Inglewood, CA Short-Term Rentals: Host Presence Rule (2026)

Inglewood Municipal Code Article 11 of Chapter 8 splits short-term rentals into two categories with very different rules, and the difference turns entirely on whether the host is physically present. Section 8-137 defines "short-term rental hosted" as a dwelling unit rented in part for which the short-term rental host rents out a room and remains in the dwelling unit during the stay. Section 8-139(3) then removes the annual night limit for that category: hosted rentals may run an unlimited number of nights per calendar year, so long as each booking is thirty consecutive days or less.

That exemption from the night cap does not extend to vacation rentals, which are governed separately under Section 8-140. Every short-term rental, hosted or not, still needs a City-issued short-term rental permit under Section 8-138, and the host must be the owner who has lived at the property for the prior 365 consecutive days under Section 8-139(10). The rental is also capped at four persons per room with no more than two adult guests per room under Section 8-139(8), and it cannot operate on a property with active construction permits or open code violations.

A host who is not present during a stay is, by the Code's own definition, no longer operating a "hosted" rental and falls under the unhosted or vacation rental rules instead, which carry the ninety-night annual limit.