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Short-term rental rules in Freeport, ME
How Freeport regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Rules here limit which homes may operate as short-term rentals, how many, where, or for how many nights a year.
- hard citywide cap of 300 STR registrations per annual cycle
- excess demand allocated by lottery (first-time applicants second priority behind renewals)
- annual registration + renewal process, $100/yr
Based on: Town of Freeport Ordinance Chapter 61, Short-Term Residential Rental Registration Ordinance, Art. VI (Limits on Annual
Summary of the rule
The total number of annual registrations issued by the Town Clerk shall be limited to three hundred (300) per registration cycle.
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