Menifee, CA Rental Property Rules: Rent Control (2026)
Rent control rules in Menifee, CA, also known as rent stabilization or rent cap ordinances, limit annual rent increases and protect tenants from displacement.
Key Facts
- Coverage
- Mobile home park spaces only
- Annual increase cap
- Lower of 100% CPI or 5%
- Registration fee
- $12 per space per year
- Base year
- 1991
- Adjustment petition deposit
- $1 per space
- Overcharge remedy
- Misdemeanor plus triple damages
Summary
Menifee's rent control applies only to mobile home park spaces, not apartments or houses. Chapter 5.80 caps space-rent hikes at the lower of 100% of CPI or 5% per year, replacing the Riverside County ordinance the city inherited at incorporation.
The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all mobile home parks located within the city unless otherwise exempt from the provisions of this chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to supersede any provision of the Cal. Civil Code §§ 798 et seq., and as it may be amended. ... The permissive annual increase shall be equal to 100% of CPI, or 5% of the space rent for the previous 12-month period, whichever is lower. In the event an applicable state law becomes effective which requires a lower or higher permissive annual increase, the state law requirement will prevail.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-15: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through Ordinance 2026-432, passed 4-15-2026).
Full Breakdown
80, adopted by Ord. 2023-366, repeals the county ordinance the city adopted at its 2008 incorporation and replaces it with local mobile home space-rent rules. 020, the chapter reaches only mobile home parks in the city and does not override the state Mobile Home Residency Law, Cal. Civil Code §§ 798 et seq. 7, non-primary-residence mobile homes not leased out, and any rent action two-thirds of affected tenants approve in writing. 060 and pay a $12 per-space fee to cover administration. 040's definitions. 090 lets an owner petition the City Manager for an adjusted space rent increase above that cap by showing a preponderance of evidence that it is necessary for a fair return, backed by a $1-per-space processing deposit; a hearing officer appointed by the City Manager decides the petition, presuming the base year's net operating income was a fair return unless the owner rebuts it.
070 let an owner reset rent to market when a space is voluntarily vacated or repossessed, but cap the increase to a sold-in-place mobile home at the average of the three highest comparable rents in the park.
Violations & Fines
Willfully charging space rent above what Chapter 5.80 or a hearing officer allows is a misdemeanor under § 5.80.130(A). Tenants may separately sue for triple the amount overcharged plus attorney's fees under § 5.80.130(B), though they carry the burden of proving entitlement. The hearing officer, the Director, the city, or either party may also seek a court order enforcing the chapter or enjoining a violation under § 5.80.130(C). Any advance tenant waiver of Chapter 5.80 rights is void as against public policy under § 5.80.140.
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