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Under 28 nights
Short-term, run the way the city actually allows.
Nightly and weekly stays, managed end to end, on units that are permitted to run them. The first thing we establish is whether yours is one of them.
Read this first
Most Toronto investment condos do not qualify.
We would rather tell you that on a web page than three weeks into an onboarding.
The short version. A City of Toronto short-term rental registration is tied to your principal residence, and entire-unit short-term letting is capped at 180 nights a year. A condominium you own and do not live in generally cannot run nightly, whatever a management company tells you about it.
If you live there
Short-term is usually open to you, subject to your building. This is the case the city’s rules were written for, and it is the one we can move on quickly.
If you do not
Nightly letting is generally not available, and mid-term is the compliant path. It is a smaller headline number and a considerably better year. Mid-term management.
If you are not sure
That is the common answer and it is what the review is for. We read the declaration, the building’s rules and the city’s position, then tell you which of the two you are looking at.
The scope
Six jobs, and we do all six.
Short-term is the most operationally demanding model we run. It is also the one where the gap between a managed unit and a self-managed one is widest.
Photography and the listing
A professional shoot before the unit goes live anywhere, then one listing written once and tuned per platform. Photographs move a nightly listing further than any other single thing on it.
Four channels, one calendar
Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and Vrbo, synced so a booking on one closes the dates on the other three. Double bookings on a nightly calendar are expensive and entirely avoidable.
Rates, reviewed daily
Against live demand, the city’s event calendar, and what comparable units in your own building are asking that week. Minimum stays and seasonal floors move with them.
Guests, around the clock
Screened before a booking is accepted, then handled from arrival to checkout. You are not in the thread and you are not the escalation point at two in the morning.
Turnover between every stay
Hotel-standard linen, restocked consumables and a photographed condition check filed each time. On a nightly calendar that can be twelve times a month.
Registration and reporting
The city registration prepared and kept current, in your name. One written statement a month, and a portal login on the commission model.
How the year works
Nightly through the summer, then one long guest.
Almost nobody runs a Toronto unit nightly for twelve months, and the ones who try lose the winter.
The nightly season
Demand and rates are at their highest, and the calendar turns over quickly. This is where the annual return on a short-term unit is actually made.
The switch
The city’s annual cap on entire-unit nights is usually spent by the time nightly demand drops off anyway, so the two constraints land at roughly the same moment.
The mid-term winter
One guest takes three to six months on a single booking. Fewer turnovers, no empty January, and the unit is occupied when it would otherwise be costing you money.
This is the pattern most of our units run, and it is why the register on the homepage says most owners qualify for two models rather than one.
Questions
What owners ask about short-term.
Can I run short-term if I do not live in the unit?
Generally not. A City of Toronto short-term rental registration is tied to your principal residence. If the unit is an investment property, mid-term is the model to look at, and it is genuinely a good outcome rather than a consolation prize. We will tell you which applies to your specific unit at the review.
Who holds the registration?
You do, in your name, and it stays with the property. On commission management we prepare it and keep it current. On the Fixed Income Model the unit runs on the licence you already hold and we cover the renewals.
My building says no short-term rentals. Is that final?
For short-term, usually yes. A condominium declaration can restrict letting further than the city does, and we will not run a unit against its own building’s rules. It is not worth the relationship with the board or the risk to you. Mid-term is often still open in the same building, because many declarations draw the line at a minimum stay length rather than at letting itself.
What happens to my furniture and the wear on the unit?
How many channels will my unit be on?
Four: Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and Vrbo, all running off one calendar. Nightly letting rewards distribution more than any other model, because a unit that is only on one platform is only visible to one platform’s demand.
Can you take over a listing I already run?
Usually yes, and usually we should. An established listing carries its review history, which is worth considerably more than a clean start. We audit it, rewrite the copy, normally re-shoot it, and take over the calendar and the messaging without dropping the ranking you have already built.
The one next step
Find out what your unit is allowed to run.
Free eligibility review
About a minute to complete.
Goes to info@guestpoint.ca and nowhere else.