About Short Stay in LA

We built Short Stay in LA because the owner side was broken.

Most property management in Los Angeles treats the owner as the product. Long contracts, opaque statements, percentages stacked on percentages, and the constant risk of an accidental code violation that costs more than a year of bookings.

We started Short Stay in LA to flip that. The owner comes first. The home stays legal. The payout is on time and the statement explains itself. The fee is a single percentage, posted on the homepage, and that is the entire price.

We focus on furnished rentals of any length because that is what LA actually allows. Short-term nightly bookings are restricted in most of the city and banned outright in Beverly Hills, but mid-term and corporate stays are open and underserved. For most LA homes, the legal path is also the more profitable path.

We are local. We operate from Beverly Hills. We do not white-label our service to a national platform. Every owner deals with us directly, every home is walked before it goes live, and every monthly statement is signed off internally.

The team

Nora Mihailovic

Founder, Operations and Owner Relationships

Nora leads owner relationships, property onboarding, and day-to-day operations across the Short Stay in LA portfolio. She built her career around hospitality and high-end residential service in Los Angeles, where she learned that the difference between a property that earns and one that sits is rarely the listing. It is the operating discipline behind it. She personally walks every new home before it goes live, and every owner has her direct line.

nora@shortstayinla.com

Compliance you can verify

We do not improvise on the legal side. Every home gets mapped to its specific jurisdiction before it goes live. Here is the regulatory picture we work inside, as of 2026.

City of Los Angeles: Home-Sharing Ordinance (HSO): 120-night annual cap, primary residence only, registration required. Mid-term stays of 30+ days are exempt.
Beverly Hills: Short-term rentals under 31 days are banned. The only legal furnished-rental category is extended stays of 31 days or more.
Santa Monica: Vacation rentals under 30 days are banned outside of home-sharing with a permit. Hosted stays require an RBOA permit and a 14% TOT.
Malibu: Falls under LA County unincorporated rules for most of the area. STR permit required from LA County DCBA, with a 12% TOT on stays under 30 days.
Pasadena: Permit required, 180-day annual cap for non-hosted rentals, mandatory TOT registration.
Long Beach: STR registration plus TOT collection required. Non-primary-residence STRs capped at 90 nights per year. 30+ day stays exempt.
Penalty exposure: Unpermitted short-term rentals in LA can incur penalties of up to $2,060 per day per violation. Compliance is not optional.

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