Property Management in Jackson Hole & Teton County, Wyoming

Jackson Hole and Teton County are not a typical Wyoming short-term rental market, and we'd rather tell you that plainly than let you find out after you've called. Short-term rental here is heavily zoning-restricted — by the Town of Jackson inside town limits, and by Teton County in the unincorporated area outside it. For most properties, running an Airbnb or VRBO simply isn't a legal option. Read the section below for what actually applies to your property before you decide what's possible.

Inside the Town of Jackson

To legally operate a short-term rental (STR) anywhere within the Town of Jackson, a property needs both a Business License, issued annually by the Town's Finance Department, and a Basic Use Permit (BUP), issued by the Planning Department. What that BUP requires depends on where the property sits:

• Inside the Lodging Overlay or Planned Resort Zone (downtown, Snow King Resort, and similar districts): a standard BUP applies, with no special cap on stays or nights, and no neighbor notification requirement.
• Outside the Lodging Overlay — ordinary residential zones NL-1 through NL-5, NM-1, NM-2, NH-1, R, MHP, and OR — a property is capped at a maximum of 3 separate stays and 60 total rental nights per calendar year. The BUP must be renewed annually (it expires every December 31), requires notification of neighbors within 200 feet of the property for each year of operation, and a violation bars the property from getting a new BUP for a minimum of five years.

Full detail: jacksonwy.gov — Short-Term Rentals and jacksonwy.gov — Basic Use.

Outside town limits, in unincorporated Teton County

Teton County applies a flat 31-day minimum rental period countywide: any lease or rental agreement, written or verbal, must run 31 days or more and can't restrict occupancy to less than that period within it. That rule applies to every residential property in the county except a specific, named list of pre-approved resort developments:

• The Aspens (condominiums and single-family homes)
• Crescent H “Fish Lodges” (Crescent H lot 8)
• Golf Creek (condominiums only)
• Teton Shadows (condominiums only)
• Jackson Hole Racquet Club Resort Commercial Area (Teton Pines' 64 lodging units)
• Spring Creek Ranch (up to 200 of its 301 permitted dwelling units)
• Teton Village Area I (condominiums and single-family homes)
• Teton Village Area II (condominiums and townhouses)
• Snake River Canyon Ranch Resort Area II & III
• Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis Resort (cabins only)
• Grand Targhee Resort

Source: Teton County Planning FAQ — "Can I rent out my home or guest house?"

Outside that list, true short-term (sub-31-day) rental is not legally available in Teton County. Violations are referred to the County Attorney, and Wyoming statute authorizes a fine of up to $750 per day, per violation. Full detail: tetoncountywy.gov — Planning FAQs and tetoncountywy.gov — Short-Term Rental Violations.

Zoning at a glance

This is a summary for orientation only, not a substitute for confirming your property's actual zone with the Town of Jackson Planning Department or Teton County Planning & Building Department directly — rules and district boundaries can change, and a summary table can't capture every edge case.

If short-term rental isn't an option for your property

Most Jackson Hole and Teton County properties fall outside an eligible STR zone — which is exactly where a licensed brokerage has something an Airbnb-only co-host doesn't. If your property can't legally short-term rent, Wyo Stays can still put it to work:

• Long-term rental placement & management — tenant screening, lease drafting, rent collection through a licensed trust account, and ongoing management for a property renting on the 31-day-or-longer basis Teton County allows everywhere.
• Commercial leasing — for properties zoned or suited for commercial use, brokerage representation on the leasing side.
• Selling the property — if long-term hold isn't the goal, a licensed listing and sale through the same brokerage, rather than starting over with a separate real estate agent.

This isn't a consolation prize — it's the actual value of working with a licensed real estate brokerage instead of an Airbnb co-host. A co-host's entire toolkit stops working the moment short-term rental isn't legally on the table. A brokerage's doesn't. See how that works if selling is the direction that makes sense.

If your property is in an eligible short-term rental zone

If your property sits inside the Town of Jackson's Lodging Overlay or Planned Resort Zone, or inside one of Teton County's named exempt developments above, short-term rental is a real option — and Wyo Stays manages it the same way we manage it everywhere else in Wyoming: listing setup and photography, dynamic pricing, guest messaging, cleaning and turnover coordination, and licensing and tax setup, all handled under a written property management agreement with guest funds held in a licensed trust account.

Licensed and insured

Wyo Stays operates as a licensed Wyoming real estate brokerage. Under Wyoming law, managing a rental for someone else's compensation — collecting rent, handling bookings, accounting for fees received on an owner's behalf — is a regulated real estate activity, and a licensed brokerage has to hold those funds in a dedicated trust account that can't be commingled with operating funds. That comes with a fiduciary duty to the owner and accountability to the Wyoming Real Estate Commission. We also carry errors & omissions (E&O) insurance.

You can verify our license status yourself through the Wyoming Real Estate Commission's public license lookup in about thirty seconds — search "Wyo Stays" or "Dalton Goodyear." See what "licensed and insured" actually means for the full breakdown.

How we serve Jackson Hole and Teton County from Sheridan

To be direct about it: Wyo Stays does not have a physical office or staff stationed in Jackson or anywhere in Teton County. We're a licensed statewide Wyoming brokerage based in Sheridan, 373 road miles away via US-14/16/20 through Worland and Thermopolis, then US-26/287 west through Dubois and over Togwotee Pass, about 6 hours and 33 minutes — the longest drive in our service area, and we say so plainly rather than imply a local presence that isn't there. That distance doesn't change the license: a Wyoming real estate broker's license carries statewide, so tenant placement, leasing, sale representation, and — where zoning allows it — STR management are all handled under the same trust-account and licensing protections we use everywhere else. This is a licensed statewide brokerage relationship, not a local drop-in service.