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BC Short-Term Rental Owner Checklist
A checklist for BC owners weighing short-term rentals: the principal residence rule, the community list, registration fees and penalties, local and strata rules, and moving units to long-term.
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- Is the stay under 90 consecutive days?If not, it is not a short-term rental under the Act.
- Check the Province's community list and map.The requirement applies in municipalities of 10,000 and over, smaller communities very close to them, and opt-in communities. The regulation governs, not the map.
- Check for an exemption: a small municipality not within 15 km of a larger one, listed resort areas, most electoral and Islands Trust areas, or Class 9 farm land.
- Recheck each spring.Opt-out and opt-in requests are due February 28; changes take effect June 1 or November 1.
- Host only in your principal residence, the usual place where you make your home. You have one at a time.
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