Rental Inspections in California (2026)

Berkeley's Rental Housing Safety Program requires every owner of rental units to self-certify annually, by July 1st…

Chico designates systematic housing code enforcement areas #1 and #2 where the building division may proactively…

Rental dwelling units in unincorporated Contra Costa County are subject to periodic inspection by the county building…

Davis registers and inspects single-family rental units under Municipal Code Article 18.11. The city triggers…

Under the Rental Housing Improvement Act, Fresno's City Attorney inspects a randomly selected percentage of units at…

Hayward runs a citywide mandatory inspection program for rental units, hotels and motels, prioritized by the age and…

Hesperia can inspect any residential rental property for code compliance under its Chapter 5.72 rental housing business…

Indio's Residential Rental Inspection Program requires landlords to register rental properties, undergo periodic…

Lancaster requires every residential rental property to pass a city inspection and hold a current certificate of rental…

Under Long Beach Municipal Code § 18.30.120, City inspectors periodically check PRHIP-registered rental properties…

Section 8.53.105.B commits the County Housing Program Chief to a routine habitability inspection of every covered…

Moreno Valley requires multifamily rental properties that draw 10 or more police calls in 90 days, or…

Mountain View runs a mandatory hotel, motel, and multi-family housing inspection program under Secs. 25.55-25.56…

Owners of formerly foreclosed, non-owner-occupied 1-to-4-unit properties must register with Oakland within 90 days of…

Every residential rental unit in Palmdale must register with the Building Official within 60 days of the owner…

Pasadena requires every multifamily residential property of three or more units, plus boarding and rooming houses, to…

Perris's building official may order an inspection of any structure suspected of being dangerous or substandard purely…

Rancho Cordova periodically inspects residential rental property for housing code compliance under its Rental Housing…

Rialto requires every rental dwelling unit, motel, hotel and lodging house to hold a valid biennial inspection…

Riverside does not operate a proactive city-wide rental inspection program. Rental habitability is enforced on a…

Sacramento built Chapter 8.120 around a deliberately proactive model: rather than waiting on tenant complaints, Section…

Rental units hit with two violation notices in 12 months become a "problem property" under Sacramento County's Housing…

San Bernardino requires every single-family rental property in the city to undergo a periodic inspection by the…

Crime Free Multi-Housing Certification requires an inspection of rental units before certification for high…

San Jose requires an annual Residential Occupancy Permit for apartment houses, guesthouses, motels, hotels and licensed…

Every San Rafael apartment building and hotel gets a code enforcement inspection at least once every five years…

Santa Ana inspects every residential rental property at least once every four years under the Proactive Rental…

Santa Barbara County's Isla Vista Rental Housing Inspection Pilot Program, adopted by Ordinance No. 5270 on November…

Every residential rental unit in Stockton gets a Code Enforcement inspection at least once every four years under…

Victorville inspects every residential rental property before its Rental Business License issues and again every year…

The City of Antioch physically inspects every registered rental dwelling unit under AMC § 5-20.401 to check for…

Apple Valley requires the Town to inspect every rental housing unit before issuing the annual property maintenance…

Brentwood inspects the exterior of every rental property at least once every two years under Section 8.44.040, part of…

Buena Park runs a proactive Rental Housing Inspection Program, sending inspectors into city-designated target areas at…

The Systematic Code Enforcement Program (SCEP), created in 1998, provides routine inspections of all residential…

Unincorporated Riverside County inspects short-term rental properties before certification and again anytime code…

Roseville's chief building inspector can inspect rental units that trip specific numeric triggers under the city's…

County Environmental Health Services inspects every apartment house, hotel, and motel in unincorporated San Bernardino…

San Francisco requires the Department of Building Inspection to inspect every apartment house and hotel for health and…

The county's enforcement agency administers, inspects and enforces housing and nuisance abatement rules, with the Fire…

Thousand Oaks does not inspect every rental annually. Instead, an owner who twice ignores a Code Compliance Officer's…

West Sacramento funds a self-supporting rental housing code enforcement program through a fee on rental property owners.

Anaheim does not operate a citywide proactive rental inspection program. Rental properties are inspected on a…

Elk Grove has no routine, proactive rental inspection program. The City Council found in the Housing Code's own purpose…

Salinas runs a residential rental registration program, not a physical inspection program. Municipal Code Sec…

San Diego County's Department of Environmental Health and Quality can condemn a rental in the unincorporated area or…

Tenants in unincorporated Alameda County can request county-arranged mediation within 45 days of giving a landlord…

When a tenant or neighbor reports a problem, Antioch's Community Development Director can inspect a rental dwelling…

A Baldwin Park tenant who believes a landlord charged rent above the legal ceiling can skip court and file an…

Brentwood's rental inspections are proactive, not complaint-driven, but Sections 8.44.050 through 8.44.080 spell out…

A Buena Park rental unit that passes three straight annual target-area inspections is exempt from further inspection…

A Davis tenant who reports code violations or a health and safety risk at a single-family rental triggers a city…

Fresno County's Code Enforcement Division investigates substandard housing and dangerous building complaints under…

A Hayward tenant's complaint about a code violation is an official trigger for inspection under the Residential Rental…

A tenant who files a habitability complaint with Lancaster triggers an inspection by the city's code enforcement…

A Los Angeles tenant who loses elevator, security-gate, or air-conditioning service, or suffers any Civil Code § 1941.1…

Tenants in unincorporated Los Angeles County rental properties with two or more units can file a habitability complaint…

Madera Municipal Code § 4-16.11(C) makes clear that the city's phased rollout of its Rental Housing Inspection Program…

Monterey funds a dedicated landlord/tenant hotline, email line and referrals to mediation and legal services through…

Under Monterey County Code § 18.15.020, the Building Official and Health Officer, jointly the Enforcement Official…

A tenant who believes an Oakland rent increase is improper, or that the owner cut housing services or skipped a…

Oceanside's health officer can enter a building to investigate unsanitary conditions and, if plumbing or a sewage…

Oxnard's Tenant Protection and Rent Stabilization ordinance makes it illegal for an owner to retaliate against a tenant…

Tenants and others can trigger a Palmdale rental inspection just by filing a complaint. Under Municipal Code Section…

When Pasadena's enforcement officer receives a report that a building is substandard, Section 14.12.100 requires an…

Anyone can file a verified complaint with Perris's building division, and if it shows probable cause the structure is…

A complaint counts as an "enforcement action" under Petaluma's code enforcement ordinance. It lets a code enforcement…

When a Pomona rental building is reported as substandard, the building official inspects it and, if health, safety or…

Rancho Cordova tenants can ask the city to inspect their individual rental unit for compliance with state and local…

Rialto lets tenants request a rental-unit inspection anytime, separate from the city's mandatory biennial checks. Code…

A Roseville tenant can trigger a city inspection of their rental unit by filing a complaint about substandard…

Sacramento does not run a tenant-complaint hotline for rental conditions: instead every rental unit falls under a…

A tenant or anyone else can trigger a county rental inspection just by filing a complaint about code violations…

San Bernardino code enforcement can inspect any rental property at any time in response to a complaint alleging code…

San Francisco Housing Code Sec. 303(a) lets the Dept. of Building Inspection enter and inspect a unit whenever it…

When a tenant complains that a rental unit isn't meeting San Marcos's Housing Code, Municipal Code Section 17.24.020…

San Rafael tenants can trigger a rental inspection any time by filing a code violation complaint: the city doesn't have…

Beyond routine sweeps, the Santa Barbara County Planning and Development Department will inspect an Isla Vista rental…

Stockton gives tenants and landlords advance notice before a rental inspection and a court-backed path if access is…

When someone reports a suspected substandard housing nuisance on unincorporated Tulare County property, the Resource…

Victorville can inspect a residential rental property any time a complaint alleges a code violation, independent of the…

Tenants and neighbors can trigger a City of West Sacramento inspection of a rental unit for suspected Nuisance…

A tenant starts Elk Grove Housing Code enforcement by lodging a 'Complaint' with the Code Enforcement Division. If the…

Indio's Rental Inspection Program confirms that inspections triggered by a tenant's complaint under state law are…

Mountain View bars landlords from evicting or retaliating against any tenant, single-family renter, or hotel or motel…

Salinas routes tenant complaints through the community development director's referral and dispute-resolution services…

Tenants in Anaheim can file habitability complaints with Code Enforcement at (714) 765-5158 or online through the…