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The Truvi STR Risk & Resilience Report 2026

Your definitive guide to short-term rental risk, from permits and platforms to guests and neighbors

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45 pages of actionable advice to manage risk in your property management business, from 15 top operators and industry professionals.

What’s putting your rental business at risk?

  • Are you sure you’re following the rules where you operate?
  • How exposed is your business if a booking platform changes its rules?
  • Which kinds of guests and bookings tend to carry more risk?
  • Which kinds of properties and features tend to carry more risk?
  • What could go wrong at your property that you haven’t thought of?
  • How do you keep your neighbors on your side?

Inside the report:

  • Actionable advice from 15 industry pros in regulation, safety, operations, and more
  • Five chapters, covering risk from every angle: local rules and permits, booking platform dependence, guest damage and fraud, health and safety, and community, operations, and reputation
  • Data from 95,000+ real bookings showing which guests, bookings, and properties tend to carry more risk
  • A Risk Action Checklist you can work through for each of your properties
  • Predictions on where risk is heading from our Founder and CEO

Our expert contributors

The 2026 risk landscape according to the operators and industry insiders who know

Jenn Barbee

Co-Founder, Destination Innovate

“The smaller the host the bigger the risk.”

Gil Chan

CEO & Founder, CraftedStays

“With AI, if you never get surfaced, you’re invisible. Unlike Google, there’s no page two.”

Stephanie Flint

Director, Rural Cleans

“The moment a clean is missed, they start looking for absolutely everything else.”

Justin Ford

Director of Short-Term Rental Safety & Certification Programs, Breezeway

“It’s all about maintenance. If you’re going to offer a bike, you’ve got to inspect it at every single turnover.”

Tyann Marcink Hammond

Independent Operator & Queen of Guest Experience

“A change in regulations can be spurred by a single neighbor complaining to city council…”

Denis Hanks

Executive Director, FAVR

“We’ve seen people get caught owing $100,000 or more in back taxes when they get audited.”

Rebekah Lisgarten

CEO, STOP THE TRAFFIK

“Traffickers show no discrimination in who they target.”

Chloe Lorusso

Managing Director, Yellow Bolts

“A lot of people don’t know what the rebuild of their property actually is, so they guess.”

Dana Lubner

Director of Community Development, Rent Responsibly

“Regulatory risk can cost you your entire operation.”

Nils Erik Mattisson

CEO & Co-Founder, Minut

“It’s not about bad people being bad, it’s about good people sometimes not understanding the context they’re in.”

Alexander Shapiro

CEO & Co-Founder, CanMonkey

“Trash gets overlooked, but it’s one of the easiest ways for a city to penalize short-term rental hosts.”

Mark Simpson

Founder, Boostly

“Commission’s the risk everyone talks about. It’s not the one that actually gets you.”