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City housing staff says Rentalscape software helped find unregistered transient rentals and recoup fees

2112654 · January 14, 2025
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The city’s housing manager demonstrated Rentalscape software used to locate and audit transient-rental listings; the tool cost $6,825 annually and identified unregistered properties that generated additional fees last year.

Housing manager Steven Rucker demonstrated a software platform called Rentalscape from Decker Technologies that the city contracted to monitor advertised transient rentals.

Rucker said the software costs $6,825 annually. He described how the platform matches online listings to city permits and shows advertised daily rates and listing pages. He said the city found 19 properties last year that were not registered and that enforcement recovered about…

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