All hotels, motels, and bed & breakfast establishments must have a VDH lodging permit.
Opening a residential-style rental facility?
VDH has established Policy Implementation Memo (PIM) 18-01 
, which outlines that residential-style rentals that meet the definition of a “bed and breakfast facility” (12VAC5-431-10 ) require a VDH Lodging Permit.
“Bed and breakfast facility” means a residential-type establishment that provides two or more rental accommodations and food service on any single day to a maximum of 18 transient guests for a period of five or more days in any calendar year or any residential type of facility providing at least one rental accommodation for transient guests and food service for a total of 30 or more days in any calendar year.
In the context of this definition, “food service” does not include providing whole, uncut produce, or commercially-packaged food that does not require refrigeration.
