El Monte is one of the larger cities in the San Gabriel Valley and holds a substantial stock of workforce apartment buildings, much of it built in the post-war decades. The regulatory position here is different from the City of Los Angeles, and for most owners that difference is worth more than any physical feature of the building.
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El Monte is one of the larger cities in the San Gabriel Valley and holds a substantial stock of workforce apartment buildings, much of it built in the post-war decades. The buildings are larger on average than in the sur...
Read the full seller's guide →Living in townOne of the larger San Gabriel Valley cities, holding a substantial stock of workforce apartment buildings built largely in the post-war decades. The buildings run larger on average than in the west-valley cities, which b...
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Read the full FAQ →Owners in El Monte routinely misprice in one direction: they underwrite as though the LA City RSO applies. It does not. El Monte is its own city with no local rent control ordinance, so a covered building runs on AB 1482 at 5% plus CPI — currently 8.7% — against 3% for an equivalent pre-1978 building inside LA City. Over a hold period that is a materially different income trajectory, and it is the single most common reason a building here sells for less than it should. I have no closings in El Monte; the pricing case is built from comparable sales, and I will say so plainly.
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