If you run code enforcement in a town of five or twenty-five thousand people, you already know the problem. Your ordinance requires short-term rental licenses. Your residents complain about party houses. And somewhere on Airbnb, VRBO and Booking.com there are dozens — maybe hundreds — of listings inside your jurisdiction that nobody in your office has ever seen.
The tools to find them exist. They have existed for years. But they were built for Denver and Austin, sold on enterprise contracts, and priced so far beyond a small-town budget that most municipalities never even asked for a quote. So the work fell to a code officer with a spare hour and a search bar — against platforms that deliberately hide addresses and blur map pins.
That is the gap City Monitor was built to close.
What we found in one small mountain town
Before launch, we pointed City Monitor at a single small community in Arizona — a village of a few thousand residents with an STR licensing requirement on the books. Here is what one scan surfaced:
Six hundred and eighty listings. A compliance rate of one percent. Not because the town didn't care — but because no human being can police three global platforms by hand. The town knew it had a problem. It had no way to see the size of it. Now it does, on one map.
What City Monitor does
- Full-city scanning. Every listing on Airbnb, VRBO and Booking.com inside your jurisdiction — condos, single-family homes, everything. Rescanned continuously.
- A live compliance map. Every listing plotted on a map of your town. Licensed listings in green, unlicensed in red. Your whole enforcement picture at a glance.
- License checking. We check each listing for a displayed STR license number and flag the ones without.
- Online registration. Hosts register and receive their permit through your own branded portal — no paperwork on your desk.
- Resident complaints. A simple form where residents report problem properties, photos included, tracked case by case to resolution.
- Building-level reports. "This condo has 14 listings — 10 licensed, 4 not." Actionable, enforcement-ready, court-ready.
In short: detection, registration and enforcement in one system — the full lifecycle of an STR program, sized for a small team. Or a team of one.
Priced for the budgets everyone else ignored
We have monitored short-term rentals for condo associations and HOAs since 2015 — over sixty communities across Florida, Hawaii, New York, Oregon and Canada — and we have never raised our prices. City Monitor carries that same philosophy to city hall: every jurisdiction is different, so we tailor the monitoring to your ordinance and your budget. No enterprise contract. No setup fee. No sales funnel with four discovery calls.
If your town has an STR ordinance and no way to enforce it, the math is simple: one scan will almost certainly find more unlicensed rentals than the service costs to run for a year.
See your town on the map
Ask us for a demo and we'll show you exactly what City Monitor sees — live, on a real city.
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