Hi Jordan, The difference between short-term rental and vacation rental is a vacation rental is 30 days or less, a short-term rental is 31 days or more, the wording is very tricky, however you can switch to short-term rental to avoid the bureau cratic hoops, that's what we are doing going to the 31 days Plus to avoid the invasive procedures that they are requiring people to do along with the hefty fees involved. Also you will need to dispute your notification to get off of the list ,if you decide to go with the short-term rental like I did for 31 days or more, he decided to keep renting for less than you will need to register and go through all the fees and hoops and logs and inspections and be available within the hour and a sign an agent and a bunch of things they want you to do I hope this clears this up some what for you