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

The City of Redlands does not require a short-term-rental host to be present on-site (a 'hosted'-only model) and does not require a designated 24-hour local contact or property manager, because the City has adopted no short-term-rental ordinance containing such conditions. Cities with STR programs commonly require either that the host occupy the property during guest stays or that the operator name a local responsible party who can be reached around the clock and respond to problems within a fixed number of minutes; Redlands has no such requirement in its Municipal Code. As a result, a Redlands short-term rental may lawfully be operated remotely or as an un-hosted whole-home rental so far as City STR-specific rules are concerned. That said, the absence of a host-presence rule does not exempt the property from generally applicable obligations. The operator remains responsible for compliance with the Community Noise Control chapter (Chapter 8.06), nuisance abatement, parking and zoning rules, and the Transient Occupancy Tax (Chapter 3.24), and remains liable for guests' conduct under nuisance law. On lots created under SB 9, the separate three-year owner-occupancy requirement effectively forces the owner to live on the property, but that is an SB 9 condition - and those lots cannot be short-term rented at all. For ordinary properties, hosts should still consider providing a reachable local contact as a practical matter, since the City's enforcement tools (noise, nuisance) operate against the property and owner regardless of where the host lives.