Did You Receive a Letter From Los Angeles County on Rent Registration? Confused?
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors permanent Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO) applicable to the unincorporated areas of the County went into effect on April 1, 2020. As part of the ordinance requirements, rental housing providers must register their rental units and pay a fee. The annual rental registration fee is $90 per unit for rental units subject to both the County’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO) and Just-Cause provisions (“Fully Covered Units”) and $30 per unit for rental units subject to the County’s Just-Cause provisions but exempt from the County’s RSO (“Just-Cause Only Units”) in the County’s unincorporated areas. In July, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors extended the waiver for payment of the RSO annual registration fee through June 30, 2022, for rental housing providers who register in the County’s Rental Registry System on or before January 1, 2022.
On October 1, 2021, the County’s online rent registry launched. The registry, as instituted, required all property owners to register their property regardless of whether they are rental housing providers. The County’s Department of Consumer and Business Affairs (DCBA) sent out letters to property owners within the County’s unincorporated areas requesting that they register their property on the County’s new Rent Registry. At the November 2nd Board of Supervisors meeting, the Board approved a motion advanced by Supervisor’s Barger and Hahn, which raised concerns about the rent registration’s implementation and requirement that all property owners register their property, including homeowners who are not subject to the County’s RSO. The Board directed that DCBA “immediately rescind any requirements for property owners who reside in their home and do not receive rent for a room or dwelling unit on the same property as specified in the County code to register on the Los Angeles County Rent Registry.”
If you received this letter requiring you to register your property which is your home and not a rental property, or in error for a property located in any incorporated area of Los Angeles County, DCBA is directing that you can disregard the letter or you can go on the DCBA website at https://dcba.lacounty.gov/rentregistry/ and remove your home address from their mailing list. It is important to note that if you received the DCBA letter for other properties to which you are renting out a room or rental unit/units, you are still required to register those properties through the DCBA website rent registry.