Who built this, and why it is free

I am Eran Lotem, co-founder of 5 Star STR, one of the Las Vegas valley’s leading premium vacation rental management companies. We manage more than 30 homes across Las Vegas and Henderson, and I built this tool because the people who need the answer most had nowhere reliable to get it.

Why this exists

Every week an investor, a real estate agent or a homeowner asks whether a specific house can be rented short-term, and the honest answer is almost never simple. The valley has four governments writing four different rule books, most of the addresses that say "Las Vegas" are not in the City of Las Vegas, and the two numbers that decide most applications are distances you cannot eyeball from a listing photo. Getting it wrong is expensive: an agent who assures a buyer, an owner who closes on a house that can never be licensed, an investor who models revenue that is not legal to earn.

We already had to build the parcel data to answer this for our own portfolio. Making it public cost us nothing extra, and it means the answer no longer depends on who you happen to know.

It is free, there is no account, and you can use it without ever talking to us.

About Eran Lotem

Eran Lotem

Co-founder, 5 Star STR. I run a portfolio of more than 30 premium vacation rentals across Las Vegas and Henderson, which means these four rule books, the licensing offices and the separation distances are not research to me. They are the job. I work them on real properties, with real money on the line, every week.

Ten years in the service industry taught me that the work was never really about the work. It was about how you make people feel. When something goes wrong at 2am, someone on our team is awake and handling it. The same standard applies here: if this tool tells you something, it should be something I would be willing to say to you on the phone.

Written and maintained by Eran Lotem.

Co-founder of 5 Star STR, one of the Las Vegas valley’s leading premium vacation rental management companies, with more than 30 homes under management. He works these four rule books, the licensing offices and the separation distances for a living, which is why this page is kept current rather than published once. More about him and why this is free →

The part you should know before you trust us

We manage vacation rentals for a living. If you are looking for a manager we would obviously like it to be us. That is the whole business model behind a free tool, and you should read anything we publish knowing it.

What we will not do is bend a verdict to win a client. A tool that told people what they wanted to hear would be worthless to us within a month, because the first owner who bought on a wrong answer would be right to say so publicly. When the answer is "this address cannot be licensed", the tool says that, and it says it even when the property would have been a good one for us to manage.

We are not attorneys and this is not legal advice. Only the city or county licensing office can give you a binding determination, and we say so on every result.

Where the data comes from

• City limit boundaries from the Clark County GIS office, tested per parcel rather than by ZIP code.
• Licensed short-term rental parcels published by Henderson, the City of Las Vegas, Clark County and the North Las Vegas Conditional Use Permit layer.
• Resort corridor parcels, for the 2,500 ft buffer required valley-wide.
• Rules read from each jurisdiction's municipal code and licensing pages, verified August 2026.

Found something wrong? Tell us and we will fix it. That is not a formality: the ordinances move every few months and the corrections we get from agents and owners are how this stays accurate. 702-887-1099.