Tustin has no host-presence rule because it allows no short-term rentals — hosted or unhosted. There is no 'host must be on-site' condition and no unhosted-night allowance, since the City prohibits all sub-30-day residential rentals regardless of whether the owner is present.
Host-presence rules (requiring the operator to be on-site during stays) only exist in cities that license hosted STRs. Tustin licenses none. Its official FAQ states that short-term rentals are prohibited and any residential rental under 30 days is a hotel/motel use barred in residential districts. Consequently there is no requirement that a host occupy the dwelling, no cap on unhosted nights, and no distinction between hosted home-sharing and a whole-home rental — because none of these arrangements is permitted. In a city like San Leandro the host must occupy the home for the entire stay; in Tustin that framework simply does not apply, since even a fully hosted under-30-day rental is prohibited. The practical takeaway is that an owner cannot make a short-term rental lawful by being present during guests' stays. The only path to a legal residential rental is a term of 30 calendar days or more, at which point it is an ordinary long-term tenancy and the owner's presence or absence is irrelevant to its legality. Owners evaluating home-sharing platforms should treat any sub-30-day arrangement — supervised or not — as outside the bounds of Tustin's code.
Because no hosted-STR category exists, host presence does not create any compliance path. A sub-30-day residential rental is a prohibited use whether or not the owner is on-site, and is enforced by Code Enforcement under the City's zoning authority with administrative citations and possible nuisance abatement. There is no penalty distinction between hosted and unhosted operation.
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