As a community impacted heavily by tourism, the issue of Short-Term Rentals (aka Vacation Rentals) has become huge here on Pensacola Beach, especially with the explosive growth of online marketplaces in recent years.  This explosive growth in unregulated Vacation Rentals and online platforms has completely changed the dynamics of residential life on Pensacola Beach, encouraging many residential property owners to turn their homes into public lodging during the "season," or transform it completely into an investment property.  Some new homes are even designed and built specifically as Vacation Rentals.

While these Short-Term, Vacation Rentals are required to obtain a license from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), an very high number of them are not licensed...  For more information on this hot topic, check out the links below.