Ziprent handles leasing, tenant screening, rent collection, maintenance coordination and statutory deposit accounting for Altadena owners — one flat monthly fee per property.
Altadena is unincorporated, so the operative law is the Los Angeles County Code, Chapters 8.52 and 8.57. Almost every rental door here has to be entered in the County’s Rent Registry each year, with fees due by 30 September: $90 per fully covered unit, $30 per partially covered unit, and $90 per mobilehome space.
Most Altadena stock is single-family houses and condominiums, and the County classifies those as partially covered — just-cause eviction protection, no county rent cap. Fully covered means two or more units on one parcel with a certificate of occupancy issued on or before 1 February 1995; those carry a county rent ceiling of 1.919% for the year running 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027. Miss the registration and you may not raise rent or pass through costs until you are current.
AB 2801 rewrote Civil Code section 1950.5 and took full effect on 1 July 2025. You now have to photograph the unit before the tenant takes occupancy, photograph it again once they have moved out, and photograph the work after any repair or cleaning you intend to charge against the deposit. The itemized statement has to identify the problem, state the cost, and carry the before-and-after images.
You must also tell the tenant in writing that they may request a pre-move-out inspection and attend it. Where a court finds bad-faith retention, exposure is up to twice the security deposit on top of actual damages, plus fees. Separately, AB 1482 caps a covered Altadena increase at 8.7% for Los Angeles County between 1 August 2026 and 31 July 2027 — well above the 1.919% county ceiling that applies to fully covered units, so establish which regime your door sits in before you serve anything.
| Area | Typical rental stock | What owners ask about there |
|---|---|---|
| Janes Village (west Altadena) | 1920s–1930s English cottage and storybook homes, some with rear units | Whether a rebuilt or repaired house is registered as partially or fully covered with the County |
| President Streets (central) | Mid-century homes on tree-lined streets, occasional duplexes | Just-cause obligations on a house that has never been rented before |
| Altadena Country Club area (east) | Larger Spanish, traditional and ranch houses on bigger lots | Whether the 8.7% AB 1482 cap or the county ceiling governs the next increase |
| Rubio Canyon (east edge) | Craftsman and mid-century houses backing onto canyon | Access, brush clearance obligations and insurance conditions before a lease-up |
| The Meadows (northwest) | Semi-rural foothill houses, eclectic stock, mountain views | Long-vacancy management and utility standby during a rebuild |
| La Viña (northwest, gated) | Late-1990s to 2000s detached homes inside a gated HOA | HOA leasing restrictions and minimum lease terms alongside the county registry |
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2019
Year Founded
4,282
Units Managed
596
Cities Served
9,239
Tenant Placements
189,861
On-Demand Showings
537.4M
Rent Processed
43,438
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60,245
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We believe in transparent and flat fee pricing. Don’t let other property managers fool you into thinking they need to take a percentage of your income. Keep your money where it belongs, in your pocket.
Tenant Placement
$1500
Due at lease signing and security deposit receipt. No cost to get started!
Paid when we sign a lease. 100% satisfaction guaranteed!
Property Management
$150/month
Per property. No percentage nonsense.
$100 / month standard management for every additional property added.
$1500 for tenant placement if you need it. $250 per lease renewal.
ZipGuarantee
$250/month
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$100 / month standard management for every additional property added.
Unlimited tenant placement and lease renewals.
Altadena Property Management
Ziprent is an all-in-one customer service platform that helps you balance everything your customers need to be happy.
Our payment processor issues an ACH direct from tenant to landlord, ensuring the fastest transmittance of rent in the industry. We believe in removing delays and barriers.
We provide tenants the ability to submit maintenance requests online. From there, we gather quotes from our network of qualified experts and coordinate the repair as quickly as possible.
Our customer support team is available 24/7 for you or your tenants. Whatever the issue, rest assured it will be handled with great detail and efficiency..
At any point in time, we will refund up to 3 months of property management fees if you are not satisfied with our services.
Class leading tenant placement service with an average time of 12 days to place a qualified tenant.
Coordinating schedules with prospective tenants is a thing of the past! With Ziprent, prospective tenants can select a time that works for them, and we will send them a unique code to open up a lockbox and view the property.
Our extensive partnership with income, credit, and background data providers ensures near-instant verification of tenant qualifications with the industry’s highest confidence level. In addition, our ZipScore tenant scoring system makes it easy for you to vet and approve prospective tenants.
You are in control. Specify custom lease parameters for your property and setting while having our system generate a comprehensive city, county, and state specific lease that protects you and your property. It is as easy as that.
We’ve partnered with over 20 listing sites, such as Zillow, Trulia, Hotpads, Zumper, Redfin, and Realtor.com, ensuring that your property receives the highest industry-wide exposure!
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Altadena FAQ
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Our current average time is 14-21 days but depending on price and location it can be anywhere between 3-20 days in general.
Tenants will submit their request via their online account. Our platform will automatically send out bid requests from our extensive vendor network. We will surface the bid to you for your approval and then coordinate with the vendor and tenant to get the issue resolved.
To date we have done on-demand without any major issues. We carry an additional $50k in liability insurance to cover any damages, beyond your coverage, that may occur. Should a key go missing, we will have the locks rekeyed at our cost.
Depends on the location of the property. But at the very least, it needs to be free of clutter and trash, it needs to have been professionally cleaned or cleaned to that quality. Flooring and paint go a long way in making a rental feel refreshed.
We can usually schedule to come out to take photos, do a walk-through and take keys within 24-48 hours. We prefer to take photos when the property is completely empty and move-in ready and can generally get a listing online within 24-48 hours of taking photos.
IOur property management contract can be used for both tenant placement and property management. Our property management fee is tied together with rent collection, so if we aren’t collecting rent through our platform then we aren’t charging our property management fee.
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