Ziprent handles leasing, tenant screening, rent collection, maintenance coordination and statutory deposit accounting for Cerritos owners — one flat monthly fee per property.
Most Southern California cities license short-term rentals and tax them. Cerritos prohibits them. Cerritos Municipal Code 22.40.260 states that its purpose “is to prohibit all short-term rentals, in any residential zone, including but not limited to vacation rentals and home sharing activities,” and subsection (2) is unambiguous: “Short-term rentals, including, but not limited to, vacation rentals and home sharing are prohibited in all residential zones.
No permit or any other applicable license or entitlement for use, including the issuance of a business license, shall be approved or issued for the operation of a short-term rental in any residential zone throughout the city.” Subsection (4) declares any violation a public nuisance and lets the city attorney pursue a civil action, administrative or judicial nuisance abatement, code enforcement proceedings, or injunctive relief. The section was adopted by Ordinance 1005 section 3 in 2016. Separately, CMC 22.40.250 permits boarding houses only in listed zones, only with a boarding house permit renewed annually, only where the owner lives on site throughout the tenancy, and only up to two boarders, with an inspection before the permit issues. In Cerritos, the long-term lease is the business model.
Cerritos is overwhelmingly single-family and condominium stock, so most owners here assume they are outside AB 1482. Many of them are wrong, because the exemption is conditional on paperwork. Civil Code 1947.12(d)(5) exempts a separately alienable single-family home or condo only where the owner is not a real estate investment trust, a corporation, or an LLC with at least one corporate member — and only where the owner has given the tenant the statutory notice, word for word: “This property is not subject to the rent limits imposed by Section 1947.12 of the Civil Code and is not subject to the just cause requirements of Section 1946.2 of the Civil Code.
This property meets the requirements of Sections 1947.12 (d)(5) and 1946.2 (e)(8) of the Civil Code and the owner is not any of the following: (1) a real estate investment trust, as defined by Section 856 of the Internal Revenue Code; (2) a corporation; or (3) a limited liability company in which at least one member is a corporation.” For any tenancy beginning or renewed on or after 1 July 2020, that language has to sit in the rental agreement itself. Leave it out and the property is treated as covered: your increase is capped at 8.7% for Los Angeles County from 1 August 2026, and just cause applies at twelve months.
| Area | Typical rental stock | What owners ask about there |
|---|---|---|
| Cerritos Towne Center area | Condominiums and townhomes near the civic center and library | Whether the AB 1482 exemption notice was ever put in the lease |
| Heritage Park neighborhoods | 1970s detached tract homes on quiet interior streets | Legal bedroom counts and whether a converted garage qualifies |
| North Cerritos (Artesia / Norwalk side) | Older detached homes and some duplexes | HOA rules and the citywide short-term rental prohibition |
| Southwest Cerritos (toward Lakewood) | Detached tract homes, 1960s–1970s | Sewer scope and roof age before a first lease-up |
| Around Los Cerritos Center (South Street) | Condominiums and attached homes | Parking allocation and guest parking enforcement |
| Cerritos High / Whitney High attendance areas | Larger detached family homes | School-year lease timing and whether the 8.7% cap applies |
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Cerritos 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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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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