Whittier, CA Rental Property Rules: Rent Increase Notice (2026)
Key Facts
- Minimum notice
- 30 days before a rent increase
- Legal basis
- Civil Code § 798.30, via WMC § 9.20.050(A)
- Rights notice
- Required at signing, renewal, and each increase
- Increase frequency
- One increase per 12-month period
- Adjustment deadline
- 180 days to file with Rent Arbitration Administrator
Summary
Before raising rent on a covered mobilehome space, a Whittier park owner must give at least thirty days' written notice under California Civil Code Section 798.30, and must also hand each mobilehome owner a separate notice of their rights under the city's mobilehome rent stabilization chapter.
A mobilehome park owner may impose an annual rent increase for any mobilehome space, as allowed in this section, only after providing at least thirty days written notice to the mobilehome owner of the rent increase pursuant to the California Civil Code section 798.30. ... Mobilehome park owners must provide to each mobilehome owner, prior to, or at the time of agreeing to rent a mobilehome space, a notice of mobilehome owner's rights under this chapter and a copy of the mobilehome residency law.
Full Breakdown
30. 050(D) limits the park owner to one rent increase per mobilehome owner in any twelve-month period. 095 requires a separate rights notice: the Rent Arbitration Administrator publishes a form describing the mobilehome owner's rights under the chapter and attaches a copy of the state mobilehome residency law, and the park owner must hand it over when signing a rental agreement, when renewing one, and again whenever a rent increase, rent decrease, or reduction in housing services is announced. If the rental agreement itself was negotiated or written in a language other than English, the rights notice must also be provided in that language, and a copy must be posted at the park's on-site management office or another accessible spot on the property.
Violations & Fines
A rent increase imposed without the required Civil Code Section 798.30 notice, or issued while the space's registration fee is unpaid, is unenforceable and void under Sections 9.20.050(B) and 9.20.150(B). A mobilehome owner who is charged an unlawful increase may file an application for adjustment with the Rent Arbitration Administrator within one hundred eighty days of discovering the violation, may withhold the excess amount, and can raise a good-faith withholding as a defense in any eviction action brought over nonpayment, under Section 9.20.060(B).
Frequently Asked Questions
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