Letting your place as a holiday home

Every step, and what proves it happened

• 1. Landlord's no-objection to sub-let

  Only when the operator is not the owner — and it is the document most often missing. It goes IN the permit application, so it has to exist before the permit is applied for, not alongside it.

  UAQ DEDThe landlordConfirmed

• 2. Short-stay permission

  Ask UAQ DED what a short-stay unit needs before it is advertised. Holiday homes are licensed by UAQ DED, not by UAQ Municipality — two bodies in Umm Al Quwain, split by what is being licensed.

  UAQ DEDThe landlordNot confirmed

• 3. Record the grade you were licensed at

  The Tourism Dirham is charged per occupied unit per night at a rate set by your grade. Until it is recorded here we cannot show a guest what the stay totals - the listing shows a nightly rate and says the rest is settled at the property, which loses you the booking to whoever could show a total.

  The landlordConfirmed

• 4. Check whether you need a TRN

  You charge the 5% and you issue the tax invoice for the stay, not us - so the registration is yours, not ours. We have not confirmed where the threshold sits or how short-stay income counts toward it, so ask the Federal Tax Authority before you assume you are under it. PropDirect charges VAT on its subscription only, never on your room.

  The landlordNot confirmed

• 5. Set up how you get paid

  Guests pay you directly through Stripe — PropDirect never holds the money, and you issue the tax invoice for the stay. Your bank details go to Stripe, not to us.

  The landlordConfirmed

• 6. Price the nights, weeks and months

  A nightly rate alone prices a month at thirty times a night, which is not an offer anyone takes — hotel apartments here quote monthly. Set a weekly or monthly rate and long enquiries are quoted against it.

  The landlordConfirmed

• 7. Listing live

  Photographs, the nightly rate, and the permit number displayed on the listing itself.

  Your agentConfirmed

• 8. Booking confirmed

  The guest pays for the stay when they book, into your own Stripe account, and that payment confirms it. Dates, rate and the deposit. Tourism Dirham is charged per occupied unit per night and is collected from the guest, not absorbed.

  The tenantConfirmed

• 9. Guest registration with ICA

  Every guest's passport details within 24 hours of check-in. Federal and non-negotiable, and it repeats on every single booking rather than once per listing.

  ICAThe landlordConfirmed

• 10. Return the Tourism Dirham you collected

  Collected per occupied unit per night from the guest, and remitted monthly - by the 15th, for the month before. Dubai issues payment orders on the 11th. We show what is outstanding and keep your reference; the return itself is filed with the authority by you.

  The landlordConfirmed

• 11. Review the stay

  Only the guest who stayed can write one, once, and only after checkout. That is what makes the rating on a listing worth reading.

  The tenantConfirmed

• 12. Checkout and turnaround

  The stay ends, the unit is cleaned and the next booking begins. The permit and the guest registration are what carry forward — everything else resets.

  The landlordConfirmed