Can You Rent Out Your Inglewood House on Airbnb for the Super Bowl? What the City Actually Allows

For Owners · Inglewood · September 2026 · 8 min read

Every time a big date gets announced at SoFi Stadium, the same question shows up in our inbox. Super Bowl LXI is set for February 14, 2027. The 2028 Olympics will open at SoFi and hold the swimming there. An owner with a three-bedroom in Morningside Park or a duplex off Manchester does the math on a few nights at stadium prices and asks: can I list it?

For most rental owners, the answer is no, and it is worth understanding why before you buy furniture. Inglewood wrote its short-term rental rules around residents renting out their own homes, not around investment property. The rules are in Chapter 8, Article 11 of the Inglewood Municipal Code, adopted as Ordinance 22-15 in July 2022. Here is what they say, in plain terms, and what an owner who does not qualify can do instead.

What counts as a short-term rental in Inglewood

Any stay of thirty consecutive days or less. The code treats a two-night Super Bowl booking and a three-week corporate stay the same way. Section 8-138 says no one may rent, offer to rent, or even advertise a unit for a stay that short without a permit from the city. Advertising without a permit is itself a violation, so a listing that goes live “just to test the market” already counts.

The city issues two kinds of permits. A hosted permit lets you rent a room while you stay in the home, with no cap on nights per year. An unhosted permit lets you rent the whole unit while you are away, for a maximum of ninety nights per calendar year, and each booking has to be thirty days or less. Both are tied to one specific dwelling, last one year, and cannot be transferred or assigned.

Who can get a permit

This is where most owners drop out. Under Section 8-139, the host must be the owner of the unit and must have lived in it for at least the last 365 consecutive days before applying. The code’s definition of “owner” specifically excludes anyone whose interest is only as a tenant or subtenant, so a renter cannot get a permit for the place they lease, and neither can you as the landlord of a home you do not live in.

There is a narrow path for a second property, which the code calls a vacation rental. To qualify, an owner has to have been an Inglewood resident for at least ten consecutive years, have owned their current primary residence for at least five, have owned the rental for at least a year, and the rental has to sit within 1,000 feet of the home they live in. If the rental is a multi-unit property, the owner has to occupy one of the units. In practice this covers a long-time resident renting out the back house or the other half of the duplex. It does not cover an owner in Torrance or Orange County with a rental near the stadium.

Eligible property types are single-family homes and condos owned by an individual rather than a company, two-unit properties where the owner lives in one unit, and two-to-four-unit properties where the owner’s primary residence is established on site. Buildings with five or more units are not on the list at all.

Several units are excluded outright, whoever owns them:

• Accessory dwelling units permitted on or after January 1, 2017. A newer ADU in the backyard cannot be an Airbnb.
• Any unit with an affordable housing covenant or income restriction under city, state, or federal programs.
• Unpermitted units of any kind, and the code names tents, RVs, and trailers.
• Any property with an open code violation or an active construction permit, for as long as either is open.

What the permit requires once you have it

Owners who do qualify, usually a homeowner leaving town for a weekend, should know the operating rules before they book anyone. These come from Sections 8-139 and 8-141 and from the city’s tax code:

• The city-issued registration number has to appear on every advertisement, and the application asks for the URL of every listing.
• Inglewood’s transient occupancy tax is 15.5% of the rent charged (Section 9-56). Hosts collect it, and the permit is only valid while you hold a short-term rental business tax certificate.
• Liability insurance of at least $500,000 covering the rental.
• A local contact person at least 25 years old who is reachable 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and can respond to a complaint within sixty minutes.
• No more than four people per room, and no more than two adults per room. No party rentals of any kind.
• One guest vehicle on the street per booking. Guests get written notice of trash day, quiet hours, and the city’s noise rules before they arrive.
• One booking at a time. A permit does not allow simultaneous rentals under the same roof.
• When you apply, the city mails notice to the owners and occupants of every abutting property and to your HOA if you have one. Your neighbors will know.

Enforcement does not depend on a neighbor calling. Platforms that collect payment in Inglewood are required to remit the tax, send the city monthly disclosures, and take down a listing within five calendar days of being told it is out of compliance. A host who violates the article is subject to administrative fines under Chapter 11 of the code, has to reimburse the city’s investigation costs, and owes back taxes on every night rented.

The 31-day alternative

Article 11 stops at thirty days. A furnished rental for thirty-one days or longer is not a short-term rental under the Inglewood code, so the permit, the ninety-night cap, and the host’s tax-collection duty do not apply to it. For an owner near Hollywood Park, that is usually the realistic way to earn something from the event calendar without breaking the rules.

The demand is real. Production crews and broadcast staff arrive weeks before a Super Bowl and stay through teardown. Crews working on venue upgrades ahead of LA28, traveling nurses at Centinela Hospital, and airport-area project staff all look for furnished places on monthly terms, and Inglewood is closer and cheaper than the Westside.

Two things change once a stay crosses thirty days. First, it is a tenancy under California law. Your guest is a tenant with the standard protections: a written lease, a security deposit that under Civil Code 1950.5 is generally capped at one month’s rent (small owners who qualify may charge up to two), habitability obligations, and proper notice to end or change the arrangement. Second, once anyone has occupied a covered unit for twelve months, Inglewood’s just-cause and relocation rules apply, so a furnished lease that keeps rolling over stops being a flexible arrangement. In a building with two or more units, the tenancy also has to be registered with the city’s Residential Registry within thirty days of move-in, the same as any other lease.

Handled correctly, a furnished 31-day-plus rental is a normal rental with a higher rent and more turnover. Handled casually, it is a normal rental with a tenant you did not screen.

Run the numbers honestly

Before you commit to either path, put real figures next to each other. A Super Bowl weekend is a handful of nights. Against that, an unhosted permit caps you at ninety nights a year, the city takes 15.5% of every booking, and you carry insurance, cleaning, a 24-hour contact, and the vacancy between bookings. A furnished monthly tenant pays less per night and stays longer, with none of the tax and far fewer turnovers. A standard twelve-month lease pays the least per night and asks the least of you. For most owners who do not live at the property, the choice is really between the last two, and the answer depends on how much time you want to spend on it.

Where we come in

Bessa Properties is a California DRE-licensed company, and we manage rental homes and apartment buildings in Inglewood, and we can set up a furnished monthly lease where it makes sense for the property. Either way the lease is written for Inglewood, with a clause that bars the tenant from subletting the unit on any short-term platform, the registry filings get done, and the just-cause timelines are tracked so a furnished arrangement does not turn into a surprise.

If you would rather know your management cost up front, our flat-fee option is one predictable monthly amount per property rather than a percentage of rent. It covers rent collection and maintenance coordination; leasing is billed separately when a unit turns over. Ask us for a quote for your building.

Questions owners ask us about this

I own a house in Inglewood and rent it out. Can I take it back for two weeks and list it on Airbnb during the Super Bowl?

No. The permit requires that you have lived in the unit for the 365 days before you apply, and you would also be interfering with your tenant’s lease. The tenant cannot list it either, since tenants are excluded from the code’s definition of owner. Put a no-subletting clause in the lease and check listing sites near the date.

I live in my Inglewood duplex and rent out the other unit. Can that unit be a short-term rental?

Possibly, under the vacation rental rules, if you have lived in the city ten years, owned your home five years, and owned the property at least a year. You would still need the permit, the tax certificate, insurance, and a 24-hour contact, and you would be limited to ninety nights a year. Confirm your eligibility with the city before you take a deposit.

My tenant is already running an Airbnb out of my unit. What do I do?

That is a lease violation and, on their side, a violation of Section 8-138. Document it with screenshots of the listing, serve a proper notice to cure, and talk to a landlord-tenant attorney before you go further, because Inglewood’s just-cause rules govern how the tenancy can end. Do not turn off utilities or change locks.

Does the 15.5% tax apply to a 45-day furnished rental?

Not under the short-term rental rules. Those rules, including the requirement that hosts collect the tax, cover stays of thirty days or less. A 45-day stay is a tenancy, not lodging. If an arrangement is anywhere near the line, ask the city’s Finance Department before you bill anyone.

If I get a permit for my own home, can I rent it out for the whole Olympic period in 2028?

Only within the limits: ninety unhosted nights per calendar year, each booking thirty days or less, one booking at a time. The Games run a little over two weeks, so the cap is not the obstacle. The residency rule is. You must still be living there as your primary residence when you apply and renew.

Sources and disclaimer. Inglewood Municipal Code Chapter 8, Article 11, Short-Term Rental and Vacation Rental Regulations (Ord. 22-15, July 19, 2022); Chapter 9, Article 8, Transient Occupancy Tax, Section 9-56; SoFi Stadium announcements for Super Bowl LXI and the LA28 ceremonies; California Civil Code Section 1950.5. Current as of September 2026. This article is general information for property owners, not legal or tax advice. Permit eligibility, fees, and enforcement are decided by the City of Inglewood, and the rules change. Confirm your situation with the City of Inglewood and with a California landlord-tenant attorney or CPA before you list a unit or sign a furnished lease.