What Houston actually requires
after you get your certificate

✓ Annual Human Trafficking Training is required every year — not once at registration.
Most operators completed it once and have been out of compliance since.

✓ 15-Calendar-Day Change Reporting — any contact change, platform update, or management shift not reported within 15 days automatically invalidates your certificate.
Not suspended. Gone.

✓ Two-Strike Violation Tracking — two noise citations in 12 months and your certificate is revocation-eligible. The city tracks your count. They do not notify you at strike one.

· · · and 5 more most operators have never heard of

As of April 2026, approximately 1,450 registered Houston operators are already out of compliance
(Source: Rental Scale-Up, April 2026)

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who built this and why

I read Houston's STR ordinance and saw that operators were being set up to fail — not through negligence, but because nobody built them a system. I spent 20 years building compliance and oversight infrastructure for large financial institutions. I know what it costs when someone assumes someone else is tracking something. That assumption costs institutions millions. For Houston STR operators, it costs a certificate. STR Pulse is the system I would have built for any operator who wants to know their status before the city does.
— Désirée C. Mittman, Founder

At Houston's minimum fine rate of $100 per day,
22 days of a lapsed certificate costs more than a year of STR Pulse.Free checklist.
Paid monitoring starts at $179/month (month-to-month).

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