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When we get a number wrong

One bad number can cost you more than this costs. So here is what we promise, and everything we have got wrong. Last updated August 7, 2026.

What we promise

  1. Every number we display carries the document it came from, a link to that document, and the date we last checked it. If a number has no citation, we do not publish it.
  2. When we find a number we published was wrong, we fix it the same day we learn about it, log the correction below with the old value and the new one, and email every subscriber whose properties were affected. We do not quietly edit and move on.
  3. If a number is thin — one source, or read through a workaround because the agency's website blocks ordinary access — we say so at the point where the number appears, not in a footnote.
  4. We re-check every rate table at least once per quarter and always within a week of a known rate-change date (July 1, August 1, September 1, October 1, January 1).

Think one of our numbers is wrong? Tell us at support@goodstanding.la. Send the figure and where you saw it. We would rather be corrected than be confidently wrong.

Numbers we are not sure about

Anyone can publish a table. Publishing the shaky parts is the harder half, and it is what makes the rest mean anything.

  • 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.
  • LA City RSO: 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.
  • LA City RSO: 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.
  • 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.
  • LA County RSTPO: 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.
  • LA County RSTPO: 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.
  • LA County RSTPO: 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.
  • 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.
  • Santa Monica: 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.
  • Santa Monica: 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.
  • 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.
  • West Hollywood: 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.
  • West Hollywood: 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.
  • West Hollywood: 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: 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.
  • 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.
  • Pasadena: 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.
  • Pasadena: 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.
  • Pasadena: 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.
  • 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.
  • AB 1482: 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.
  • AB 1482: 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.
  • Likely exempt: "Likely exempt" is the one verdict we are least able to prove. Exemptions depend on ownership structure, the notices you gave, and whether a city ordinance we have not mapped applies. Confirm with your city before you act on it.

Change log

  1. August 7, 2026 · initial

    First published rate tables

    LA City RSO, LA County RSTPO, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Pasadena and AB 1482 tables compiled from primary sources and published with per-number citations and verified dates.

  2. August 7, 2026 · correction of others

    West Hollywood cap: 3%, not 4%

    Rate-aggregator sites publish a 4.0% cap for West Hollywood. The city's own Annual General Adjustment staff report states a 3% hard cap under WHMC §17.36.020. Our table uses 3%.

  3. August 7, 2026 · correction of others

    LA City deposit interest is 3.03% for 2026

    The 4.32% figure that is still widely republished is the 2025 calendar-year rate. LAHD Bulletin #44 was revised 01/13/2026 with 3.03% for 2026.

  4. August 7, 2026 · correction of others

    AB 1482 for the LA region is 8.7% from August 1, 2026

    8.0% was the cap for August 2025 through July 2026. No government page publishes the finished percentage, so stale figures persist. We recomputed 8.7% from the raw BLS CPI-U series for Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim.

  5. August 7, 2026 · open gap

    Three numbers we are not fully confident in

    West Hollywood's deposit-interest rate (single source, read through a text proxy because weho.org refuses ordinary requests), West Hollywood's registration fee (verified through an archived snapshot from November 2025), and Pasadena deposit interest (no official page located either way). All three are flagged wherever they appear.

  6. August 8, 2026 · gap closed

    All three of those numbers are now read from the cities' own live pages

    West Hollywood's rent stabilization page states the 4.3% security-deposit interest rate and the $144 registration fee outright, so both flags are gone. Pasadena does require deposit interest: Charter §1806(f), through PRHB Regulations Chapter 10, sets 0.12% for 2026 and for 2025, payable by January 31 for the prior year. Pasadena's $236.54 registry fee, its September 1 to October 31 window and its late tiers were re-verified the same day.

  7. August 8, 2026 · correction of others

    West Hollywood deposit interest is not payable by rent credit

    Guides describe the West Hollywood rent deduction as a way for a landlord to settle deposit interest. It is the opposite: it is the tenant's remedy when the landlord has not paid, available from February 1. Pay the interest by January 31.

  8. August 8, 2026 · new data

    The rules that decide whether an increase is yours to take

    LA County §8.52.050 makes an annual increase lawful only once the unit is registered, the fees are paid and the owner is in compliance, allows one increase per 12 months, and waives any increase you skip for the rest of the tenancy. Santa Monica, West Hollywood and Pasadena all gate their adjustment on registration and compliance too. The LA City annual RSO/JCO/SCEP bill is due in January and delinquent after the last day of February, at roughly double the fee. All now carry dates and citations in our tables.

  9. August 8, 2026 · new data

    Every regime now carries a notice period, not just two of them

    The calculators only knew LA City's 30/90 days and Santa Monica's 30, and said so wherever the others should have been. LA County Code §8.52.050.A requires thirty days' written notice given pursuant to Civil Code §827. Pasadena's PRHB Regulations Chapter 7 §F.4 and West Hollywood's annual-adjustment page both point at state law rather than setting a period, which makes it §827(b) as well — thirty days at 10% or less, ninety above it, and five calendar days more when the notice is served by mail under Code of Civil Procedure §1013(a). Every local cap is far under 10%, so thirty days is the operative answer everywhere except a rental with no cap at all, where both tiers are stated.

  10. August 8, 2026 · new data

    A postmark is not a payment in LA City

    LAHD does not accept the postmark date as an indicator of a timely payment on the annual RSO/JCO/SCEP bill — the money has to be received by the due date — and recommends mailing at least 10 days ahead. The fee reminder now says so, because a check posted on the last day of February is a delinquent payment at roughly double the fee.

  11. August 9, 2026 · correction

    The county's rent cap does not reach every rental in the unincorporated county

    We were quoting the LA County RSTPO cap — 1.919% — at every property in an unincorporated area. County Code §8.52.050 is titled "Permitted Rent Increases for Fully Covered Rental Units", and §8.52.030 makes a unit fully covered only if it is one of two or more dwelling units permitted on or before February 1, 1995, or a mobilehome in a park offered for rent by its owner. A single-family house, a condominium, a stock cooperative, or anything permitted after that date is a Partially Covered Rental Unit: it keeps the ordinance's eviction protections and its September 30 registry filing, and has no county rent cap at all. Those properties now fall through to AB 1482 or to an exemption, exactly as a non-RSO rental in the City of Los Angeles already did. We read the certificate-of-occupancy test off the year the building was built, because that is the fact an owner holds, and every verdict that rests on it says so.