A rental license is required for any non-owner occupied unit, including relative homesteaded properties. This consists of one and two single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and multifamily properties. Use the 2024 Rental license application or the 2025 Rental license application to apply for your rental license. 

Contact Leah, Melissa or Lindsay at 952.924.2588 or inspections@stlouisparkmn.gov with questions.

Rental license training

Rental license training and a review every three years is required as part of the rental license ordinance. 

Rental owner/landlord training ordinance (Sec. 8-328) 

The owner or property manager must have attended a residential rental training program offered by the City of St. Louis Park before any rental license is issued. A temporary license may be issued following payment of the regular license fee for six months to accommodate the training schedule. An owner whose only rental housing is either unoccupied or a dwelling unit homesteaded by a relative is exempted from the training program. Owners or property managers are required to attend a training review every three years.

The rental license training course will be offered annually in the spring and fall. Training dates and registration will be sent utilizing the SPARC e-newsletter. If you are not currently receiving the SPARC e-newsletter please contact Katie Kline, housing specialist, at kkline@stlouisparkmn.gov to be added to the e-newsletter distribution list. The e-newsletter comes from the email address stlouisparkmn@public.govdelivery.com.

Refresher course available

Owners and managers who have taken the St. Louis Park rental license training are required to take a refresher course every three years. The web-based course can be taken on your own time, on a desktop or mobile device. If it has been over three years since you took the rental license training, you need to complete the training.

Access online refresher course.

The training will take about an hour to complete. Once you successfully complete the training, you will receive a confirmation email with a certificate of completion you can download for your records. The city will be automatically notified, and your training status will be updated in the license system.

Owners and managers who previously took the crime free training offered the by St. Louis Park police department also qualify to take the rental license refresher course.

For questions about the rental license training contact Katie Kline, housing specialist, at 952.928.1314 or kkline@stlouisparkmn.gov.

Rental license ordinance revisions

Following extensive public process and analysis, in August 2020, the St. Louis Park City Council adopted revisions to the rental license ordinance repealing the crime-free, drug-free sections of the ordinance. The revisions took effect in September 2020. Below are links to the revised ordinance and to the council report introducing the revisions.

• Aug. 17, 2020 city council report
• Rental housing ordinance

If you have completed the city’s required rental license training, you can still take advantage of free legal training Oct. 22 from 8:30 - 11 a.m. from Attorney Robin Ann Williams. Williams will do bias training and landlord-tenant law, including fair housing, reasonable accommodation, rental agreements and evictions.

Register for training.