Tamil Nadu homestay guide

Practical property and application checklist
Reviewed 5 September 2026

### Starting facts
- Exact property address
- District
- Local-body type
- Survey/plot identifiers
- Existing / proposed / under construction / running
- Homestay or B&B intended
- Silver or Gold intended
- Coastal/protected/heritage constraints checked
- Who will live in premises
- Who will operate
- Proposed guest rooms
- Proposed beds
### Ownership and applicant file
- Title deed/property records
- Current property-tax receipt
- Electricity receipt
- Co-owner/inheritance documents
- Applicant ID/contact
- Owner/promoter details
- Operator/agent details
- PAN
- GST status and reason
- Registered special power of authorisation if applicable
- Lease, if any
- Management agreement, if any
- Written Tourism clarification where entity/lease/operator structure is non-standard
### Property readiness
- Purely residential-use position checked
- Approved building plan “as applicable”
- Existing building compared with sanctioned plan
- Chartered Engineer stability certificate
- Room dimensions
- Bathroom dimensions
- Attached-bathroom position
- Water
- hot/cold water
- electricity
- ventilation/lighting
- kitchen
- dining
- fire extinguisher/fire safety
- surveillance
- parking
- motorable access
- waste/sewerage
- Wi-Fi if relevant to grade
- accessibility/building-law review
- CRZ/forest/heritage screening where applicable
### Application
- TORS account
- Form A
- Form C undertaking
- ownership proof
- special power if applicable
- road-access plan
- bus/rail/airport access plan
- facade/street/building/interior photos
- facility photos
- approved plan
- stability certificate
- coordinates/map
- PAN/GST documents
- Form B
- current registration fee
- current inspection charge confirmed before payment
### Inspection
- Use G.O.242 room limits, not stale Form B limits
- Confirm current checklist in writing for rooms exceeding old caps
- Confirm parking interpretation
- Confirm Silver attached-bath interpretation
- all claimed facilities actually present
- all documents available at inspection
- rectification list captured
- compliance submitted within published period
- reinspection authority and fee confirmed
### Operations
- Certificate accessible/displayed as instructed
- tariff displayed at premises
- room photographs/current tariff aligned with booking sites
- guest check-in/check-out register
- foreign-guest Form III system
- staff responsibilities
- FSSAI status if food served
- GST/tax review
- waste/sanitation
- fire equipment
- facility changes notified within one week
- periodic Tourism Statistics requirement confirmed
- insurance risk review
- local-body conditions continuously maintained
### Renewal
- Certificate expiry recorded
- renewal preparation begins more than three months before expiry
- self-renewal portal checked
- current renewal fee
- updated Form B/property standards
- foreign-guest records available
- rectification/periodic-inspection issues closed
- ownership/operator changes disclosed
- do not exceed two-month post-expiry window
- late penalty tracked if applicable