# Transient occupancy

A term used when buying hotel.

The tax status that keeps a guest a guest, and the day count that ends it.

California hangs most of the distinction on the lodging tax: the landlord-tenant chapter applies to everyone who hires a dwelling unit except transient occupancy taxable as lodging, and that tax reaches an occupancy of thirty days or less. Past that the guest is a tenant and leaving becomes an eviction, unless the stay falls in a second exclusion for a hotel that keeps control of the room and offers a listed set of services. The statute also closes the obvious workaround, barring an operator from making a residential-hotel occupant check out and re-register before thirty days to keep them transient, with a rebuttable presumption of that purpose and a civil penalty. Florida now writes the test into the paperwork: a stay at a hotel, motel or bed and breakfast inn is transient unless a written rental or lease agreement expressly states that the unit is the guest's sole residence. A long-stay policy that travels between states does not.

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