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West Hollywood registration fee and date
West Hollywood's annual rental registration fee is $144.00 per unit per year, due July 1. The city lets $6.00 per unit per month of it be passed through to the tenant, and being registered with the fees paid is what makes the Annual General Adjustment yours to take.
Source: City of West Hollywood: Rent Stabilization Verified August 9, 2026
The figures behind this
"Landlords pay an annual rent registration fee of $144 per unit to the City for the administration of the Ordinance", read on the city's own live pages. It is due July 1; a late fee can be assessed on payments made after July 15.
Source: City of West Hollywood: Rent Stabilization Verified August 9, 2026
"A landlord may pass-through one-half of the monthly prorated annual registration fee (currently $6.00 per month)." It is separate from the Maximum Allowable Rent: take any pass-through you are already charging back out before you work the annual increase, then add the $6.00 on afterwards. It may not be demanded for periods in which you did not pay the fee, may not be charged retroactively, and may not be charged in a lump sum; if you have not been charging it, the tenant gets 30 days' written notice first. There is no pass-through on a Section 8 unit.
Source: West Hollywood: Annual Increases in the Maximum Allowable Rent Verified August 9, 2026
"Units that are occupied by Section 8 tenants are charged $60, only if the Special 8 re-registration form was accepted by the City." There is no tenant pass-through on a Section 8 unit.
Source: West Hollywood: New Landlords / Landlord FAQs (page removed from weho.org; archived 2026-03-14) Verified August 9, 2026
We are not fully confident in this number. The $144 standard fee is on the city's live pages; this Section 8 rate is not. The city's New Landlords page that carried it has since been removed from weho.org. We read it in an archived snapshot taken March 14, 2026, and can no longer confirm it against a live page. Call the Rent Stabilization Division before relying on it.
The city lets a landlord take the annual general adjustment only if they complied with initial registration, re-registered the unit after a vacancy (for tenants who moved in from 1996 onward), paid all annual rent registration fees, and it has been twelve months since move-in or since the last adjustment. "The landlord must give the tenants proper written notice in accordance with current State law." The AGA is announced before July 1, notices may start August 1, and it runs September 1 through August 31.
Source: West Hollywood: Annual Increases in the Maximum Allowable Rent Verified August 9, 2026
What to do
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July 1
West Hollywood annual registration fee due
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
What we do not hold
- 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.
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