Pomona, CA Rental Inspections: Tenant Complaint Process (2026)

5, the state law stripping certain state income-tax benefits from owners of noncompliant rental property. A building is 'substandard' under Sec. 74-253 when it is used for rental housing, the owner has taken a state tax deduction for interest, taxes, depreciation or amortization on it, and it violates state or city health, safety or building law without being brought into compliance within six months of a code-compliance notice. Once a building is reported as substandard, Sec. 74-254 requires the building official to examine it and, if the violations are confirmed, mail the owner a certified notice describing the violations and warning that failure to correct them within six months could cost the owner the California income-tax exemption for the building; the building official may extend that six-month deadline for a good-faith compliance effort.

If the owner still has not complied when the period runs out, Sec. 74-255 requires a notice of noncompliance, again by certified mail, telling the owner the city intends to notify the Franchise Tax Board within ten days unless an appeal is filed. Sec. 74-256 gives the owner ten days from service of that notice to file a written appeal with the building official, heard the same way as a dangerous-building abatement appeal under Sections 74-183 through 74-191. Exemptions exist under Sec. 74-257 for damage from earthquake, flood or other natural disaster within three years, for owners who have secured financing and started repairs, and for owners denied financing solely because of the building's location. Sec. 74-258 further requires an owner to notify the city immediately upon selling or transferring any noncompliant property.