How do Jersey City’s regulations compare with other cities’?

Jersey City’s regulations allows homeowners who live on-site to share their home 365 days a year, and have an annual 60-day cap for short-term rentals in buildings with four or fewer units, if the property owner is not on-site. In addition to renting their own home or rooms within their home, homeowners are also allowed to rent out up to two whole apartments within their primary residence under the regulations.

In buildings with more than four units, home owners are allowed to rent out their home for unlimited amounts of time when they are present/live in the home, but not when they do not live in the home.

Under the proposed regulations, renters are not eligible to sublet the apartments they are renting on a short-term basis.

The Regulations phases out existing short-term rental contracts by Jan. 1, 2021.

The regulations define short term as a period of 28 days or less, and the regulations do not apply when renting out for longer periods than 28 days. This means that renters and owners in buildings with more than four units can continue to rent out and share apartments as long as the rental period exceeds 28 days.

Read more here about the regulations in Hoboken, North Bergen, Union City, Weehawken and West New York, and other US Cities.