The address on a Las Vegas short-term rental tells you which rulebook you live under, and most owners don't find that out until a code officer or an HOA letter forces the issue. A house on Fort Apache in Spring Valley and a house two miles east off Green Valley Parkway in Henderson can be a fifteen-minute drive apart and answer to two completely different governments. Same valley. Same guests flying into Harry Reid. Different registration, different separation math, different paperwork on your fridge.
We turn units in all four of these regimes, so here's how they actually differ on the ground, and what each one quietly hands to the person cleaning your place.
Unincorporated Clark County: the strict one
Enterprise, Paradise, Spring Valley and Summerlin South aren't cities. They're unincorporated Clark County, and they run under Chapter 7.100 — the tightest regime in the valley. The application window closed back in August 2023, there's a roughly 1,000-foot separation required between licensed STRs, a $300 annual business license, and mandatory liability insurance of $500,000. Heavy enforcement started September 1, 2025, so the days of running quietly are done.
What that means for turnovers is documentation. The county expects a licensed, compliant operation, which means your cleaner shouldn't be the mystery person who lets themselves in with a code nobody wrote down. Keep a clean access log and a local contact who actually answers. Most of our Enterprise and Paradise work sits in this bucket, and the owners who sleep well are the ones treating the permit as the floor, not the ceiling.
City of Las Vegas: owner has to live there
Cross into the actual City of Las Vegas and the big one is occupancy. The STR has to be owner-occupied. It also has to sit at least 660 feet from any other licensed STR and 2,500 feet from a resort hotel — which knocks out a lot of the Strip-adjacent inventory people assume they can rent. If you're living in the home, the cleaning rhythm changes: you're not doing full arrival-to-departure resets on an empty house, you're working around an owner's own space. Communication matters more here than anywhere else.
Henderson: cameras, noise monitors, and no parties
Henderson wrote the most hands-on rulebook. Registration runs $820 a year, you need 1,000 radial feet of separation, a stay length of 2 nights minimum, 30 nights maximum, a street-facing security camera, continuously running noise-monitoring devices, a local contact who lives inside Clark County, the same $500k liability, and a flat ban on parties and events.
Green Valley and Anthem are full of the single-family homes with pools and hot tubs that make Henderson popular, and a lot of Anthem is guard-gated. That's a real cleaning-logistics item: guard-gated communities need cleaner access clearance on file before we can even reach your door, and a same-day turn falls apart if the gate has no record of us. The noise monitor and camera don't affect our work directly, but the local-contact rule often does — plenty of owners default to their cleaner as the person on the registration. Fine, as long as everyone agrees to it in writing first. See how we handle Henderson turnovers if that's your market.
North Las Vegas: the apartment problem
North Las Vegas is the short section because the rule is blunt: no STRs in apartment buildings, and a 10% cap on units in any multifamily property. If your investment thesis was buying a condo up here and renting it nightly, check the building type before you buy the furniture.
What all four share
The tax and the weather don't care about jurisdiction lines. Clark County transient lodging tax is 13% on stays under 30 days, ticking up to 13.38% inside the Primary Gaming Corridor near the Strip. Airbnb and Vrbo remit some of that for you, but not always the full local portion — worth confirming rather than assuming.
And the desert hits every one of these homes the same way. Summers run 110 to 115, guests leave the A/C blasting, and the caliche dust coats ceiling fans, blinds and light fixtures faster than anywhere I've cleaned. Late-summer monsoon haboobs will bury a pool deck overnight. Pools need testing several times a week because the UV eats chlorine, and the hard water leaves scale on every shower door. None of that shows up in an ordinance, but it's the actual reason your cleaning bill in July isn't your cleaning bill in March.
The event calendar is the other constant. CES in January, EDC in May, the F1 Grand Prix closing streets around Las Vegas Blvd and Koval that November week, NFR in December, New Year's — turnovers compress to back-to-back windows and routing between the 215 Beltway, I-15 and I-11 becomes half the job. If you're not sure which of the four regimes your property falls under, or you just want a straight read on it, tell us the cross streets and we'll tell you what you're dealing with. More on how we work across the valley on our main page.