Ventura, CA Rental Property Rules: Rent Increase Notice (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- Municipal Code § 6.600.070(F)
- Increase cap
- 5% of current base rent per year
- Who calculates
- City rent administrator, not the park owner
- Who gets notice
- Park owner and residents' representative by mail
- Opt-in deadline
- 120 days' written notice to use this method
- Effect of no notice
- Increase cannot lawfully take effect
Summary
Before a mobile home park in the City of Ventura raises a resident's space rent under the annual CPI-based option in Municipal Code Section 6.600.070(F), the city's rent administrator must calculate the allowed increase and mail notice to the park owner and the park's residents' representative first.
On a park’s rent increase anniversary date, the park owner may increase the current base space rent ... adjusted by 100 percent of the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index; ... provided, however, that such increase shall not exceed an amount equal to five percent of the current base rent in effect in that park in the month preceding the month in which the increase provided for in this section becomes effective. Said rent increase shall be calculated by the rent administrator and notice thereof shall be mailed to the owner of that park and to that park’s residents’ representative in sufficient time to enable the park owner to give residents in the park notice, pursuant to state law, of a proposed rent increase which will become effective on that park’s rent increase anniversary date. ... However, no increase provided for in this section shall be charged to go into effect in any park unless that increase was calculated by the rent administrator and notice thereof was given to the park owner as provided in this section.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 2026-008, passed May 12, 2026).
Full Breakdown
600 an alternative to the standard board-review rent increase process: on the park's annual rent increase anniversary date, the owner may raise the current base space rent by 100 percent of the change in the Consumer Price Index, capped at 5 percent of the current base rent for that park. That increase is not self-executing. 090(H)(1), with enough lead time for the owner to then give residents notice of the proposed increase under state law before the anniversary date. Subsection (F)(1) makes clear that no increase provided for in this section can be charged to go into effect in any park unless that increase was calculated by the rent administrator and notice was given to the park owner. 070(F)(2), and cannot claim an increase under both methods for the same period.
Violations & Fines
A rent increase charged without the rent administrator's calculation and mailed notice is not legally in effect under Section 6.600.070(F)(1), leaving the park owner exposed to a tenant challenge or a rent-roll correction. Because Chapter 6.600 has no separate penalty clause, an owner who otherwise violates the chapter falls under the code's general misdemeanor provisions, Sections 1.150.010 and 1.150.020: up to a $1,000 fine, up to six months in jail, or both, with each day a separate offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who has to notify tenants of a mobile home rent increase in Ventura?
Can a mobile home park owner skip the notice and just raise rent?
How far in advance must a park owner opt into the annual CPI increase method?
Is there a hearing before this type of rent increase?
Sources & Official References
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