Running vacation home rentals in South Lake Tahoe, where the residential ban ended and a permit cap replaced it

The city's page did not give the vacation home rental permit fee or the occupancy tax rate when we read it, so neither is here. This is not legal or tax advice, and Upbridge does not file anything for you: no registrations and no tax returns.

Bears are the city's own example of why the trash rules exist: its page warns guests that bears tear open bags and go through car windows for food. Every checkout ends with the trash stored tightly, nothing left outside and nothing edible in the cars, and the exterior camera on the trash area now records whether that happened.

The age floor of 25 and the 10 p.m. hot tub curfew are things a guest learns from the listing and the house manual, before arrival. A group of twenty-three year olds who booked anyway is a problem the manager owns, so the booking flow has to ask.

Under the 2025 rules the city expected the 150-foot buffer to hold approvals to about 325 permits, The Sacramento Bee reported, and the 2026 amendment removed it. With the buffer gone and a cap of 900, more houses on the same street can now hold permits than the buffer allowed.

Upbridge turns each checkout from Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify, Uplisting or an iCal link into a cleaning task with a room-by-room photo checklist. For a Tahoe house, the list can end outside: a photo of the trash enclosure closed, the hot tub covered and the posted sign in place.

Inventory per property keeps count of firewood, coffee and trash bags, and deducts what each stay used, so the restock happens before the next group. The guest gets the guest guide on their phone with the quiet hours, the parking spaces and what to do with trash.

When snow closes the roads, Sunday checkouts can slip to Monday. The cleaning company account shows each manager's turnovers together, dated, so when the roads close you can see at once which houses move and which crews to shift, and every client remains yours.