Calgary Rental AirBnB Rules

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Calgary has a robust rental market, and the niche of AirBnB rentals within it, is even more lucrative and robust. But with great rental returns, comes a spectrum of hard work, headaches, and liabilities. Our Calgary Airbnb Management company can help you navigate this area with ease, doing all the work for you, at minikin commission

Since February 2020 Calgary has set out, and enforces AirBnB rules within its parameters. This made AirBnB property management more difficult in Calgary. These rules, and Calgary AirBnB licensing requirement are only within city limits, and areas like Okotoks, Airdrie, Chestemere, and Cochrane, do not have, or follow, these rules at all.

The city of Calgary now requires a Short Term Business License to be issues for each unit that is rented on AirBnB. Yes, that means if you have a legal basement suite, and are renting both the upper floor, and the legal basement suite on AirBnB, you will need 2 City of Calgary Short Term Business Licenses. These Licenses are as such:

Tier 1: 1 to 4 rooms offered for rent ( bedrooms)

Tier 2: 5 or more rooms offered for rent (bedrooms)

The Airbnb rules that apply to short-term rentals in the city of Calgary: With our AirBnB property management services, we ensure the following for you

  1. Hosts are not able to rent out rooms that do not have a proper egress window in it. That means no using dens, or offices, as an AirBnB rental room within your home, unless it has a proper egress window

  2. Only 2 adults are allowed per room. this will not include infants. This Means no stacking 4 bunk beds in a bedroom. This will be a violation, and a safety hazard

  3. Hosts are not allowed rent out rooms to separate people, unless the reservation falls under one owner. This means you cannot use your rental as a boarding house

  4. In your AirBnB listing, you must include your business license number. This is a good thing to do to keep bylaw away

  5. In an easy to find area, you as the host, must post your licence, name, email, and phone number, for guests. This must be easily seen

  6. You must keep a record of all guests that have stayed. It must be in English, and easy to read, At any time, the city may request this information. The record must include the following

    • Full name and email address of a paid guest

    • Duration of their stay at your Calgary AirBnB

Tier one licenses are easier to obtain than their Their 2 counterparts. This is because for tier 2, as you have increased occupancy, you must have more safety code upgrades, and go through more inspections. For example, the City of Calgary fire department must inspect your home, prior to receiving a Teir 2 license. They will be looking at all sorts of safety violation, inducing, but not limited to, if you have enough smoke detectors, and if they re all wire together, so they can communicate to each other. This can be a costly upgrade in older homes in Calgary. They Will follow the  Alberta Safety Codes Act Fire Code Regulation.

Consult with a reputable AirBnB property management company in Calgary, to check with any legal and city hurdles you may face. We will consult at no cost, because we take AirBnB property management seriously.