Airbnb and Short-Term Rentals in Casper and Central Wyoming
I help people buy, set up and run short-term rentals in Casper and the towns around it. I’m an Associate Broker with CBC Cornerstone Real Estate, licensed since 2004, and I manage short-term rentals myself, five to ten at a time depending on the season. So I can tell you before you write an offer whether a house will work as an Airbnb, what it takes to get it ready, and what will go wrong at 10 pm.
Call or text(307) 267-1190
- 2004Licensed in Wyoming
- 700+Homes sold
- 5 to 10Short-term rentals I run at a time
Two ways to work with me
Setup only. You own the property, or you’re about to. I help you choose one that works, check the rules for that address, get the lodging tax side registered, furnish and photograph it, write the listing and set the opening prices. Then you run it.
Full management. I run it. Guest messaging, cleaning and turnover, pricing, maintenance and a monthly owner statement. Most of my owners live out of state, and some have never seen the house in person. The rest live in Casper and don’t want the phone calls.
If you haven’t bought yet, I’m also your agent for the purchase. One person finds the property, runs the numbers, closes it and manages it, so the numbers you bought on are the numbers you live with. Buying from out of state is on my investing page.
Picking a property that works as a short-term rental
A house that makes a good long-term rental is not always a good short-term one, and the other way around.
What I look at first is where it sits. Guests in Casper are here for a reason: the hospital, the college, a job site, a wedding, a game, a hunting season. A place they can reach quickly from I-25 and park in front of beats a prettier house across town. Off-street parking matters more than people expect, because crews come in trucks.
Then the rules. Some HOAs and subdivision covenants ban rentals under 30 days, and that ends the conversation no matter how good the house is. I read the covenants before you offer.
Then the house itself. The ones that do best photograph well: updated, private, tastefully decorated, and in central, reasonably walkable parts of town. Run-down places, shared spaces, and anything rural or far from downtown and the main roads don’t do well.
The rules and taxes in Casper
Short answer: Casper doesn’t make you register a short-term rental, Wyoming taxes short stays, and the booking platforms collect most of it for you. The longer version:
The city. Casper has no short-term rental permit, license or registration. I checked the municipal code (current through July 2026) and the city’s licensing and zoning pages; the phrase doesn’t appear. The city’s lodging-facility license starts at four rental rooms or structures on one parcel, which is a motel, not your house. A few out-of-town websites claim Casper added an Airbnb license in 2026. It isn’t in the code. What does apply is the usual: parking, noise, trash, and your subdivision’s covenants.
The tax. Wyoming taxes short stays. A stay of fewer than 30 continuous days pays sales tax, the statewide lodging assessment and Natrona County’s local lodging portion, at rates the Department of Revenue updates on its chart (they changed this fall, which is why I’m not printing them). A stay of 30 continuous days or more is exempt from all of it, which is one reason monthly furnished rentals pencil differently.
Who files. Airbnb and Vrbo are marketplace facilitators under Wyoming law: on bookings they process, they collect the tax from the guest and send it to the state. You don’t touch it. Take direct bookings outside the platforms and you’re the vendor: you need a Wyoming sales and use tax license (an online application, about two weeks) and you file. The Department of Revenue’s bulletin says anyone renting a private residence to short-stay guests should hold the license; whether that includes platform-only hosts is a question the department answers for your situation, and I ask it as part of setup.
Rules change. I check them for the specific address before you buy, and again before the first guest.
Setting it up
Furnishing a short-term rental is a different job from furnishing a house you live in. Everything gets used harder, guests expect the basics to just work, and the photos have to earn the booking from someone in Denver scrolling on a phone. I know what to buy and what to skip, I have the people who clean and set up, and I write the listing straight.
The opening price is case by case; there’s no Casper nightly rate I’d quote from a chart. I set it from the property, the season and who’s in town, then adjust as bookings come in.
What full management includes
Guest messaging before, during and after the stay. Cleaning and turnover with the same people I use on my own properties. Pricing, adjusted through the year. Maintenance, with local tradespeople I already know. A monthly statement so you can see what came in and what went out.
I’m in Casper. When a guest can’t get the lockbox open at midnight or the furnace quits in January, someone local deals with it, and that someone is me. The call I get most, by a wide margin, is the internet. Second is the thermostat.
Neither needs a plumber. Both need a person who answers the phone.
Who stays in a Casper short-term rental
Every owner asks this. All kinds of people, in waves.
- Medical staff. Traveling nurses and other hospital staff on contracts.
- Energy crews. Oil-field and wind-turbine crews who want a kitchen and a driveway for the truck instead of a motel room.
- Families. Here for a wedding, a reunion or a holiday when the spare room at grandma’s is full.
- Event visitors. In town for a game, a rodeo, a concert or something at the college.
- Hunters and anglers. In season, with gear and early mornings.
- I-25 travelers. People who would rather sleep in a house than next to the interstate.
Occupancy follows the guests, so it moves through the year. The slowest months are December, January and February.
Nightly or monthly furnished
Some houses do better furnished by the month than by the night. A traveling nurse on a 13-week contract or a crew on a project wants a furnished place for a month or three, pays steadily, and turns the house over far less often. I manage those too. Before you furnish anything, I’ll run both sets of numbers for your property and tell you which I’d do.
If you’d rather have a plain long-term tenant and a twelve-month lease, that’s on my property management page.
Questions I get about Airbnbs in Casper
Are Airbnbs allowed in Casper?
Yes, as far as the city is concerned. Casper has no short-term rental permit, license or registration as of October 2026; I checked the municipal code and the city’s licensing pages. What can stop you is the subdivision: HOA covenants that ban rentals under 30 days, or a lease if you don’t own the house. I check covenants and the current rules for the specific address before you buy, because a blanket yes is how people end up with a furnished house they can’t rent.
Do I have to collect lodging tax on a short-term rental in Wyoming?
Yes, on stays under 30 continuous days: sales tax, the statewide lodging assessment and Natrona County’s local lodging portion, at the current rates on the Department of Revenue’s chart. Airbnb and Vrbo collect it from the guest and remit it on bookings they process. Direct bookings mean you hold a Wyoming sales and use tax license and file it yourself. Stays of 30 days or more are exempt.
Who stays in a Casper Airbnb?
Medical staff on contracts, oil-field and wind-turbine crews, families in town for weddings, reunions and holidays, event and college visitors, hunters in season, and I-25 travelers. The mix changes with the season and with where your house is.
Can you run it if I live out of state?
Yes. Most of my short-term rental owners live somewhere else. I handle guests, cleaning, pricing and maintenance in person, and you get a monthly statement. If you haven’t bought yet, I’ll find the property and close it with you from a distance; that process is on my investing page.
What do you charge to manage a short-term rental?
It depends on the property and how much of the work you want me to carry. I don’t post a rate because it isn’t one number. Call or text (307) 267-1190 with the address or the budget and I’ll walk you through it in a few minutes.
Is a furnished monthly rental better than nightly?
Often, here. A furnished rental of 30 days or more to a traveling nurse or a work crew is steadier, cleans less often, and a stay of 30 continuous days or more is exempt from Wyoming’s lodging and sales taxes. Nightly can gross more in a busy stretch and sit empty in a slow one. I’ll run both for your house and tell you which I’d do.