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Plantation residents urge city to ease $2 million insurance rule for vacation rentals
Summary
Homeowners seeking short-term rental permits told the City Council they cannot find or afford the city's required $2 million aggregate liability certificate and asked staff to accept platform-provided policies or a lower aggregate limit.
Several Plantation homeowners asked the City Council on Tuesday to review the city's vacation-rental insurance requirement after their permit applications stalled while they tried to obtain the required certificate of liability insurance.
At a public comment segment, resident Aaron John told the council that his family's vacation-rental application (VR25055) is complete except for the city's insurance certificate and that agents he contacted said the $2,000,000 aggregate requirement is costly or unavailable for many small operators. "The only thing that's pending right now on the vacation rental application is the certificate of liability insurance," John said.
John and his mother, Angela John, said they tried multiple insurers and found $1,000,000 policies readily available…
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