Digital subscriptions provided by the City of Gulfport THE GABBER.COM No. 2821
July 13, 2023- July 19, 2023
Short-Term Strategies By Monroe Roark
MONROE ROARK
The green house on Beach Boulevard operates as a legal Gulfport short-term rental property. Not all short-term rentals in Gulfport are legal, however.
Gulfport’s new computerized code enforcement system for identifying short-term rentals is up and running. City staff gave an overview of recent developments at the City Council’s June 20 regular meeting.
So far, the system has been instrumental in bringing violators into compliance, they said. “A facility containing one or more temporary lodging units, the occupancy of which occurs, or is offered or advertised as being available, for
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a term of less than one month, more than three times in any consecutive 12-month period,” is how Gulfport’s code of ordinances 22-2.02, defines temporary lodging. Some residents have complained
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