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How to rent my house to traveling nurses

Traveling nurses take work away from home and need somewhere to live while they do it, often a furnished place for a month or longer. If you want to rent your house to one, you are setting up a furnished rental of a month or more, and the work is the same whoever ends up living there. You need to find where your local rules draw the short-stay line, report the rent, tell your insurer, screen applicants by the rules, and keep the listing open to anyone who qualifies. This page covers each of those, with a link to every source.

General information, not legal or tax advice. The sources were checked on 30 September 2026, and rules change.

1. Rent the home, not the job title

It is reasonable to hope a nurse on assignment will take your house, and to write a listing that such a person would find useful. What the listing shouldn’t do is make the job a condition.

HUD’s overview of the Fair Housing Act says the Act protects people from discrimination when they are renting a home, and that housing discrimination is illegal in nearly all housing, including private housing. It lists the bases the Act prohibits discrimination because of: race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability.

“Traveling nurse” is not on that list, because it is a job. That makes it a description of who you hope will apply, not a reason to turn away a family, or anyone else the Act protects, who applies instead. The simplest way to keep it that way is to leave the tenant out of the listing altogether.

2. Find where your local rules draw the line

A furnished stay of about a month sits close to the line many local rules draw between short-term and longer rentals. The line is local, it is not drawn the same way everywhere, and there is no single national rule. Two examples show how much the wording matters.

Ventura, California

The City of Ventura’s Short-Term Vacation Rentals page defines a short-term vacation rental as a dwelling unit, other than one in a hotel, that is rented to a tenant for a period of not more than 30 consecutive days, and says a permit is required to operate one in the City. The same page lists Transient Occupancy Tax at 10% of rents for stays under 30 days.

Read the two lines closely. The permit definition includes a stay of exactly 30 consecutive days; the tax line covers stays under 30 days. That is Ventura’s rule, for homes in Ventura only.

Florida

Florida Statutes §509.013 (2026) sets out the state’s lodging definitions. A transient public lodging establishment is one rented to guests more than three times in a calendar year for periods of less than 30 consecutive days, or advertised or held out to the public as regularly rented for periods of less than 30 consecutive days. A nontransient public lodging establishment is rented, or advertised as regularly rented, for periods of at least 30 consecutive days.

The statute then excludes some homes from both definitions. One exclusion covers any unit in a condominium, cooperative, or timeshare plan, and any individually or collectively owned one- to four-family dwelling house or dwelling unit, that is rented for periods of at least 30 days or 1 calendar month, whichever is less, and is not advertised or held out to the public as a place regularly rented for periods of less than 1 calendar month, provided that no more than four rental units within a single complex of buildings are available for rent.

Advertising counts as well as length. A house rented by the month but advertised as regularly rented for shorter stays does not meet that exclusion. That is Florida’s rule, for Florida only.

Everywhere else

Look up your city or county’s rules on rentals and short-term rentals, and find out where its line falls and how it counts the days. If your home is in a condominium or has a homeowners association, read those rules too. Then set your minimum stay, and the way you describe the rental, to match.

Also find out what a month-long occupant becomes where you live. Airbnb’s help page on monthly stays tells hosts that in some jurisdictions guests may establish rights as a tenant after a month. If that is true where your house is, it shapes what happens when a stay doesn’t end on the date everyone expected.

3. Report the rent

For federal income tax, the reference is IRS Publication 527 (2025), Residential Rental Property. The points that matter for a furnished stay of a month or more:

That is federal income tax only. State and local taxes are separate questions, answered where your house is. A tax professional can tell you how these rules apply to your year.

4. Call your insurance agent first

The Insurance Information Institute’s guide to coverage for renting out your home puts it plainly: before renting out your home, your first step should be to call your insurance agent. Depending on the rental, a standard homeowners policy may not cover losses incurred while the home is rented out.

For a lease to one person, a couple, or a family for a longer period, which the guide illustrates as six months or a year, it says you will likely need a landlord or rental dwelling policy, and that landlord policies generally cost about 25 percent more than a standard homeowners policy. That figure is Triple-I’s general estimate, not a quote for your house. The guide doesn’t discuss stays of a month or a few months specifically, so tell your agent exactly what you plan: how long each stay will be, that the house is furnished, whether you will live there between stays, and whether you will clean during a stay.

The same guide notes that a landlord policy covers the structure and your financial interest in it, not the tenant’s belongings, and that many landlords require a tenant to buy renters insurance before signing a lease.

5. Screen every applicant the same way

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s page What is a tenant screening report? explains that many landlords use a tenant screening report to help decide whether to rent to someone and how much to charge for the security deposit. A report may include credit reports, rental history (including eviction actions and lawsuits), and employment verification, among other things.

If you use one, know the notice rule before you turn anyone down. A landlord is required by federal law to let the applicant know:

Run the same checks for a nurse on assignment as for anyone else. The fair housing point above is the reason to keep them the same.

6. Put the stay in writing

For the same ground without the nurse framing, see How to rent my house monthly.

7. Choose where to list it

These work differently. Two of them are other companies, described from their own pages.

List your house for stays of 30 nights or more

Fab Rent Homes is a place to list a home for stays of 30 nights or more, for anyone who needs one, nurses on assignment included. Your home starts as a draft, and you choose when to publish it. Booking opens when Fab Rent Homes turns on guest bookings. That is separate from your listing, so you can start now.

If your house is in Ventura, a 30-night minimum sits right at the City’s line of not more than 30 consecutive days, so confirm with the City how your stays are counted before you publish.

Start your listing

Sources

Checked 30 September 2026.