Every date your building has to hit this year
Grouped by the rules that cover you. Print it and put it on the wall. Not sure which set is yours? Check your standing first.
Where we do not hold a verified date, we say so instead of guessing.
City of Los Angeles: Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO)
Rental units in the City of Los Angeles whose first certificate of occupancy was issued before October 1, 1978, in buildings of two or more units. A detached single-family home that is the only dwelling unit on its parcel, and a building first occupied after October 1, 1978, are generally not RSO, but most are still covered by the city's Just Cause Ordinance (JCO) and by state law.
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LA City annual rent registry report due
Every year, February , on the last day
Report the current rent for every rental unit subject to the RSO, by the last day of February. Registration is complete only once every outstanding fee is paid and the rent, tenancy and emergency contact information is in. Rent Registry Ordinance #184529, effective October 4, 2016.
An unregistered unit cannot legally have its rent collected or increased. This is the deadline that costs the most to miss.
Source: LAHD Tenant Rent Registry Verified August 9, 2026
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LA City annual RSO/JCO/SCEP bill goes delinquent
Every year, February , on the last day
LAHD bills the RSO, SCEP and JCO fees together on one annual bill. The fee is due in January and is assessed a delinquent fee if payment is not received by the last day of February. The fees are per unit and are not prorated.
Late roughly doubles every line: $38.75 becomes $58.13, $67.94 becomes $135.88, $31.05 becomes $46.58 per unit. Not receiving the bill does not waive the fee or the penalty, and a penalty can only be appealed within 45 days of the statement date.
About this date: Mailing a check? Send it 10 or more days early: postmarks do not count. LAHD's own payment-methods page states that the postmark date is not accepted as an indicator of a timely payment and recommends mailing at least 10 days before the due date, so a payment posted on the last day of February arrives delinquent.
Source: LAHD Annual RSO/JCO/SCEP Bill Verified August 9, 2026
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New LA City RSO annual increase percentage takes effect
Every year, July 1
LAHD publishes the allowable increase for the year running July 1 to June 30. The 2027–28 figure is not published yet.
This is the number your next increase notice depends on. We update the table and email you the new figure with its source.
LAHD Allowable Rent Increase Bulletin #3
Source: LAHD Allowable Rent Increase Bulletin #3 (rev. 02/02/2026) Verified August 9, 2026
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New LA City security deposit interest rate published
Every year, January 1
The Rent Adjustment Commission sets the deposit interest rate for the new calendar year. LAMC §151.06.02(B)(1)(a) has the Commission adopt it by November 30 and publish it, and the rate it adopts runs January 1 through December 31. Your ledger switches to the new rate on January 1.
The rate moves every year: it fell from 4.32% in 2025 to 3.03% in 2026.
Source: LAMC 151.06.02 via LAHD Bulletin #44: Interest Payments on Security Deposits (rev. 01/13/2026) Verified August 9, 2026
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LA City deposit interest for last year: pay it, and put your choice in writing
Every year, January 31
LAMC §151.06.02(C), as Bulletin #44 restates it, gives you two choices to make and one of them has to be in writing: whether the accrued interest goes to the tenant as a direct payment or as a credit against rent, and whether you pay it monthly or yearly. If you pay yearly, this is the reminder to pay the year that just closed and to have told the tenant, in writing, which of the two methods you use.
Unpaid interest does not go away. When the tenancy ends it all comes due at once, with the deposit, in the same manner the Civil Code requires for returning a deposit, and by then the rate has moved every year and the arithmetic is a decade long.
About this date: This date is ours, not LAHD's. LAMC §151.06.02(C) lets you pay monthly or yearly and fixes no annual due date. We anchor the yearly option to January 31, the month the new rate is published, so the year that just closed gets settled before the new one starts.
Source: LAMC 151.06.02 via LAHD Bulletin #44: Interest Payments on Security Deposits (rev. 01/13/2026) Verified August 9, 2026
What we do not hold for LA City RSO
- LAHD does not publish the month it mails the annual RSO/JCO/SCEP bill. We hold the due date (January) and the delinquency date (the last day of February), and the reminder is anchored to the delinquency date rather than to a mailing you may never receive.
- Bulletin #44 sets both the deposit-interest rate and how it has to be paid, and attributes the rule to LAMC 151.06.02. The city's live code host refuses automated requests, so we read the section in a 2020 compilation of Chapter XV: the payment-method rule is subsection C and the end-of-tenancy rule is subsection D. We cite the bulletin, which is current, and name the subsections from the compilation, which may not be.
- We hold no relocation-assistance figures for LA City. LAHD publishes them in its Relocation Assistance Bulletin and raises them every July 1, and the amount turns on the tenant's category, income, tenancy length and which of three Resident Protections Ordinance options an owner takes. We say relocation assistance applies and link to LAHD rather than print a number we would have to pick for you.
Los Angeles County (unincorporated): Rent Stabilization & Tenant Protections Ordinance (RSTPO)
Rental units in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, not inside any city. Places like Altadena, East Los Angeles, Ladera Heights, View Park–Windsor Hills, Marina del Rey and Hacienda Heights are unincorporated.
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LA County rent registry annual filing due
Every year, September 30
File the annual rent registry for every covered unit and pay the registry fee.
A 10% late penalty applies after the deadline, and County Code §8.52.050.B lets you impose an annual increase only once the unit is registered, the fees are paid and you are in compliance. Unregistered, the increase is not yours to take.
Source: DCBA Rent Registry Verified August 9, 2026
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New LA County annual increase caps take effect
Every year, July 1
DCBA publishes the caps for the year running July 1 to June 30: general, small-property-landlord, luxury and mobile home space.
DCBA Rent Stabilization Program
Source: DCBA Rent Stabilization Program Verified August 9, 2026
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Small property landlord self-certification: file before you use the extra 1%
Every year, September 30
The +1% (2.919% instead of 1.919%) only applies if you have self-certified as a small property landlord with DCBA, under penalty of perjury, and said so in the rent-increase notice. It is an annual certification, and DCBA's form tells you to file it with your annual registration.
On a $2,500 rent that extra 1% is about $300 a year per unit that you are otherwise not allowed to collect.
About this date: DCBA publishes no separate due date for the self-certification. Its form says to provide a copy when you submit the annual registration for the property, so we place the reminder on the September 30 registration deadline. If you plan to use the higher cap before then, file it first.
Small Property Landlord Self-Certification form
Source: DCBA Small Property Landlord Self-Certification Form (rev. 11/21/2024) Verified August 9, 2026
What we do not hold for LA County RSTPO
- Our coverage test reads the certificate-of-occupancy date off the year the building was built, because that is the fact an owner and the assessor's file both hold. The two usually agree and the ordinance's test is the permit, not the construction. A building put up either side of February 1, 1995 should have its certificate of occupancy checked before anyone relies on which side of the line it falls.
- DCBA does not publish a standalone due date for the small-property-landlord self-certification. Its form directs you to file it with the annual registration, so our reminder sits on the September 30 registration deadline and the calendar entry says so.
- DCBA publishes a 10% late fee for registering after September 30 but does not publish the base it is charged on. We carry the 10% with that stated on the figure.
- Chapter 8.52 is hosted on Municode, which blocks automated reading. We verified the subsection text of §8.52.050 against the County's own adopting ordinance and DCBA's rent increase bulletin instead.
City of Santa Monica: Rent Control
Controlled rental units in the City of Santa Monica. The Rent Control Board's own overview says most residential rental buildings in the city built before April 10, 1979 are covered, along with certain units built after that date, and that Rent Control also applies to certain single-family homes and condominiums.
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Santa Monica General Adjustment becomes available
Every year, September 1
The new GA can be used for rent years starting September 1. You still have to give 30 days' written notice before it takes effect.
It is not automatic. The tenancy has to have started before September 1 of the previous year, every registration fee and penalty on the property has to be paid, the tenancy has to be properly registered, and there can be no uncorrected citations or notices of violation of health, safety or housing laws on the property.
Santa Monica: Maximum Lawful Rent
Source: Santa Monica: Maximum Lawful Rent Verified August 9, 2026
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Santa Monica annual registration fee due
Every year, August 1
The Rent Control Board's annual per-unit registration fee ($240 a unit for the 2026/2027 fiscal year) has to be paid in full by August 1. Bills are mailed at the beginning of July.
The Board's FAQ says the bills "must be paid by August 1 in order for the owners to pass fifty percent of the fees paid for each unit through to the tenants as a monthly surcharge." Miss it and you lose the $10 a month pass-through for the year, and an unpaid fee or penalty also costs you the General Adjustment.
About this date: The fee is reset annually. $240 is the figure the city publishes for 2026/2027. Check the amount on your own bill.
Santa Monica: Registering Ownership, Tenancies and Amenities
Source: Santa Monica Rent Control Board: Frequently Asked Questions (v. 6/16/2025) Verified August 9, 2026
What we do not hold for Santa Monica
- The General Adjustment conditions are quoted from the Rent Control Board's own FAQ and Maximum Lawful Rent page, which attribute them to Chapter 3 of the Rent Control regulations. We have not read that chapter's text directly.
- August 1 is the fee date the Board's FAQ prints, and its 2025 General Adjustment notice used August 1, 2025. The FAQ also calls it the date fees are "usually" due, so a year where the Board moves it is possible; the bill is the authority.
- SMMC Chapter 4.25's codified text was read directly on eCode360 on August 9, 2026: effective dates, the January 1, 2027 rent-collection bar, and the $200/unit/month penalty are now primary-sourced. What still does not exist anywhere: the annual registration deadline (awaiting administrative regulations under §4.25.080) and the fee amount (awaiting a council resolution under §4.25.070(a)). We generate no reminder until the city publishes them.
City of West Hollywood: Rent Stabilization
Rent-stabilized units in the City of West Hollywood: dwellings on properties with two or more units first occupied, or issued a certificate of occupancy, on or before July 1, 1979. Those are the units under the full Rent Stabilization Ordinance (WHMC Chapter 17). Newer units and most single-family homes and condominiums fall outside it.
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West Hollywood Annual General Adjustment becomes available
Every year, September 1
The new AGA applies to rent years starting September 1. Notices may go out from August 1, and only if the unit's registration is in order (initial registration complied with, re-registered after any vacancy for tenancies from 1996 on, all annual fees paid) and twelve months have passed since move-in or the last adjustment. Written notice to the tenant is required, in accordance with current state law.
There is no banking in West Hollywood: an adjustment you do not charge during the year it is in effect is lost.
About this date: If your tenant holds a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher, the city says the notice is sixty days, not thirty.
West Hollywood Rent Stabilization
Source: West Hollywood: Annual Increases in the Maximum Allowable Rent Verified August 9, 2026
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West Hollywood annual registration fee due
Every year, July 1
Pay the annual registration fee ($144 a unit) for every unit. Bills are mailed to the address on file by mid-June. July 1 is also the last day to file an exemption application for a unit that qualifies; miss it and the unit is billed for the whole fiscal year.
You can only pass through the $6/month registration surcharge once the fee is paid in full, and an unpaid fee also blocks the Annual General Adjustment. A late fee can be assessed on payment made after July 15.
West Hollywood: Registration Fees
Source: City of West Hollywood: Rent Stabilization Registration Fees Verified August 9, 2026
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West Hollywood security deposit interest due to tenants
Every year, January 31
Pay each tenant the interest that accrued on their security deposit during the prior calendar year.
A tenant who has not been paid may deduct what they are owed from their rent as of February 1. Miss the date and the money leaves anyway, on their terms.
West Hollywood Rent Stabilization forms
Source: City of West Hollywood: Rent Stabilization Verified August 9, 2026
What we do not hold for West Hollywood
- We hold a 2025 deposit-interest rate for West Hollywood but not a 2026 rate; the 2026 figure is normally published near the end of the year. As of August 9, 2026 the city's page still shows 4.3% for deposits held during 2025.
- The $60 Section 8 registration rate now rests on an archived snapshot of a page the city has since deleted. Everything else (the $144 fee, the $6.00 pass-through, the July 1 due date, the 2.75% AGA and the 4.3% deposit rate) is read from the city's live pages or its own Summer 2026 newsletter.
- The city's own pages disagreed on the fee due date: the live Registration Fees page says July 1 with a late fee after July 15, while the deleted New Landlords page said July 15. We use July 1, the earlier and still-published date.
- We hold West Hollywood's permanent relocation fees for no-fault evictions from the city's Summer 2026 newsletter, but the table carries no relocation facts yet, so the product does not quote them.
- West Hollywood's municipal code is behind a host that refuses automated requests, so we cite the city's own pages and published newsletters rather than the WHMC chapter text.
City of Pasadena: Rent Stabilization (Charter Article XVIII / Measure H)
Covered rental units in the City of Pasadena.
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Pasadena rental registry window
Every year, September 1 through October 31
Register every covered unit and pay $236.54 per unit. The window is September 1 through October 31, with a grace period through November 7, 2026.
Late fees are tiered after the 7-day grace period: +15% ($35.48) at 8–45 days, +30% ($70.96) at 46–90 days, +50% ($118.27) at 91 days or more. And a landlord who is not in substantial compliance (registration included) may not impose the Annual General Adjustment at all.
Source: Pasadena Rental Registry Verified August 9, 2026
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Pasadena Annual General Adjustment takes effect
Every year, October 1
The new AGA applies to rent years starting October 1, and Charter §1808(a)(4) gives you until September 30 to take it. Miss the window and it does not carry forward. It is only yours to impose if you are in substantial compliance with the Charter and the PRHB Regulations, rental registration included (Charter §1808(e)(1), PRHB Regulations Chapter 9 §I.1). The notice needs thirty days (Charter §1808(c)) and must state that Article XVIII exists and that the tenant may petition (Charter §1808(d)).
Source: Pasadena Rental Housing Board Resolution RHB-2026-10 (adopted 6/18/2026) Verified August 9, 2026
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Pasadena security deposit interest due to tenants
Every year, January 31
Pay each tenant the interest that accrued on their security deposit during the prior calendar year, on every deposit you have held for at least a year. By check or as a rent credit (your election, or electronically if you have both agreed to that in writing), and with a notice showing the rate applied and the calculation.
PRHB Regulations Chapter 10 sets January 31 as the deadline, every year. When a tenancy ends, any unpaid interest goes back inside the Civil Code §1950.5 deposit-return timeframe, itemised.
Pasadena security deposit information sheet
Source: PRHB Regulations Chapter 10: Security Deposits (rev. 11/6/2025), implementing Charter §1806(f) Verified August 9, 2026
What we do not hold for Pasadena
- We hold Pasadena deposit-interest rates for 2025 and 2026 only. The Board adopts each year's rate by November 1 of the year before, and our ledger leaves earlier years blank rather than guessing at them.
- The resolution number that adopted the $236.54 Rental Housing Fee is not in our table. The amount, the window and the late tiers are from the city's own rental registry page.
- Charter §1812(c) says owners must register "no later than April 1st" each year, while PRHB Regulations Chapter 9 §C.1 and the city's registry page both set the annual deadline at October 31. We follow the Board's regulation and the city's published window, because that is what the Rent Stabilization Department administers, and we note the Charter text says otherwise.
- Our copy of Charter Article XVIII is the text the voters enacted in 2022, published by the City Clerk. Any amendment made to the article since then would not show up in it.
California AB 1482: Tenant Protection Act (statewide)
The statewide fallback. It applies to units that are not covered by a stricter local rent-control ordinance and are not exempt. Where a local ordinance applies, the local cap is used instead.
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New AB 1482 statewide cap takes effect (Los Angeles and Orange Counties)
Every year, August 1
The cap for August 1 through July 31 is recomputed from April CPI under Civil Code §1947.12(g)(3)(B)(ii). For 2026–27 it is 8.7%, up from 8.0%.
Source: BLS CPI-U series CUURS49ASA0: Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim (recomputed from the raw series) Verified August 9, 2026
What we do not hold for AB 1482
- The exemption list is read straight from Civil Code §1947.12(d), and the disclosure from §1946.2(e)(8)(B) and §1947.12(d)(5)(B). What we cannot read off a statute is your side of it: which exemption you fall under turns on your ownership structure, your certificate of occupancy date and what your rental agreement actually says. Use the exemption checker as a starting point and confirm before you rely on it.
- The 8.7% is the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim CPI-U, which Civil Code §1947.12(g)(1)(A)(i) assigns to Los Angeles and Orange Counties only. A property in Riverside or San Bernardino County is on its own index under §1947.12(g)(1)(A)(ii) and gets a different number. Do not carry this one across the county line.
- Both halves of the Tenant Protection Act are dated: Civil Code §1947.12 and §1946.2 are each repealed as of January 1, 2030 by their own terms. Nothing changes before then unless the Legislature acts, but the cap is not permanent law.
Every jurisdiction above has a date with a price on it. In unincorporated LA County, missing the registry date adds a 10% penalty on top of the fee.
Source: DCBA Rent Registry Verified August 9, 2026
We are not fully confident in this number. DCBA publishes the 10% but does not publish what it is charged on, or whether it repeats. Treat it as the floor of the cost of being late, not the whole of it.
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