City Watch: Miami Beach
Miami Beach bans rentals under six months plus one day in most residential zones. Only a handful of resort districts allow short stays, and fines start at $1,000 and climb to $20,000 per violation.
- Business Tax Receipt + Resort Tax Certificate + condo sign-off required.
- Noise-monitoring plans, 24/7 contacts, and guest lists must be on file.
- Code officers run weekly OTA sweeps and seize payouts via court orders.
ASTRO’s South Florida desk tracks every Land Use Board vote, emergency curfew, and circuit court case. We coordinate with hospitality attorneys so members know when the city is bluffing versus when a shutdown notice is imminent.
Current Miami Beach pressure points
- Geography: Only RM-1/RM-2 resort corridors permit short stays. Everywhere else is 6+ months.
- Fines: $1,000 for the first offense, $5,000 for the second, $20,000 for the third—plus lien threats.
- Owner on-call: 24/7 response within one hour and log submission after every complaint.
- Platform liability: Airbnb and Booking must block payouts on flagged addresses.
ASTRO keeps you compliant where rentals remain legal: we publish zoning heat maps, condo board memo templates, and turn noise monitoring plus guest ID capture into a polished workflow.
For members operating in restricted zones, we pivot inventory into 30+ day luxury stays, member swaps, or Travelcoin residencies so staff stay paid while we lobby for a vetted-operator carve-out.
- What do members get? Toolkits, governance tracking, and a trusted exchange.
- How fast can we launch? Paste Markdown, run the pave script, verify.