Northeast Florida property management — Airbnb, short-term & long-term rentals

St. Augustine registers every vacation rental each year, inspects it for fire safety, caps occupancy at 12 and sets the shortest stay by zoning: a week in RS-1 and RS-2, a month in HP-1, nightly elsewhere. St. Augustine Beach allows rentals of 30 days or less only in medium-density districts and prohibits them in low-density residential areas.

Jacksonville Beach permits short-term vacation rentals wherever residential use is allowed, once the owner holds a city registration certificate and passes a fire inspection. Fernandina Beach requires a resort rental dwelling permit, available in R-3 and in R-1 or R-2 only for homes already in that use in October 2000. Unincorporated St. Johns County, including Ponte Vedra Beach, requires yearly registration east of the Intracoastal Waterway, and the Ponte Vedra Zoning District bans renting single rooms within a house.

Mayo Clinic's Florida campus, on the east side of Jacksonville near the Intracoastal Waterway, points patients who need an extended stay to Vrbo, Airbnb and local rental agencies. Naval Air Station Jacksonville and the downtown campus of Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville and Wolfson Children's Hospital add families who need furnished homes for weeks or months.

Events add peaks. THE PLAYERS Championship returns to TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach March 9–14, 2027, and Fort Clinch State Park in Fernandina Beach holds a soldier garrison with cannon firing on the first weekend of each month.

Every stay of six months or less carries Florida's 6% sales tax plus the county's discretionary surtax for 2026: 1.5% in Duval, 0.5% in St. Johns and 1% in Nassau. On top of that, the county tourist tax is 6% in Duval, 5% in St. Johns and 5% in Nassau, where it applies only in ZIP code 32034 for Amelia Island. All three counties collect the tourist tax themselves rather than through the state.