration or fee to operate a short-term rental. Iowa did the same in 2020 through House File 2641. The consequence is straightforward: if local governments cannot require permits, no permit registers get created, and there is nothing to publish. We exclude both states from everything we sell. The longer version is here. ## Using it Permit data answers one question extremely well — who is legally operating a short-term rental, where, and since when — and it answers it with a government record rather than an inference. Everything else is your job: deciding which markets are worth working, choosing an outreach channel that matches what the register actually publishes, and staying inside the rules when you make contact. Public record status makes the data legal to hold. It does not make every method of using it legal, and the compliance side is worth ten minutes of your time before you dial anything. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally - Pending vs. Granted ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/airbnb-leads-for-property-managers/ On this page The timing insight that changes everythingBuilding the target listWhat to actually sayDirect mail, where phones are not publishedA cadence that worksBefore you start dialing 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Playbook # How 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. Published 2026-07-25 · 6 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page The timing insight that changes everythingBuilding the target listWhat to actually sayDirect mail, where phones are not publishedA cadence that worksBefore you start dialing Vacation-rental management is a business where growth comes down to one number: how many owner contracts you sign this year. Everything else — software, staffing, margins — is downstream of that. Most managers grow through referrals and inbound, which works until it doesn't. The referral pipeline is capacity-limited by definition, and inbound depends on ranking for terms that the national brands and the listing sites have already bought. At some point you have to go get owners directly, and that means knowing who they are. Permit records solve that. Every person on a short-term-rental permit register has already made the decision you would otherwise spend months persuading them to make — they own a property and they have committed to renting it short-term. Your pitch is not "consider short-term renting." It is "let someone else run it." ## The timing insight that changes everything The instinct is to chase brand-new permits. Fresh filing, new operator, get there first. For management contracts, that instinct is wrong, and it is worth understanding why. Someone who has just filed for their first short-term-rental permit is, almost by definition, enthusiastic about self-managing. They have read the blogs. They have done the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet says a manager takes 20–25% of revenue, and at that moment the work looks entirely manageable. Pitching management to that person is pitching against their own recent decision, and you will lose. Now find the same person twelve to eighteen months later. They have handled a 2am lockout. They have had a cleaner cancel on a Friday in peak season. They have dealt with a bad review that took a week to sort out, and they have discovered that dynamic pricing is a real skill they do not have time to develop. They have also seen a full year of actual revenue, so the management fee is now measured against a real number rather than an optimistic projection. That is your prospect. Not the newest permits — the ones from a year or two ago. This is genuinely useful because it is counterintuitive. Your competitors, if they work permit data at all, are fighting over the newest filings. The much larger cohort of operators who are one hard season in is comparatively unworked. ## Building the target list Work in this order. Define your service area honestly. Not "the whole state" — the geography where you can actually get a cleaner to a property inside two hours. Permit records carry city and county, so this is a straightforward filter. Filter by filing date, not against it. Records filed 12–30 months ago are the core. Include older ones as a secondary tier: operators who have been at it three years are either running it well or thoroughly sick of it, and the second group converts fast. Separate whole-home from owner-occupied. Many registers distinguish these, and it matters enormously. Someone renting a spare room in the house they live in is not a management prospect. Someone with a whole-home permit on a property they do not live in almost certainly is — and if their mailing address is in a different city from the property, better still. Flag the multi-property owners. Group by owner name. Anyone with two or more permits is running a small portfolio, feeling operational strain more acutely than a single-property owner, and worth several times as much to you. Expect LLC names that do not group cleanly; it is worth eyeballing this list manually because it is short and valuable. Check what channel the market supports. This determines your entire outreach plan and it is decided by the register, not by you. Some markets publish phone numbers; many publish only addresses. Check before you build a phone team around a file that has no phones in it. ## What to actually say The mistake is leading with your feature list. Owners do not want a feature list. They want a specific problem to stop being theirs. Lead with the problem you know they have, given where they are in the lifecycle: "You've been running the place on Bayou Road for about a year and a half now. Most owners I talk to at that point have hit the same wall — the guest messages at midnight and the cleaner falling through on a turn day. That's the part we take off your plate." Three things are working there. You know something specific and verifiable about them. You have named a problem they have actually experienced rather than a generic one. And you have framed the offer as removing work, not adding a service. Some things to avoid. Do not lead with your fee — that is a comparison you lose in the abstract and win in context. Do not disparage self-management; they chose it, and telling them it was a mistake makes you an opponent. Do not claim you can raise their revenue by a specific percentage unless you can show the work. ## Direct mail, where phones are not published A lot of managers write off address-only markets. That is a mistake, because those markets are less worked precisely because they are inconvenient. A physical letter to a property owner about their specific property is an unusual piece of mail. It gets opened. Reference the address, reference roughly how long they have been permitted, keep it to one page, and give one clear next step. Response rates in this format are meaningfully better than cold email in the same market, mostly because nobody else is bothering. The one wrinkle: the permit gives you the property address, which may not be where the owner lives. Some registers include a separate mailing address, which is the one you want. Where they do not, a property-records lookup will usually get you there. ## A cadence that works Owner acquisition is a long game and the failure mode is giving up after one touch. A reasonable sequence for a manager: an opening letter or call, a second touch about two weeks later with something genuinely useful attached — a one-page market summary, a note on a local ordinance change — and then a quarterly cadence for anyone who did not say no outright. The quarterly rhythm matters more than any individual message, because your timing is not in your control. An owner who is perfectly happy in April may have had a disastrous July. The manager who is politely in front of them four times a year is the one who gets the call. Track everything in a CRM with the permit filing date attached, so you always know how long they have been at this and can pitch accordingly. ## Before you start dialing Two practical notes. Permit records are public, but that governs holding the data, not contacting people with it. The phone number on a permit application is very often the owner's personal mobile, which puts you closer to consumer telemarketing rules than the "it's B2B" assumption suggests. The compliance guide covers this properly and is worth reading before your first campaign, not after. And be realistic about volume. A market with 2,000 permits might yield 400 whole-home, non-owner-occupied properties in your service radius, of which perhaps 250 are in the right age band. That is not a list you blast — it is a list you work carefully over a year. Which is fine, because signing fifteen of them would probably transform your business. Coverage and record counts by state and market are here. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally - Pending vs. Granted ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/str-permit-requirements-by-state/ On this page Pattern 1: statewide licensingPattern 2: statewide tax registration, local permittingPattern 3: purely local (most of the country)Pattern 4: preempted — no permits at allThe pattern that matters commerciallyWhere this is heading 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Reference # Short-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. Published 2026-07-25 · 6 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page Pattern 1: statewide licensingPattern 2: statewide tax registration, local permittingPattern 3: purely local (most of the country)Pattern 4: preempted — no permits at allThe pattern that matters commerciallyWhere this is heading Orientation, not legal advice. Short-term-rental rules change constantly and the meaningful ones are usually local. This guide explains the structure — where permitting authority sits in each state and therefore where the public records live. If you need to know whether a specific property is compliant, check with that city or county directly. People ask which states require a short-term-rental permit. The honest answer is that in most of the country, states are not the ones requiring anything — cities and counties are. That single fact explains almost everything about why this data is so uneven. There are four structural patterns, and knowing which one a state follows tells you immediately what kind of records you can expect to find there. ## Pattern 1: statewide licensing A small number of states license short-term rentals at the state level. These produce the cleanest, most complete data in the country, because one agency holds one register covering the whole state. Florida. The Department of Business and Professional Regulation licenses vacation rentals statewide under Florida Statute 509.241. The requirement is triggered by renting a property more than three times a year for periods of less than 30 days, or by advertising it as available for such stays. Most operators need a Vacation Rental Dwelling licence; applications go through myfloridalicense.com and typically clear within a couple of business days without an upfront inspection. The consequence for data: Florida is a single statewide file rather than a patchwork of city registers, and because the licence application collects the licensee's contact details, most Florida records carry a phone number. We currently hold 52,029 Florida records, 38,719 of them contactable. Florida detail → Wisconsin. The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection licenses what state law calls a Tourist Rooming House — a residential dwelling rented for periods under 30 consecutive days and more than 10 nights a year. Licences run annually from 1 July, and a single licence covers up to four units; five or more requires a hotel licence. DATCP's updated rules took effect on 25 January 2026. Wisconsin's public licence file is the best-contact-quality dataset we carry anywhere — name, phone and email on most records. 12,919 records, 12,611 contactable. Note that Dane and Milwaukee counties license separately, so coverage there is thinner. Wisconsin detail → ## Pattern 2: statewide tax registration, local permitting More common: the state does not license the rental itself, but requires operators to register for a lodging or transaction tax. That tax roll is a public record, and it turns out to be an excellent proxy for who is operating. Texas. There is no statewide short-term-rental licence. What exists is the hotel occupancy tax, administered by the Comptroller, and short-term rentals fall within it. The resulting permit file is statewide and current, which is why Texas coverage reaches every beach town and hill-country market — Port Aransas, Galveston, South Padre Island, Fredericksburg — rather than only the big cities that run their own programs. The tradeoff is contact data: the tax roll publishes property and filing detail but almost no phone numbers. Texas is 47,323 records, overwhelmingly address-level, and one of the freshest files we hold. Treat it as a direct-mail and skip-trace dataset. Texas detail → Arizona. Arizona has no statewide short-term-rental permit. It does require every operator to hold a Transaction Privilege Tax licence from the Department of Revenue, which applies universally regardless of local rules. On top of that, state law allows cities to require a local licence — and Scottsdale's register, which publishes a phone number on nearly every record, is the backbone of our Arizona file. Arizona detail → ## Pattern 3: purely local (most of the country) This is the default. The state is silent, and every city and county decides for itself whether to require registration, what to ask for, and how much of it to publish. California is the clearest illustration. There is no state short-term-rental programme at all, so the California file is assembled register by register: San Diego's STRO licences, San Bernardino County's permits covering Big Bear and Joshua Tree, Sonoma County's vacation-rental permits, El Dorado County around South Lake Tahoe. Each has its own fields, its own update rhythm and its own decision about publishing contact details. 21,147 records in total. Tennessee works the same way — no statewide licensing system, no uniform standards, no preemption of local authority. Metro Nashville runs one of the largest city permit programs in the country, and it anchors our Tennessee coverage almost single-handedly. Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Mexico and Nevada all follow this pattern in our data: one or a handful of substantial municipal registers carrying the state's coverage. Two practical consequences of the local pattern: Coverage tracks administrative choices, not market size. A small resort town with a well-run open-data portal can be better documented than a metro area ten times its size whose county publishes nothing. Some real markets are simply dark. Sevier County, Tennessee — Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, thousands of permitted cabins — runs a genuine program and publishes essentially nothing online. Records like that exist and are public; obtaining them means a formal records request rather than a download. ## Pattern 4: preempted — no permits at all Two states have removed local permitting authority entirely, which means no registers exist to publish. Idaho. House Bill 583, signed 16 March 2026 and effective 1 July 2026, bars cities and counties from requiring a permit, licence, registration or fee to operate a short-term rental. It amends Idaho Code § 67-6539 and classifies short-term rentals as a "nontransient residential use" for zoning purposes. Local health and safety rules survive if applied equally to short- and long-term rentals. Iowa. House File 2641 (2020), codified at Iowa Code § 414.1, prevents cities from adopting ordinances specifically targeting short-term rentals, from requiring licences or permit fees for them, and from regulating them differently from other residential uses. We exclude both states from everything we sell, at the database level rather than as a display filter. The full explanation is here. ## The pattern that matters commercially Reduced to a single table, here is how structure maps to data: StructureData you getExamples Statewide licensingComplete, statewide, usually with contact detailsFlorida, Wisconsin Statewide tax registrationComplete, statewide, usually address-level onlyTexas, Arizona (TPT) Local permitting, publishedDeep in participating cities, absent elsewhereLouisiana, Tennessee, California, Colorado Local permitting, unpublishedRecords exist; require a public-records requestSevier County TN, many rural counties PreemptedNothing — no permits are requiredIdaho, Iowa If you are planning territory coverage, this is the thing to plan around. States in the first two rows give you everything at once. States in the third give you excellent depth in specific cities and nothing between them. The fourth requires patience and a records request. The fifth is closed. ## Where this is heading The preemption trend is worth watching. Idaho's 2026 law is the broadest so far, and similar bills have appeared in other legislatures, usually framed as protecting property rights against restrictive resort-town ordinances. If that continues, permit data will get scarcer in exactly the places where operating is easiest — which is a reason to work the markets that publish now rather than assuming the registers will always be there. Our live coverage, with record counts and contactability for all 26 states we carry, is on the coverage page. Every state page says plainly whether it is a phone-and-email file or an address-level one, before you buy anything. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Contacting STR Owners Legally - Pending vs. Granted ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/calling-str-owners-tcpa-dnc/ On this page The four rules that applyThe B2B assumption, and why it is dangerous hereWhat this means practicallyEmail is a gentler regimeDirect mailTwo things we will not doA workable starting posture 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Compliance # Contacting 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. Published 2026-07-25 · 6 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page The four rules that applyThe B2B assumption, and why it is dangerous hereWhat this means practicallyEmail is a gentler regimeDirect mailTwo things we will not doA workable starting posture This is not legal advice. It is a plain-English orientation to the rules that most often catch out companies doing short-term-rental outreach, written by a data company rather than a law firm. Telemarketing law is federal and state, it changes, and the penalties are per-call. If you are building a calling operation of any size, have a lawyer who does this for a living review your program before you start. Permit records are public. People reliably draw the wrong conclusion from that, which is that anything they do with the records must therefore be fine. Public-record status governs whether you may lawfully hold the data. It says nothing about how you may contact the person in it. Those are two separate bodies of law, and the second one is where the money is — the Telephone Consumer Protection Act carries statutory damages per violating call, class actions are routine, and "we bought the list from someone else" has never been a defence. ## The four rules that apply The TCPA governs calls and texts. Its sharpest teeth involve automated dialing and prerecorded messages, and calls to wireless numbers. The Telemarketing Sales Rule and the National Do Not Call Registry govern who you may call for telemarketing purposes and when. CAN-SPAM governs commercial email — far less onerous than the phone rules, but not nothing. State law sits on top of all of it, and several states are considerably stricter than the federal baseline. Florida and Oklahoma both have mini-TCPA statutes with their own consent requirements and their own private rights of action. ## The B2B assumption, and why it is dangerous here Here is the belief that gets short-term-rental vendors in trouble. People know, roughly, that business-to-business telemarketing sits outside some of the consumer rules. That is broadly true as far as it goes: the Telemarketing Sales Rule's Do-Not-Call provisions do not apply to calls to businesses, and live (non-automated) calls to a business landline generally do not require prior consent under the TCPA. Now look at what is actually in a short-term-rental permit record. The phone number on a permit application is, very often, the owner's personal mobile number. They are not a company with a switchboard. They are a schoolteacher who rents out a condo, and the number they wrote on the form is the phone in their pocket. Many permit programs specifically require a number that a human will answer around the clock, which pushes applicants toward exactly that. The moment the number is a personal wireless number, the comfortable B2B framing stops protecting you: - Calls and texts to wireless numbers using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice require prior express written consent for marketing — and that requirement does not evaporate because you consider the call business-to-business. - An individual who registered their personal number on the Do Not Call list has done so regardless of the fact that they also own a rental property. - Whether a given operator counts as "a business" at all is a judgement call, and it is not your judgement that matters if it is litigated. There is no blanket B2B exemption that makes short-term-rental outreach automatically compliant. Anyone who tells you otherwise is describing a simpler world than the one you are selling into. ## What this means practically Manual dialing is materially safer than automated dialing. The most severe TCPA exposure attaches to autodialers and prerecorded messages. A human being pressing the digits, having a live conversation, sits in a much better place. It is slower. It is also the reason a lot of successful operations in this space run small, well-trained phone teams rather than power dialers. Scrub against the Do Not Call registry. Access requires registering as a subscriber. If you are calling individuals — and in this dataset you frequently are — scrubbing is basic hygiene, and skipping it is the kind of shortcut that shows up in a demand letter. Keep records. Log which list a number came from, when you called, what happened, and every opt-out. If a complaint ever arrives, contemporaneous records are the difference between a nuisance and a serious problem. Honour opt-outs immediately and permanently. Maintain a suppression list that survives list refreshes. Re-importing a fresh file and calling someone who already told you to stop is one of the most common own goals in the industry. Respect calling hours. Federal rules restrict telemarketing calls to between 8am and 9pm in the recipient's time zone. Permit data includes the property address, so you have no excuse for getting the time zone wrong — though note the owner may not live where the property is. Check the state. Florida's mini-TCPA and Oklahoma's equivalent impose their own requirements, and other states have their own registries and restrictions. If a state is a big part of your plan, look it up specifically. ## Email is a gentler regime CAN-SPAM is much less demanding than the phone rules. It does not require prior consent. What it requires is: - Accurate headers and sender information — no forged "from" addresses or misleading routing. - A subject line that reflects what the message is actually about. - Identification of the message as an advertisement, where that is not otherwise obvious. - A valid physical postal address in the message. - A working, obvious way to opt out — and honouring opt-outs promptly, within ten business days. Two footnotes. First, the fact that CAN-SPAM permits unsolicited commercial email does not mean your email service provider does; most mainstream providers prohibit cold sending in their terms regardless of the law, and will close your account before a regulator ever notices you. Second, if you send to recipients outside the US, other regimes apply and several of them do require prior consent. ## Direct mail Physical mail to a property address is the least regulated of the three channels, and it happens to be the natural fit for the address-level markets where no phone number is published. If you are working Texas, Washington, Tennessee, Colorado or any of the other registers that publish addresses without contact details, mail is not a consolation prize — it is the channel the data was shaped for. ## Two things we will not do Worth stating plainly, because it explains some of what you will not find in our product. We do not scrub Do-Not-Call for you. DNC access is licensed to the organization doing the calling, and the scrub has to reflect your calling program, not ours. We tell you the data is unscrubbed rather than implying a clearance we cannot give. We do not sell Idaho or Iowa data, for a different reason: both states preempted local short-term-rental permitting, so the registers do not exist. Explanation here. Any vendor offering those states is selling you something other than permit records. ## A workable starting posture For most companies selling into this market, a defensible program looks like this: manual dialing rather than an autodialer, a DNC scrub before every campaign, a permanent suppression list, calling hours based on the recipient's time zone, careful attention to the stricter states, complete records of everything, and a lawyer who has read your actual scripts and process. None of that is exotic, and none of it slows a good operation down much. What it does do is keep a channel that works from turning into a liability — which matters, because permit data is one of the few genuinely durable lead sources in this industry, and it would be a shame to burn it on a shortcut. Our full customer terms, including the licence and your compliance obligations, are on the terms page. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Pending vs. Granted ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/pending-vs-granted-permits/ On this page The permit lifecyclePending applicationsRecently grantedWho should care, and how muchMulti-property ownersWorking it in practice 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Strategy # Pending 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. Published 2026-07-25 · 5 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page The permit lifecyclePending applicationsRecently grantedWho should care, and how muchMulti-property ownersWorking it in practice There is a field in every short-term-rental permit record that most buyers never filter on, and it is worth more than the phone number. The filing date tells you where an operator is in their lifecycle. Someone who filed three weeks ago has not chosen a cleaner, has not bought furniture, has not decided whether to self-manage, and has not sorted out insurance. Someone who filed in 2021 settled every one of those questions years ago and has an incumbent supplier for each of them. Same dataset. Completely different sales conversation. Most people work it as though every record were identical. ## The permit lifecycle Strip out the local variation and a short-term rental goes through roughly five stages: 1. Decision. Someone decides to rent the property short-term. Invisible in the data — nothing has been filed yet. 2. Application. They file for a permit. This is the earliest point at which they become visible to you, and in registers that publish pending applications, you can see them here. 3. Approval. The permit is granted. Depending on the jurisdiction this takes days or months. 4. Setup. Furniture, photography, listing creation, locks, insurance, a cleaning arrangement, pricing. Most purchasing decisions in the entire lifecycle happen here. 5. Operation. The property is live. Suppliers are chosen. Switching now requires dissatisfaction with an incumbent. Nearly all the commercial value sits between stages 2 and 4, and that window is usually a matter of weeks. ## Pending applications Some registers publish applications before approval. New Orleans, for instance, maintains a public register of short-term-rental permit applications distinct from its register of active licences. A pending application is the strongest buying signal available in this dataset. The person has committed — they have filled in the form, paid the fee, and in many places had to satisfy conditions before applying. They are weeks from needing everything, and no supplier has reached them yet. There are 3,856 pending applications in the database right now. It is a small fraction of the total, and that is the point: it is the fraction where a first-mover advantage still exists. Two things to keep in mind. First, pending is perishable — it becomes granted, or occasionally denied, and either way the status changes. If you are going to work this segment, work it on a short cycle, not quarterly. Second, not every register publishes pending status, so this is a market-by-market opportunity rather than a national one. ## Recently granted The bigger and more reliably available segment is permits granted in the last few months. The urgency is slightly lower than pending, but the volume is far higher and the buying is still ahead of them. 23,590 records in the database carry a filing date within the last twelve months. Some markets skew heavily fresh because the program itself is young — Chicago's shared-housing register and Columbus's short-term-rental licences are both dominated by recent filings, which makes them unusually good hunting for anyone selling to new operators. ## Who should care, and how much Recency is not equally valuable to everyone. Roughly: If you sellBest segmentWhy Furniture, staging, setupPending & <60 daysThe purchase happens once, right at the start. After setup you have missed it entirely. STR insurancePending & <90 daysMany programs require proof of coverage, so the need is immediate — and renewal gives you a second window a year later. Photography, listing setup<60 daysNeeded before the first booking. Worthless after the listing is live and performing. Cleaning & turnover<90 days, then anytimeBest at the start, but cleaner churn is high enough that established operators are worth calling too. Property management, co-hosting6–24 monthsCounterintuitive: brand-new owners want to self-manage. They reconsider after a season of it. More here. PMS & softwareAny, skewed 3–18 monthsNobody buys software before they have felt the problem. Once they own two properties, they will. Tax & accountingAny, seasonalDriven by the calendar, not the permit — first tax season after the first rental year is the moment. Lending12+ monthsExpansion capital is a second-property conversation, and that comes after a year of returns. The pattern: services needed to start operating want the freshest possible records. Services needed to keep operating better want operators with a season or two behind them. ## Multi-property owners One more segmentation worth doing. Someone holding several permits in the same market is running a small business, not a side project. They buy differently — more likely to want software, professional management and financing, less likely to be shopping on price alone, and worth substantially more over their lifetime. You can identify them by grouping records on owner name, allowing for the fact that a lot of them file through LLCs and the entity names will not match neatly. ## Working it in practice A workable approach for a small team looks like this: Set a cadence that matches the perishability. If you sell to new operators, pull the newly filed records every week or two, not once a quarter. The segment refreshes constantly and goes stale just as fast. Write to the stage, not to the industry. "Congratulations on the new permit — most new hosts in New Orleans tell us the hardest part is finding a reliable cleaner before the first booking" lands very differently from a generic services pitch. You know something specific and true about their situation, because the government record told you. Track filing date in your CRM. It is the field that tells you when to follow up and what to say. A prospect who was too early for your offer in March may be exactly right in September. Do not confuse fresh with contactable. The freshest markets are not always the ones with published phone numbers — Texas and Chicago both file heavily and publish almost no contact details. Match the segment to the channel you can actually run. The filtering workspace supports both filters: filed-since date and contactability, per state. That combination is where most of the value in this dataset actually lives. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/airbnb-lead-sources-compared/ On this page The four categoriesListing scrapersMarket analyticsGeneral data brokersPermit recordsHow to chooseQuestions worth asking any vendor 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Comparison # Airbnb 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. Published 2026-07-25 · 5 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page The four categoriesListing scrapersMarket analyticsGeneral data brokersPermit recordsHow to chooseQuestions worth asking any vendor Four kinds of company will sell you "Airbnb data," and they are selling four different things. Most disappointment in this market comes from buying one and expecting another. We sell one of these, so read the last section with appropriate scepticism. The comparison itself is straightforward enough that it does not need slanting. ## The four categories CategoryWhat it actually isRight forWrong for Listing scrapers Data harvested from listing pages: titles, photos, amenities, calendars, review counts, approximate location Competitive research, pricing analysis, product features Contacting anyone — there is no verified name or address in it Market analytics Modelled occupancy, ADR and revenue estimates, by market or property Investment decisions, market entry, pricing strategy Outreach — it is not a contact database and never claimed to be General data brokers Consumer marketing files matched to something STR-adjacent, resold repeatedly Cheap volume when accuracy is not critical Anything where a wrong number costs you Permit records Government licensing filings: owner name, property address, permit, status, filing date, sometimes phone/email Direct outreach to verified operators Revenue estimates, unpermitted operators, two preempted states ## Listing scrapers Scraped listing data is genuinely useful for the job it does. If you are building a pricing tool, benchmarking amenities, or trying to understand what inventory looks like in a market, listing data is the primary source and there is no substitute. What it cannot do is tell you who to call. A listing gives you a first name, a profile photo and a location circle a few hundred metres wide. The platform deliberately withholds identity, and every technique for recovering it — photo matching, review mining, parcel triangulation — is slow, error-prone and expensive relative to the alternatives. There is also a durability problem. Scraping at volume runs against platform terms and anti-bot measures that change without notice. A pipeline that worked last quarter may not work this quarter. Buy it if you need to understand inventory and pricing. Don't buy it as a contact list, whatever the sales page implies. ## Market analytics AirDNA is the best-known name here and the product is good. It answers questions like: what does a two-bedroom in this zip code earn, how seasonal is this market, is occupancy trending up or down. These tools are built for investors deciding whether to buy, and they are honest about it. The confusion is entirely on the buyer's side — people hear "short-term rental data" and assume contact records, then find a market dashboard. The estimates are also estimates. They are modelled from listing and booking signals, and they are reasonable at market level and progressively less reliable as you drill down to individual properties. That is fine for their purpose and worth knowing. Buy it if you make investment or pricing decisions. Don't buy it for a sales team. ## General data brokers This is the category to be careful in, because the products are opaque by design. The pattern is a consumer marketing database — assembled from purchase histories, surveys, public records and other broker files — matched against some short-term-rental signal, then packaged as "Airbnb host leads." Sometimes there is a real signal underneath. Often the match is loose, the file is years old, and the same rows have been sold to everyone in your industry already. Two warning signs. First, unwillingness to name a source: a vendor who cannot tell you which register or filing a record came from is telling you it did not come from one. Second, contact rates that are impossibly high — a "97% phone match" on a dataset whose underlying public records mostly do not publish phone numbers means an append vendor guessed, and appended phone numbers in this category are frequently the wrong person entirely. A wrong number is not neutral. It costs a call, it annoys a stranger, and under the wrong circumstances it creates a compliance problem you did not budget for. Buy it if you have tested a sample and it holds up. Don't buy it on the strength of a coverage claim alone. ## Permit records Which brings us to what we do. Permit data has one structural advantage over everything above: the operator identified themselves to a government agency, under their own name, at a specific address, on a specific date. Nothing is inferred. There is no matching step where errors creep in. It also has four real limitations, and any vendor who does not volunteer them is not being straight with you. Coverage follows administration, not market size. Permitting is local, so data quality tracks the publishing decisions of individual records offices. Florida licenses vacation rentals at the state level under Florida Statute 509.241, so its coverage is statewide. California has no state program, so its file is assembled city by city and county by county. Some large markets publish nothing machine-readable at all. Contactability varies enormously. This is the big one. Of 275,665 records in our database, 111,698 carry a phone or email — and that third is not evenly spread. Louisiana and Wisconsin publish contact details on most records. Texas publishes almost none. Both are useful; they support completely different outreach. Unpermitted operators are invisible. People who rent without registering do not appear in a register. In markets with hard caps and long waitlists, that population is not trivial. No performance data. A permit record cannot tell you whether a property books solidly or sat empty. If you need that, you need the analytics category, and the two are complements rather than substitutes. And two states have nothing at all: Idaho and Iowa have both preempted local short-term-rental permitting, so no registers exist. Detail here. ## How to choose The question is not which category is best. It is which one answers your question. "Should I buy a property in this market?" — Market analytics. "What are competitors charging and what amenities do they list?" — Listing data. "Who runs short-term rentals here and how do I reach them?" — Permit records. "I need 50,000 rows and I don't much care about accuracy." — A broker will sell you that, and you should test a sample before you scale. Plenty of companies use two of these together. Analytics tells you which markets are growing; permit data tells you who to call in them. That combination is more sensible than trying to make either one do the other's job. ## Questions worth asking any vendor - Where does each record come from? A specific answer — a named register, agency or portal — or the deal is off. - When was it last refreshed, and how? "Continuously from the source" and "we bought a file in 2023" are different products. - What percentage has a phone or email, in my states? National averages hide everything that matters. - Are contact details from the source or appended? Appended data in this category has a poor accuracy record. - What are you missing? An honest vendor has a ready answer. A vendor claiming complete national coverage of local permit data is describing something that does not exist. Ours, for the record: 26 states rather than 50, roughly a third of records contactable with wide state-by-state variation, nothing on unpermitted operators, and no revenue estimates. The per-state numbers are all published. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/idaho-iowa-str-permit-data/ On this page Idaho: House Bill 583Iowa: House File 2641Why this leaves a hole rather than a gapWhat honest coverage looks likeWhat to do if you sell into those markets 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Reference # Why 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. Published 2026-07-25 · 5 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page Idaho: House Bill 583Iowa: House File 2641Why this leaves a hole rather than a gapWhat honest coverage looks likeWhat to do if you sell into those markets Two states are missing from every list we sell, and the reason is not squeamishness or a licensing dispute. It is that the records do not exist. Idaho and Iowa have both stripped their cities and counties of the power to require short-term-rental permits. No permit requirement means no permit applications, no register, and nothing to publish. A vendor offering you Idaho or Iowa "STR permit data" is either selling you something else entirely or selling you a file that has been stale since the law changed. ## Idaho: House Bill 583 Idaho has been moving in this direction for years. A 2017 law already stopped cities from banning short-term rentals outright, but it left them room to require permits, charge fees, cap density and impose conditions — and several resort communities used that room aggressively enough that operating became impractical. House Bill 583 closed the gap. Governor Brad Little signed it on 16 March 2026, and it took effect on 1 July 2026. It amends section 67-6539 of the Idaho Code, and it is the broadest state preemption of local short-term-rental regulation in the country. The core of it: cities and counties may no longer require a permit, licence, registration or fee to operate a short-term rental. The law also classifies short-term rentals as a "nontransient residential use," which means for zoning purposes a short-term rental is treated the same as a long-term rental or an ordinary single-family home. Local governments retain real authority over health and safety, provided they apply the same rules to short-term and long-term rentals alike. Smoke alarms in sleeping areas, carbon monoxide detectors and fire extinguishers on each floor, escape ladders, occupancy limits under the state building code, emergency information for guests — all still permitted. So are the ordinances that apply to everyone: noise, parking, nuisance, traffic. What is gone is the registration layer, and the registration layer is what produced the data. ## Iowa: House File 2641 Iowa got there six years earlier and by a similar route. House File 2641, enacted in 2020, added the relevant restrictions to Iowa Code section 414.1. Under it, Iowa cities cannot adopt ordinances, regulations or restrictions that specifically target short-term rental properties; cannot require a licence or permit fee for them; and cannot regulate them differently from other residential uses. There are narrow health and safety exceptions, but preserving residential housing stock — the rationale several cities wanted to use — is explicitly not among them. The practical effect matches Idaho's. Iowa municipalities do not maintain short-term-rental permit registers because they are not permitted to require the permits that would populate them. ## Why this leaves a hole rather than a gap It is worth being precise about the mechanism, because it explains why no amount of effort on our part would fix it. Permit data exists as a by-product of regulation. A city decides operators must register. Operators fill in forms. The city keeps those forms as records. State public-records law makes the records available. We collect and normalize them. Remove the first link and the entire chain fails. There is no public register to request, no open-data endpoint to poll, no clerk to file a records request with. The information about who runs a short-term rental in Boise or Des Moines was never collected by anyone. This is different from the many markets that have permit programs but publish nothing online. Those are recoverable — the records exist, and a formal public-records request will eventually produce them. Idaho and Iowa are not a distribution problem. They are an absence. ## What honest coverage looks like Our database currently holds 275,665 records across 26 states. It is 26 and not 48 or 50 because two states have nothing to give, and we would rather say so on the pricing page than let you discover it after you have paid. Every query the system runs excludes Idaho and Iowa at the database level. Not filtered at the front end, not excluded by convention — the exclusion is in the code that builds every count, every preview and every export. There is no combination of filters that returns an Idaho record, because there are no Idaho records. If a vendor offers you these states, ask one question: what is the source register, by name? For a state that has legally abolished the registration requirement, there is no answer. What you are most likely being sold is either pre-2020 Iowa data that has not reflected reality in six years, or a consumer marketing file with a short-term-rental label on it. ## What to do if you sell into those markets Short-term rentals obviously still operate in Idaho and Iowa. McCall, Sun Valley, Coeur d'Alene and the Iowa lake towns all have real inventory. What is gone is the register, not the market. So the answer is the same set of alternatives that apply anywhere permit data is unavailable: - County property records, filtered as best you can. Weak targeting, authoritative ownership data, and cheap. See the tradeoffs in our overview of the seven approaches. - Local partnerships — cleaners, photographers, handymen, suppliers. Slow to build, and in a market with no data moat, disproportionately valuable. - Lodging tax records, where a state still collects them centrally. Preemption of local permitting does not always mean the elimination of tax registration, and tax rolls sometimes survive where permit registers do not. It is worth checking the current position with the relevant state agency rather than assuming either way. And a strategic note: the preemption trend is real and it is not confined to these two states. Legislatures in several states have considered similar bills, usually framed as property-rights protection against restrictive resort-town ordinances. If that continues, the supply of short-term-rental permit data will shrink in exactly the places where operators are least regulated. Which is an argument, if you need one, for working the markets that publish today rather than waiting. Coverage by state is here. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/florida-vacation-rental-licenses/ On this page What counts as a vacation rental in FloridaWho issues the licenseWhat the license file containsHouses and condosWhere Florida's licenses areWho holds the licensesWhat the license file leaves outUsing the Florida file 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Florida # How 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. Published 2026-10-04 · 5 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page What counts as a vacation rental in FloridaWho issues the licenseWhat the license file containsHouses and condosWhere Florida's licenses areWho holds the licensesWhat the license file leaves outUsing the Florida file Florida licenses vacation rentals at the state level. Under Chapter 509 of the Florida Statutes, a vacation rental is a public lodging establishment, and each one needs a license from the Division of Hotels and Restaurants, part of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). As of 2026-10-08, PermitPulse holds 52,029 Florida short-term-rental records, 49,712 of them from the DBPR vacation-rental license file, and 38,710 list a phone number. That makes Florida one of the few states where a single public file covers short-term rentals everywhere, from the Panhandle to the Keys. This guide explains what the law counts as a vacation rental, what the license file contains, what it leaves out, and how the numbers break down by town. ## What counts as a vacation rental in Florida Florida defines the term in section 509.242(1)(c): 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. "Transient" is defined in section 509.013(4)(a)1: a unit rented to guests more than three times in a calendar year for periods of less than 30 consecutive days. A house or condo rented out that often for short stays falls inside the definition, which is why the license file reaches far beyond professional operators to individual owners with one property. ## Who issues the license Section 509.241 requires each public lodging establishment to obtain a license from the Division of Hotels and Restaurants before it operates. Licenses are renewed annually on a staggered schedule the division sets by rule. For vacation rentals, the statute also requires the licensee to report a change in the street or unit address, or in the number of houses or units under the license, within 30 days. The practical result for anyone selling to hosts: the state keeps a current, renewed list of who holds each vacation-rental license and where the property is. Cities and counties can add their own registration programs on top, but the state license is the common layer. ## What the license file contains Here is what the Florida records in PermitPulse carry, counted across the 52,029 Florida records as of 2026-10-08: FieldFlorida records with it License numberEvery DBPR record Licensee nameEvery DBPR record Property address and ZIPEvery DBPR record License class (dwelling or condominium)49,712 Phone38,710 (74%) Email460 Filing or issue date390 Two gaps stand out. Email is close to absent, so Florida outreach runs on phone and mail. And the file carries almost no filing dates, so you cannot sort Florida licenses by age the way you can in Texas or Nashville. Our export adds a first-seen date, which records when each license first appeared in our database; for a subscriber pulling monthly, that is how new Florida licenses show up. ## Houses and condos Each Florida license is coded with a class. The two that matter are DWEL, a dwelling (house), and CNDO, a unit in a condominium. Statewide the split is: License classLicensesWith a phone Dwelling (DWEL)34,81926,835 Condominium (CNDO)14,89311,401 Houses outnumber condos about 2.3 to 1 across the state, but the mix swings hard by town. The condo and house guide ranks every Florida city file by its split. ## Where Florida's licenses are The license file is statewide, but the rentals are not spread evenly. These are the largest Florida towns in PermitPulse, counted from the city on each license after spelling variants are merged: #TownLicensesWith a phone 1Panama City Beach3,87783% 2Kissimmee2,78876% 3Davenport2,39775% 4Fort Lauderdale1,95674% 5Miami Beach1,79571% 6Miami1,79280% 7Hollywood1,33969% 8Santa Rosa Beach1,13281% 9St. Augustine1,08881% 10Naples1,06770% 11Cape Coral1,05072% 12Sarasota1,03376% 13Bradenton1,00476% 14Destin90074% 15Miramar Beach78180% The top ten towns hold 19,231 licenses, 37% of the Florida file. Panama City Beach leads. Every town on this list has its own page with ZIP counts and the house and condo split; the full ranking is in Florida cities with the most licensed vacation rentals. ## Who holds the licenses Because every DBPR record names the licensee, you can see how concentrated the market is. Counting each licensee name against the number of different property addresses it holds, 5,747 Florida records sit under a name that appears on two or more addresses, and 996 under names with ten or more. The largest single licensee name appears on 86 addresses. The rest of the file, most of it, is individual owners with one licensed property. A licensee is whoever applied for the license. That can be the owner, or a management company licensing the units it runs. The multi-property owner guide covers how to tell them apart and what the counts can and cannot show. ## What the license file leaves out - Bookings and revenue. A license says a property is set up to rent short-term. It does not say how often it books or what it earns. - Bedrooms, pools and amenities. None of these are on the license. - Who manages the property. The licensee may be the owner or a manager; the file does not say which. - Local registration. Some Florida cities and counties run their own registration programs on top of the state license. PermitPulse carries one county layer, Collier County's registration compliance data, which records whether a parcel has a valid registration rather than who to call. ## Using the Florida file - Pick your towns. Start from the Florida page or a city page and check the count, the phone coverage and the ZIP codes. - Choose houses or condos. The export can be filtered by license type; houses are labelled "Vacation rental - house" and condos "Vacation rental - condo". - Separate portfolios from individual owners. Group by licensee name before you call, so a company with forty licenses gets one conversation, not forty. - Check compliance before dialing. Most Florida phones in the file belong to the licensee and many are personal mobiles. Scrub against Do Not Call lists and follow the TCPA; the compliance guide covers the basics. Sources. Statute text was checked on the Florida Legislature's website on 2026-10-04 (sections 509.013, 509.241 and 509.242, Florida Statutes 2026). Counts come from the live PermitPulse database and refresh with every site build. This guide is general information, not legal advice. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. 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A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/florida-cities-most-vacation-rentals/ On this page The rankingHow concentrated the market isPhone coverage by townHouses against condosWhere the large operators areHow the ranking is builtGetting a town's list 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Florida # Florida 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. Published 2026-10-04 · 5 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page The rankingHow concentrated the market isPhone coverage by townHouses against condosWhere the large operators areHow the ranking is builtGetting a town's list Panama City Beach has the most licensed vacation rentals of any Florida town in PermitPulse, with 3,877 licenses as of 2026-10-08, followed by Kissimmee (2,788) and Davenport (2,397). The counts come from Florida's DBPR vacation-rental license file, grouped by the town on each license after spelling variants are merged. Florida licenses every vacation rental at the state level (the licensing guide explains the law), so a town-by-town count is possible here in a way it is not in most states. Below is the full ranking for every Florida town with at least 100 licenses, then what stands out in it. ## The ranking #TownLicensesWith a phoneHouse share 1Panama City Beach (market page)3,87783%see page 2Kissimmee2,78876%83% 3Davenport2,39775%91% 4Fort Lauderdale (market page)1,95674%see page 5Miami Beach (market page)1,79571%see page 6Miami1,79280%42% 7Hollywood1,33969%49% 8Santa Rosa Beach1,13281%82% 9St. Augustine1,08881%83% 10Naples1,06770%78% 11Cape Coral1,05072%97% 12Sarasota1,03376%85% 13Bradenton1,00476%84% 14Destin90074%53% 15Miramar Beach78180%60% 16Indian Rocks Beach68379%58% 17Marathon65580%85% 18Orlando65189%39% 19Sunny Isles Beach58572%5% 20Pompano Beach54074%88% 21Pensacola52682%86% 22Inlet Beach52182%88% 23Tampa52175%91% 24Jacksonville49775%94% 25Palm Coast49483%83% 26Fort Myers Beach47384%64% 27Largo45678%97% 28West Palm Beach43978%92% 29Marco Island40665%64% 30Jacksonville Beach40274%84% 31Clearwater37669%79% 32Key West37583%51% 33Panama City36086%72% 34Port Charlotte35075%94% 35Port St. Joe32886%95% 36St. Petersburg32778%76% 37Punta Gorda31979%79% 38Englewood31873%75% 39Seminole31773%99% 40Cocoa Beach30775%61% 41Fernandina Beach30077%37% 42Holmes Beach28782%64% 43Deerfield Beach27868%82% 44Bradenton Beach27377%47% 45Key Largo26881%52% 46Clermont26277%94% 47Fort Walton Beach26281%43% 48Fort Myers25074%71% 49The Villages24888%100% 50Wilton Manors22975%94% 51Oakland Park22571%88% 52Navarre22485%78% 53Palm Harbor22375%87% 54Bonita Springs22261%75% 55Tallahassee21582%91% 56Rotonda West19476%95% 57Ocala18288%96% 58Islamorada17180%80% 59Haines City16980%96% 60Anna Maria16576%93% 61Madeira Beach16570%21% 62Gainesville15973%81% 63Key Colony Beach15982%84% 64Cape Canaveral15880%53% 65Boynton Beach15586%70% 66Ponte Vedra Beach15372%84% 67Aventura15177%5% 68Hallandale Beach14473%62% 69New Smyrna Beach14472%37% 70Wellington14382%92% 71Venice14176%80% 72Gulf Breeze13987%79% 73Crystal River13487%93% 74Delray Beach13476%90% 75Fort Pierce13178%50% 76Flagler Beach13073%65% 77Treasure Island12465%31% 78Vero Beach12480%91% 79Dunnellon11681%93% 80Lakeland11173%96% 81Dania Beach10472%99% 82Dunedin10277%73% 83Daytona Beach10155%26% "House share" is the percentage of dwelling (DWEL) licenses against dwelling plus condominium (CNDO) licenses. Towns marked "market page" are counted on a market page that also includes their neighbors, so their house split is shown there. ## How concentrated the market is The 83 towns in the table hold 42,994 of the 52,029 Florida records, and the top ten alone hold 19,231. The rest is spread across hundreds of smaller towns, each under 100 licenses, which are still in the Florida file and can be pulled by city at export. Three clusters show up again and again near the top of the list: the Disney corridor around Kissimmee, Davenport and Orlando; the Panhandle beaches from Pensacola to Port St. Joe, including Destin, Miramar Beach, Santa Rosa Beach and Panama City Beach; and the southeast coast from Miami to West Palm Beach. The Gulf coast from Clearwater down to Naples adds a long line of mid-sized towns. ## Phone coverage by town Statewide, 74% of Florida records list a phone. Coverage is fairly even from town to town because it comes from the same state file, but it is not identical: Orlando has the highest share of any Florida city page at 89%. Each city page compares its phone coverage with the state figure and shows it ZIP by ZIP. ## Houses against condos The house and condo split varies more than anything else in the file. Sunny Isles Beach is the most condo-heavy Florida city file, with 95% condominium licenses, while The Villages sits at the other end with 100% houses. The full comparison, town by town, is in vacation rental condos vs. houses in Florida. ## Where the large operators are Counting how many different property addresses each licensee name holds shows where management companies and larger investors cluster. These Florida towns have the most records under names that hold ten or more Florida properties: TownLicensesUnder names with 10+ properties Davenport2,397108 Destin90060 Santa Rosa Beach1,13249 Miramar Beach78145 Naples1,06742 Miami1,79236 Indian Rocks Beach68336 Inlet Beach52128 In those towns a meaningful share of licenses sits with large operators, which matters if you are a property manager (those owners are taken) or a software vendor (those are your buyers). The multi-property owner guide explains the method. ## How the ranking is built - Source. Florida's DBPR vacation-rental license file, plus a small city-level license list for Orlando. - Town. The city on the license. Spellings are merged ("St. Augustine", "St Augustine" and "Saint Augustine" count as one town), and rows whose ZIP code sits outside Florida are dropped. - Unit. One license is one record. Florida lets one license cover several houses or units, so a license that covers several counts once. - Freshness. Counts refresh from the live database every time this site is built; these are as of 2026-10-08. ## Getting a town's list Every Florida town is in the Florida file: $99 a month with exports you can filter by city, or $149 once for the whole state. Start from a town's page to see the count, the ZIP codes and the license mix before you buy. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/florida-vacation-rental-condos-vs-houses/ On this page Why the split mattersCondo-heavy Florida townsHouse-heavy Florida townsEvery Florida city filePhone coverage by classHow to pull one class 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Florida # Vacation 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. Published 2026-10-04 · 5 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page Why the split mattersCondo-heavy Florida townsHouse-heavy Florida townsEvery Florida city filePhone coverage by classHow to pull one class Florida's vacation-rental license file codes every license as a dwelling (DWEL, a house) or a condominium unit (CNDO). Statewide, 34,819 licenses are houses and 14,893 are condos as of 2026-10-08, so houses make up 70%. Town by town the split ranges from 95% condos in Sunny Isles Beach to 100% houses in The Villages. For anyone selling to vacation-rental owners, that split decides the pitch. A condo owner shares a building and a set of association rules with other owners; a house owner is responsible for the whole property. This guide ranks every Florida city file by its mix and explains who should care. ## Why the split matters - Cleaning and turnovers. A condo turnover and a house turnover take different crews, supplies and time. A condo-heavy town also packs more licensed units into fewer buildings, which shortens a route. - Insurance. A condo unit and a house are insured differently, so the license class tells an agent which product leads the call. - Pools, hot tubs and outdoor work. A private pool, a yard or a roof belongs to a house. Condo units generally share building amenities run by an association, which is a different sale. - Property management. A condo association can set its own rules on short-term renting and on who manages units, so a manager pitching condo owners may also be dealing with the building. ## Condo-heavy Florida towns 13 Florida city files have more condominium licenses than dwelling licenses: TownCondo licensesHouse licensesCondo share Sunny Isles Beach5562795% Aventura143895% Madeira Beach1303579% Daytona Beach752674% Treasure Island853969% Fernandina Beach18911163% New Smyrna Beach915363% Orlando1318361% Miami1,04274958% Fort Walton Beach14911357% Bradenton Beach14412853% Hollywood68365651% Fort Pierce656650% For a cleaning company or a property manager, a condo-heavy town is dense: several licensed units can sit in the same building, and the ZIP tables on each city page show how tightly they cluster. ## House-heavy Florida towns 43 city files are at least 80% houses: TownHouse licensesCondo licensesHouse share Kissimmee2,29748683% Davenport2,18321391% Cape Coral1,0133697% Santa Rosa Beach93319982% St. Augustine90618283% Sarasota87615785% Bradenton84815684% Marathon55410185% Pompano Beach4776288% Tampa4724891% Jacksonville4692894% Inlet Beach4566588% Pensacola4507686% Largo4411597% Palm Coast4098583% West Palm Beach4043492% Jacksonville Beach3376584% Port Charlotte3282294% Seminole315299% Port St. Joe3131595% The Villages2471100% Clermont2441594% Deerfield Beach2285082% Wilton Manors2161394% Oakland Park1962888% Tallahassee1961991% Palm Harbor1952887% Rotonda West185995% Ocala174896% Haines City162796% Anna Maria1541193% Islamorada1363580% Key Colony Beach1342584% Wellington1321192% Gainesville1283181% Ponte Vedra Beach1282484% Crystal River1241093% Delray Beach1211390% Venice1132880% Vero Beach1131191% Dunnellon108893% Lakeland107496% Dania Beach103199% These are the towns where whole-home vacation rentals dominate. Kissimmee has the most licensed houses of any town in this group. For pool, hot tub, HVAC, pest and landscaping services, a house-heavy town is the place to start. ## Every Florida city file All 80 Florida towns with a city page, from most condo-heavy to most house-heavy: TownLicensesCondo shareHouse share Sunny Isles Beach58395%5% Aventura15195%5% Madeira Beach16579%21% Daytona Beach10174%26% Treasure Island12469%31% Fernandina Beach30063%37% New Smyrna Beach14463%37% Orlando21461%39% Miami1,79158%42% Fort Walton Beach26257%43% Bradenton Beach27253%47% Hollywood1,33951%49% Fort Pierce13150%50% Key West37449%51% Key Largo26748%52% Destin90047%53% Cape Canaveral15847%53% Indian Rocks Beach68342%58% Miramar Beach77940%60% Cocoa Beach30739%61% Hallandale Beach14438%62% Fort Myers Beach47336%64% Marco Island40636%64% Holmes Beach28636%64% Flagler Beach13035%65% Boynton Beach15530%70% Fort Myers25029%71% Panama City36028%72% Dunedin10227%73% Englewood31725%75% Bonita Springs22225%75% St. Petersburg32624%76% Naples1,06722%78% Navarre22422%78% Clearwater37621%79% Punta Gorda31921%79% Gulf Breeze13921%79% Islamorada17120%80% Venice14120%80% Gainesville15919%81% Santa Rosa Beach1,13218%82% Deerfield Beach27818%82% Kissimmee2,78317%83% St. Augustine1,08817%83% Palm Coast49417%83% Bradenton1,00416%84% Jacksonville Beach40216%84% Key Colony Beach15916%84% Ponte Vedra Beach15216%84% Sarasota1,03315%85% Marathon65515%85% Pensacola52614%86% Palm Harbor22313%87% Pompano Beach53912%88% Inlet Beach52112%88% Oakland Park22412%88% Delray Beach13410%90% Davenport2,3969%91% Tampa5209%91% Tallahassee2159%91% Vero Beach1249%91% West Palm Beach4388%92% Wellington1438%92% Anna Maria1657%93% Crystal River1347%93% Dunnellon1167%93% Jacksonville4976%94% Port Charlotte3506%94% Clermont2596%94% Wilton Manors2296%94% Port St. Joe3285%95% Rotonda West1945%95% Ocala1824%96% Haines City1694%96% Lakeland1114%96% Cape Coral1,0493%97% Largo4563%97% Seminole3171%99% Dania Beach1041%99% The Villages2480%100% ## Phone coverage by class Statewide, 26,835 of the 34,819 house licenses (77%) and 11,401 of the 14,893 condo licenses (77%) list a phone. The license class makes little difference to whether you can call; the town and the licensee matter more. ## How to pull one class - Open the Florida plan or buy the Florida file once for $149. - Filter the export by city, then by permit type: house licenses are labelled "Vacation rental - house" and condo licenses "Vacation rental - condo". - Group the result by licensee name, so a company holding many units in one building is one contact. What the class does not tell you. A DWEL license covers single-family to four-family houses and dwelling units; it does not say whether the home has a pool, how many bedrooms it has, or whether it is part of a gated community. A CNDO license says the unit is in a condominium or cooperative, not how many units the building has. Treat the class as a first filter. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/find-airbnb-owners-in-a-city/ On this page 1. Find the register that covers the city2. Check what the register publishes3. Clean the city name4. Drop the rows that are not in the city5. Separate hotels and other businesses6. Break the list down by ZIP7. Group the owners8. Contact them legallyThe shortcut 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Playbook # How 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. Published 2026-10-04 · 4 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page 1. Find the register that covers the city2. Check what the register publishes3. Clean the city name4. Drop the rows that are not in the city5. Separate hotels and other businesses6. Break the list down by ZIP7. Group the owners8. Contact them legallyThe shortcut To find the owners of short-term rentals in one city, start from the public register that covers it, clean the city name, check which contact details that register publishes, then work the list ZIP code by ZIP code. PermitPulse has done that for 127 U.S. cities as of 2026-10-08; this guide shows the method with their real numbers, so you can judge a city before you buy its list or build one yourself. Booking sites do not publish who owns a listing. Permit and license registers do: the name on the permit, the property address and, in many places, a phone or email. The work is in getting from a state or city register to a clean list for one town. ## 1. Find the register that covers the city Short-term rentals are registered at three levels, and the level decides what you get: - Statewide license files. Florida (DBPR vacation-rental licenses) and Wisconsin (DATCP tourist rooming house licenses) license short-term rentals everywhere in the state. Every town is in one file. - Statewide tax rolls. Texas has no statewide STR license, but its hotel occupancy tax applies to rented houses and condos as well as hotels, so the permit roll lists rentals in towns across the state, mixed in with hotels. - City and county registers. Nashville, New Orleans, San Diego, Seattle, Denver, Chicago and dozens of other places run their own programs. Each covers only its own jurisdiction. The register list shows which of these exist in each state we cover. ## 2. Check what the register publishes Registers differ most in contact detail. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, 98% of the 673 license records carry a phone and 98% an email. In Kissimmee, Florida, 76% of 2,788 records carry a phone and almost none an email. In Houston, Texas, none of the 2,034 records do, because the Texas tax roll publishes no contact details at all. CityRegisterRecordsWith a phoneWith an email Green Bay, WIWisconsin DATCP's tourist rooming house licenses67398%98% Kissimmee, FLFlorida's DBPR vacation-rental license file2,78876%0% Houston, TXthe Texas hotel-occupancy-tax permit roll2,0340%0% That one fact decides your channel. A phone-rich register supports calling; an address-level register supports mail and skip-tracing. Every city page on this site states which kind it is in the first paragraph. ## 3. Clean the city name Registers are typed by people, and the city field shows it. Kissimmee appears in the Florida file under 4 spellings, and St. Augustine under 4 ("ST. AUGUSTINE", "ST AUGUSTINE", "SAINT AUGUSTINE"). A filter on one spelling misses the others. Across our 127 city files, 36 needed spellings merged. The fix is a normalization pass before you count anything: uppercase, strip punctuation, expand "ST" and "FT", merge known typos, and check the result against the ZIP codes. ## 4. Drop the rows that are not in the city Some sources fill the city column with the owner's home town instead of the property's. We found a Texas file where more than a thousand rows were labelled with a city whose ZIP codes are in California, and a South Carolina dataset whose city column was the owner's mailing city in other states. The test is simple: if a row's ZIP code belongs to another state, it is not a property in your city. Across our city files that rule removed 82 rows. ## 5. Separate hotels and other businesses Tax rolls include hotels as well as rentals. Of the 2,034 Houston records, 815 are filed under NAICS 531110 (lessors of residential buildings) and 1,000 under 721110 (hotels and motels). If you sell to short-term rental owners, keep the first group and drop the second. The Texas guide lists every code. ## 6. Break the list down by ZIP A city list is rarely spread evenly. In Kissimmee, ZIP 34747 alone holds 1,739 of the 2,788 records. Working ZIP by ZIP lets a service business build routes and lets a manager start where the density is. Each city page has a ZIP table. ## 7. Group the owners Count how many different property addresses each owner name holds. In Kissimmee, 413 records sit under names with two or more Florida addresses, and 23 under names with ten or more. Those are management companies and investors; the rest are individual owners. Which group you want depends on what you sell. The multi-property guide covers the method in detail. ## 8. Contact them legally Public records are not consent. Phones in permit files are often personal mobiles, so calls and texts fall under the TCPA and the Do Not Call rules, and email falls under CAN-SPAM. Postal mail is the least restricted channel, which is one reason address-level lists still work. Read contacting STR owners legally before you start. ## The shortcut Every city on the city index has already been through steps 1 to 7: one register, merged spellings, out-of-state rows removed, ZIP counts, permit types and owner grouping, refreshed from the live database. The city is part of its state plan ($99 a month, exports filtered by city) or the one-time state file ($149). If your city is not on the index, it is still in the state file; it just has fewer than 100 records. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/find-multi-property-str-owners/ On this page The methodWhy counting addresses mattersWhere multi-property owners clusterFlorida in detailThe limitsWho uses the list, and how 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Data # How 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. Published 2026-10-04 · 4 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page The methodWhy counting addresses mattersWhere multi-property owners clusterFlorida in detailThe limitsWho uses the list, and how To find short-term rental owners with several properties, group permit records by the owner or licensee name and count how many different property addresses each name holds. In the PermitPulse city files outside Texas, Appleton, WI has the highest share of records under names with two or more properties (39%), and Florida's largest single licensee name appears on 86 addresses, as of 2026-10-08. Multi-property owners are a different customer from a homeowner with one rental. They are management companies, investors and families with a handful of homes. Property managers usually want to skip them, because they are already managed. Software companies, lenders and maintenance contractors usually want them first. Either way you need to know who they are. ## The method - Pick a register that publishes names. Florida's license file, Nashville's permit register, Wisconsin's license file and San Diego's STRO register name the holder on nearly every record. The Texas tax roll names the business on the permit. Some city registers publish no names at all, and the method does not work there. - Group within one state. Common names repeat across the country, so a name only counts as one owner inside a single state's file. - Count addresses, not records. Registers like Nashville's keep every renewal and every expired permit, so one property can appear many times under the same name. Counting distinct property addresses collapses those repeats. - Set thresholds. We report two: names on two or more addresses, and names on ten or more. Two or more catches small investors; ten or more is mostly management companies and larger investors. ## Why counting addresses matters Madison, Tennessee shows the trap. It sits inside Metro Nashville's register, which keeps old permits alongside current ones. Counting raw records, most names there repeat. Counting distinct addresses, only 31 of the 475 Madison records sit under a name with two or more properties. The difference is renewals of the same home, not extra homes. ## Where multi-property owners cluster City files with the highest share of records under names that hold two or more properties in their state: CityRecordsName on 2+ propertiesName on 10+ properties Appleton, WI14939%13 Wisconsin Dells, WI32836%57 Aspen, CO74725%0 Cable, WI11525%0 Key West, FL37524%22 Treasure Island, FL12420%12 Destin, FL90019%60 Miramar Beach, FL78119%45 Seminole, FL31719%24 Anna Maria, FL16519%12 Green Bay, WI67319%25 Hallandale Beach, FL14418%0 Aventura, FL15117%2 Davenport, FL2,39716%108 Miami, FL1,79216%36 Texas is left out of this table. Its hotel-tax roll includes hotels and motels, so the biggest names there are hotel groups as well as rental managers; the Texas guide shows how to split them by NAICS code first. ## Florida in detail Florida's license file names every licensee, which makes it the best state for this. Of the 52,029 Florida records, 5,747 (11%) sit under a name with two or more Florida addresses and 996 under names with ten or more. The towns with the most records under large names: TownLicensesUnder names with 10+Under names with 2+ Davenport2,397108383 Destin90060169 Santa Rosa Beach1,13249157 Miramar Beach78145146 Naples1,06742104 Miami1,79236284 Indian Rocks Beach68336102 Inlet Beach5212872 Seminole3172459 Kissimmee2,78823413 ## The limits - Spelling. Names are grouped as the register prints them. "Smith Rentals LLC" and "Smith Rentals, LLC" count as two names unless someone merges them, so the counts are a floor. - LLCs. One investor can hold properties through several companies, each with its own name. The register cannot connect them; a state business-entity search sometimes can. - Licensee is not always owner. In Florida, a management company can hold the license for a home it manages. A big name on many licenses may be a manager, not an owner. - Address formats. Two records for the same unit written differently ("Apt 4" and "#4") count as two addresses. That nudges counts up slightly. ## Who uses the list, and how - Property managers filter the big names out and pitch the single-property owners. - PMS and revenue-management vendors start with names on ten or more properties. - Lenders look for names on two to nine properties: investors still building portfolios. - Maintenance contractors pitch one service agreement for many addresses. Every city page on this site shows its own counts for names on two and on ten or more properties, next to the state figure. Exports carry the name on every record, so you can run the grouping yourself on the towns you cover. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/direct-mail-to-vacation-rental-owners/ On this page Where mail is the main channelThe address problemSegment before you printTimingWhat to sendThe rules that still applyGetting the addresses 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Playbook # Direct 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. Published 2026-10-04 · 4 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page Where mail is the main channelThe address problemSegment before you printTimingWhat to sendThe rules that still applyGetting the addresses Direct mail reaches short-term rental owners in the markets where registers publish no phone or email. Every permit record carries the property address, and most carry the name on the permit, so a mail campaign can start from the public record alone. In PermitPulse, 20 city files are address-level as of 2026-10-08, led by Houston, TX with 2,034 records, and whole state files such as Texas (47,323) and Tennessee (33,509) are almost entirely address-level. Mail is slower than a call and costs more per contact, but it has two things going for it with this audience: it is the one channel the registers fully support, and it sits outside the TCPA and CAN-SPAM, which cover calls, texts and email. This guide covers who to mail, where the letter should go, and how to time it. ## Where mail is the main channel These city files come from registers that publish no phone or email: CityRecordsTop ZIPDated last 12 months Houston, TX2,03477004217 San Antonio, TX1,77978212137 Corpus Christi, TX1,7757841859 Rockport, TX1,0467838249 Boulder, CO1,014n/a513 Dallas, TX9177520154 Aspen, CO74781611747 Breckenridge, CO73580424n/a New Braunfels, TX6917813045 Canyon Lake, TX5587813339 Chattanooga, TN55337408386 Silverthorne, CO55280498n/a Surfside Beach, TX5207754125 Boulder County Unincorporated, CO50180302143 Madison, TN4753711531 Frisco, CO42980443n/a Wimberley, TX3987867647 Crystal Beach, TX3757765040 Fort Worth, TX3647613732 Lubbock, TX3187940748 Big address-level markets with their own market pages include Nashville, Seattle, Austin and the Texas Gulf towns. ## The address problem A permit record gives you the property address. For a short-term rental, that is where the guests stay, not necessarily where the owner reads mail. Three cases: - Owner-occupied rentals. The owner lives at the property, so the property address works. Nashville's register marks these: in Madison, 329 of the 469 permits classed by occupancy are owner-occupied. - Absentee owners. Mail to the property may sit with the next guest or a cleaner. Look up the owner's mailing address first: county property records list the owner of each parcel and, in most counties, a mailing address, and a skip-trace service does the same in bulk from a name and an address. - Companies. Where the name on the permit is a business, the state's business-entity search usually gives a registered or principal address. The export gives you the two inputs every one of those lookups needs: the name on the permit and the property address with its ZIP code. ## Segment before you print - By property type. Owner-occupied and investor permits in Nashville, houses and condos in Florida, residential lessors and hotels in Texas. One letter rarely fits all of them. - By portfolio size. A name with ten properties should get one letter, not ten. Group by name first. - By age. Registers that date permits let you split new operators from established ones. A host in the first months has different problems from one renewing for the fifth time. - By ZIP. If you serve part of a city, the ZIP table on its page shows where the records are. ## Timing Where filing dates exist, mail close to the permit. Houston has 217 records dated in the last 12 months, and Texas as a whole has 3,524. A subscription refreshes monthly, so a standing campaign can mail each month's new permits. The pending vs. granted guide covers why the newest records tend to be the most useful. ## What to send Write to the owner about the property they registered, not about short-term rentals in general. Name the street, say what you do for owners in that town, and give one way to respond. Use a tracked phone number, a short URL or a code per batch, so you can see which segment answered. Expect to learn more from the second mailing than the first; nothing in the permit data predicts who will reply. ## The rules that still apply Postal mail is outside the TCPA and CAN-SPAM, but not outside the law. Fair-dealing and advertising rules apply to what the letter claims, some states and industries add their own solicitation rules (real estate, insurance and lending among them), and any call or text you place as a follow-up brings the phone rules back in. A letter is not consent to be called. ## Getting the addresses Every city above is part of its state plan: $99 a month with exports filtered by city, or $149 once for the state file. Each record carries the permit number, the name on the permit where published, the property address, city and ZIP, the permit type and status, and the filing date where the register gives one. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/public-short-term-rental-registers/ On this page Three kinds of registerThe registers, state by stateStates without a named register hereIdaho and IowaWhich registers publish contact detailsHow the registers changeUsing a register yourself 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Reference # Which 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. Published 2026-10-04 · 5 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page Three kinds of registerThe registers, state by stateStates without a named register hereIdaho and IowaWhich registers publish contact detailsHow the registers changeUsing a register yourself Short-term rental registers are public in more places than most people expect. PermitPulse draws on registers in 26 states, 39 of them named below, as of 2026-10-08. Two states license short-term rentals statewide (Florida and Wisconsin), Texas covers them through its statewide hotel occupancy tax roll, and everywhere else the register belongs to a city or county. This is the list of the registers behind the data, state by state, with the record count for each and whether it publishes contact details. It is a reference for anyone deciding where permit data can work for them, and a map of where it cannot. ## Three kinds of register - Statewide licenses. Florida's DBPR vacation-rental licenses and Wisconsin's DATCP tourist rooming house licenses cover every town in the state in one file, and both publish the licensee's phone on most records. - Statewide tax rolls. Texas has no statewide short-term-rental license, but its hotel occupancy tax applies to rented houses and condos as well as hotels, so the permit roll lists rentals across the state, alongside hotels. It publishes no phone or email. - City and county programs. Nashville, New Orleans, San Diego, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Scottsdale, Asheville and many more keep their own registers. What they publish varies from full contact details to an address and a permit number. ## The registers, state by state ### Florida · 52,029 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Florida DBPR vacation rental licenses (statewide)49,712yes, 77% County STR registration compliance layer (Collier County)1,820no Other published STR datasets497varies ### Texas · 47,323 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Texas hotel occupancy tax permits (statewide)43,015no City of Austin short-term rental locations3,624no Other published STR datasets677varies ### Louisiana · 33,991 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email New Orleans STR permit applications28,049yes, 90% New Orleans active STR licenses4,303yes, 60% New Orleans non-commercial STR licenses1,227yes, 100% East Baton Rouge STR permits204no Other published STR datasets204varies ### Tennessee · 33,509 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Metro Nashville residential STR permits31,694no Chattanooga active short-term vacation rentals553no Other published STR datasets1,262varies ### Washington · 29,596 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Seattle short-term rental licenses9,743no San Juan County vacation rental permits755yes, 100% Other published STR datasets19,096varies ### California · 21,147 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email San Diego STRO licenses8,818yes, 100% San Bernardino County STR permits5,210yes, 100% Sonoma County vacation rental permits2,410yes, 94% El Dorado County vacation home rental permits1,978yes, 77% Other published STR datasets2,731varies ### Wisconsin · 12,919 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Wisconsin DATCP tourist rooming house licenses (statewide)12,919yes, 98% ### Colorado · 9,781 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Denver STR licenses2,541no Summit County STR licenses2,301no City of Aspen STR permits747no Boulder County short-term and vacation rental licenses504no Other published STR datasets3,681varies ### Oregon · 6,907 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Portland accessory short-term rental permits4,433no Bend short-term rental permits1,242no Other published STR datasets1,232varies ### Arizona · 4,661 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Scottsdale licensed short-term rentals3,069yes, 100% Tempe short-term rentals713no Other published STR datasets879varies ### Illinois · 4,176 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Chicago shared housing registrations4,176no ### Kentucky · 3,977 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Louisville Metro STR registrations1,522yes, 99% Lexington-Fayette STR public view1,459no Other published STR datasets996varies ### Georgia · 2,125 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Savannah short-term vacation rentals1,493yes, 100% Other published STR datasets628varies ### Ohio · 1,923 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Columbus STR licenses1,923yes, 98% ### North Carolina · 1,731 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Asheville homestay permits1,709no ### Minnesota · 1,578 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Minneapolis STR licenses and registrations925yes, 96% Other published STR datasets653varies ### Michigan · 1,479 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Traverse City vacation home rentals1,479yes, 78% ### Hawaii · 1,473 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Honolulu STR registrations1,473no ### Pennsylvania · 1,320 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Philadelphia limited lodging operator licenses1,320no ### New Mexico · 905 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Santa Fe city STR licenses905no ### Nevada · 765 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email City of Las Vegas STR licenses (CLV_STR)278yes, 100% Clark County approved STR licenses244no Other published STR datasets243varies ### Massachusetts · 499 records RegisterRecordsWith phone or email Cambridge short-term rentals499no ## States without a named register here South Carolina (1,716 records) draws on published short-term-rental datasets rather than one named register. States with fewer records than a full page are listed on the coverage hub. ## Idaho and Iowa There is nothing to list for Idaho or Iowa. Both states preempted local short-term-rental permitting, so the city registers other states publish do not exist there. The Idaho and Iowa guide explains the laws. ## Which registers publish contact details Phone and email coverage depends entirely on the register. Statewide, the files with the most contact detail are: StateRecordsWith phone or email Florida52,02938,719 (74%) Louisiana33,99129,289 (86%) California21,14717,906 (85%) Wisconsin12,91912,611 (98%) Arizona4,6613,948 (85%) Kentucky3,9772,487 (63%) Ohio1,9231,881 (98%) Georgia2,1251,493 (70%) Michigan1,4791,147 (78%) Minnesota1,578934 (59%) Where the register publishes no contact detail, every record still has the property address, and most have the name on the permit. That is enough for direct mail or a skip-trace. ## How the registers change Registers are living files. Cities add programs, change what they publish and drop old fields. PermitPulse re-reads the registers continuously, which is why counts on this site refresh with every build. Some registers are young: Chicago's, Louisville's and Columbus's records are mostly dated within the last two years. ## Using a register yourself Many of these registers are published on city, county or state open-data portals. Doing it yourself means handling each format, merging city spellings, separating rentals from hotels where a tax roll mixes them, and refreshing the pull as the register changes. PermitPulse does that for every register above and sells the result by state: $99 a month for one state or $299 for all of them, or a one-time file from $149. Each register PermitPulse reads has its own live page, with record counts, the fields it publishes, status and permit-type mixes and new records by month: see all public short-term rental registers. The combined counts are in the permit statistics study. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Texas ### Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits 4 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## Texas Short-Term Rental Data From Hotel Occupancy Tax Permits | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/texas-hotel-occupancy-tax-permit-data/ On this page What the roll isWhat is in each recordRentals versus hotels: the NAICS codesHow fresh it isWhere the records areWorking an address-level listGetting the Texas file 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Texas # Texas 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. Published 2026-10-04 · 4 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page What the roll isWhat is in each recordRentals versus hotels: the NAICS codesHow fresh it isWhere the records areWorking an address-level listGetting the Texas file Texas has no statewide short-term rental license, but short-term rentals still show up in a statewide public file: the hotel occupancy tax permit roll kept by the Texas Comptroller, which lists lodging businesses that collect the tax, short-term rentals among them. PermitPulse holds 43,015 records from that roll as of 2026-10-08. 28,457 are filed under NAICS 531110 (lessors of residential buildings) and 11,006 under 721110 (hotels and motels), and none carry a phone or email. That makes Texas the biggest address-level state file we carry, and one of the freshest. This guide explains what the roll contains, how to separate rentals from hotels, and where the records are. ## What the roll is The Texas Comptroller's hotel occupancy tax page says the tax applies not only to hotels and motels but also to bed and breakfasts, condominiums, apartments and houses, and that people leasing their houses must collect it from guests the same way a hotel does. The permit roll lists the businesses registered for the tax: the business name on the permit, the location address and ZIP, an industry code, and a date on each permit. Owners and managers who register a rental show up next to the hotels. Because it is a tax roll, it reaches every town, including the Gulf beach towns, the Hill Country and the big metros. The cities in it do not need their own STR program for their rentals to appear. ## What is in each record - Business name on the permit. For an individual owner this is often the owner's name; for a managed property it can be the management company. 11,208 Texas records sit under a name that appears on two or more property addresses. - Location address and ZIP. The rental itself. - NAICS code. The industry the permit was filed under, which is how you separate rentals from hotels. - Date. A date on every permit, which makes Texas one of the few states where you can sort the whole file by age. - No phone or email. The roll does not publish them. ## Rentals versus hotels: the NAICS codes The most common codes on Texas permits in PermitPulse: CodeMeaningRecords 531110lessors of residential buildings28,457 721110hotels and motels11,006 531311residential property managers1,229 721000accommodation, no six-digit code1,059 721199other traveler accommodation312 721191bed-and-breakfast inns215 453998miscellaneous retailers175 For short-term rental leads, keep 531110 (residential lessors) and consider 531311 (residential property managers, who often run rentals for owners). Drop 721110 (hotels and motels) and look at 721191 (bed-and-breakfast inns) and 721199 (other traveler accommodation) case by case. Subscribers can filter the export by permit type using the code. ## How fresh it is Records by year on the permit, for the last ten years: YearRecords 20262,954 20253,357 20243,736 20234,521 20225,567 20213,862 20202,482 20194,052 20181,926 20172,460 3,524 Texas records are dated in the last 12 months. The current year is partial. ## Where the records are Texas towns with their own city page: CityRecordsResidential (531110)Hotels (721110)Dated last 12 months Houston2,0348151,000217 San Antonio1,7791,052589137 Corpus Christi1,7751,25846159 Rockport1,04678120849 Dallas91749834654 New Braunfels69149312845 Canyon Lake5584163439 Surfside Beach5204373025 Wimberley3981673047 Crystal Beach3753571340 Fort Worth3648823132 Lubbock31811917348 The biggest vacation towns have market pages instead: Austin (7,553), Port Aransas (3,076), Galveston (2,703), South Padre Island (2,280), Fredericksburg (1,730). Austin's page also draws on the City of Austin's own short-term rental register. The split between rentals and hotels changes a lot by town. Big metros carry many hotels; beach and lake towns are mostly residential lessors. Check the city page before you buy a town's list, because the headline count can be half hotels. ## Working an address-level list - Filter to residential codes and the towns you serve. - Group by name. A name on many permits is a manager or an investor; one letter or one call covers all of them. - Find a mailing address or phone. The location address is the rental. County appraisal district records list the owner of each property, and a skip-trace service can return a phone from a name and an address. - Mail or call within the rules. Mail is outside the TCPA; a phone number found by skip-trace is still covered by it. See direct mail to vacation rental owners and the compliance guide. ## Getting the Texas file The Texas plan is $99 a month with exports filtered by city, permit type and date, or $149 once for all 47,323 Texas records. The Comptroller's page was checked on 2026-10-04. This guide describes the data as PermitPulse holds it. It is not tax advice: whether a particular rental owes state or local hotel occupancy tax is a question for the Comptroller or a tax adviser. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. See PermitPulse → Browse coverage by state PermitPulse ### 275,665 STR permit records - 26 states, from government registers - 111,698 with a phone or email - One state $99/mo or $149 once See real records → Related guides - How to Find Airbnb Owners - STR Permit Records, Explained - How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data - Short-Term-Rental Permits by State - Contacting STR Owners Legally ## More guides Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners: 7 Ways That Actually Work in 2026 8 min read Data ### STR Permit Records, Explained: What They Are and What's Inside 7 min read Playbook ### How Vacation-Rental Managers Win Owner Contracts With Permit Data 6 min read Reference ### Short-Term-Rental Permits by State: Who Requires What in 2026 6 min read Compliance ### Contacting STR Owners Legally: TCPA, DNC and CAN-SPAM Basics 6 min read Strategy ### Pending vs. Granted: Why New Permit Applications Are the Best Leads 5 min read Comparison ### Airbnb Lead Sources Compared: Scraped Listings, Data Brokers and Permit Records 5 min read Reference ### Why You Can't Buy Idaho or Iowa STR Permit Data 5 min read Florida ### How Florida Licenses Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Florida Cities With the Most Licensed Vacation Rentals 5 min read Florida ### Vacation Rental Condos vs. Houses in Florida, by City 5 min read Playbook ### How to Find Airbnb Owners in a Specific City 4 min read Data ### How to Find Short-Term Rental Owners With Multiple Properties 4 min read Playbook ### Direct Mail to Vacation Rental Owners 4 min read Reference ### Which U.S. Cities and States Publish Short-Term Rental Registers 5 min read Wisconsin ### Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data 3 min read Pricing ### How Much Does Custom Lead Generation Software Cost? 10 min read Decision ### Build or Buy: When Custom Lead Software Beats a Data Subscription 9 min read Compliance ### Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical Guide for Lead Generation 9 min read Reference ### 12 Public Record Sources That Produce Real B2B Leads 14 min read Playbook ### How to Hire Someone to Build Your Lead Generation Software 9 min read --- ## Wisconsin Tourist Rooming House License Data | Lead Mining Company URL: https://leadminingcompany.com/guides/wisconsin-tourist-rooming-house-licenses/ On this page What a tourist rooming house isWhat the license file containsLicenses by number of unitsWhere the licenses areWhat the file leaves outWho uses the Wisconsin fileGetting the Wisconsin file 275,665 STR permit records across 26 states, 111,698 with a phone or email. Browse by state → - Guides - Wisconsin # Wisconsin 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. Published 2026-10-04 · 3 min read · by Lead Mining Company On this page What a tourist rooming house isWhat the license file containsLicenses by number of unitsWhere the licenses areWhat the file leaves outWho uses the Wisconsin fileGetting the Wisconsin file Wisconsin licenses short-term rentals statewide as tourist rooming houses, through the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP). The public license file is one of the most contact-rich in the country: of the 12,919 Wisconsin records in PermitPulse as of 2026-10-08, 11,271 carry a phone and 12,453 an email. For anyone selling to cabin, cottage and lake-house owners in the Northwoods, Door County or the Dells, that file is the starting point. This guide covers what a tourist rooming house is, what the license file contains, and where the licenses are. ## What a tourist rooming house is DATCP's tourist rooming house page defines one as any lodging place where sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to tourists or transients, including a lodging place with four or fewer individually keyed units, a one- or two-family dwelling or condominium unit, a tourist cabin or cottage, or a specialty lodging facility. In practice, the page says, they are vacation homes, cabins and cottages rented to tourists for short periods. The licensing rules sit in chapter ATCP 72 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code. ## What the license file contains FieldWisconsin records with it License number and licensee nameNearly every record Property address and ZIPNearly every record Phone11,271 (87%) Email12,453 (96%) Number of units on the licenseEvery licensed record, in bands Filing dateNot published The combination of phone and email on most records is rare. In most states you get one or the other, or neither. ## Licenses by number of units Each license is issued for a band of units, which tells you whether the licensee runs one cabin or a cluster of them: License bandLicensesWith a phone Tourist rooming house license, 1 unit11,90910,419 Tourist rooming house license, 2 to 4 units696582 Tourist rooming house license, 5 to 9 units189166 Tourist rooming house license, 10 to 19 units7459 Tourist rooming house license, 20 to 39 units2723 92% of licenses cover a single unit, so most of the file is individual owners. A multi-unit license means one licensee with several units, whether a cottage group, a small resort or an owner with a few cabins: one contact, several properties. ## Where the licenses are Wisconsin towns with their own city page: TownLicensesWith a phoneWith an emailMulti-unit licenses Green Bay67398%98%43 Hayward46198%98%79 Sturgeon Bay42696%99%2 Eagle River36986%100%43 Lake Geneva35798%99%1 St. Germain33181%99%39 Wisconsin Dells32887%95%67 Sister Bay22497%99%2 Egg Harbor19598%97%5 Fish Creek17594%98%1 Minocqua16855%94%24 Nekoosa155100%100%5 Appleton14995%97%12 Tomahawk13880%97%20 Bayfield13175%81%26 Ellison Bay12398%98%1 La Pointe11883%97%7 Cable11576%94%15 Rhinelander11381%94%19 Three Lakes10789%98%11 Fontana10599%100%1 Chetek10494%98%29 The town on each license is the town of the property. Door County shows up as several small towns (Sturgeon Bay, Sister Bay, Egg Harbor, Fish Creek) rather than one entry, and the Northwoods lake country spreads across Hayward, Eagle River, St. Germain and Minocqua. Green Bay has the most licenses of any Wisconsin town. ## What the file leaves out - Dates. The file carries no filing or issue date, so new licenses show up in our export through the first-seen date: when the license first appeared in our database. - Bookings and amenities. Nothing about occupancy, bedrooms, docks or hot tubs. - Who manages it. The licensee may be the owner or a rental company. ## Who uses the Wisconsin file - Cleaning and turnover crews, because phones are on almost every record. - Maintenance contractors, who start with the multi-unit licenses. - Property managers covering lake towns where owners live hours away. - Photographers and furnishing companies watching for new licenses month to month. ## Getting the Wisconsin file The Wisconsin plan is $99 a month with exports filtered by city and contact data, or $149 once for all 12,919 Wisconsin records. Most licenses cover a single unit, so many licensees are individual owners and a listed phone may be a personal mobile. Calls and texts fall under the TCPA and Do Not Call rules and email under CAN-SPAM; read the compliance guide first. DATCP's tourist rooming house page was checked on 2026-10-04. Counts come from the live PermitPulse database and refresh with every build. ## The database behind this guide PermitPulse holds 275,665 short-term-rental permit records across 26 states — 111,698 with a phone or email, refreshed continuously from the government registers themselves. From $99/month, or a one-time state download for $149. 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