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Acme House Company is a DBA of Acme CA, Inc., operating as Casago Greater Palm Springs. California DRE #02420145. Michael E. Flannery, Designated Broker.
Southern California · Palm Springs
Design tourism, canyon mornings and a long hot summer pull guests here in very different ways. Casago's local team runs the pricing, the marketing and the pool-and-cooling care for one home at a time. You keep the calendar.
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The three Ms in Palm Springs
A city-wide average tells you nothing about a restored post-and-beam near downtown or a family house with a big pool further south. Every plan starts with the parcel, the guest the home can honestly serve and what it costs to run through a desert summer.
Management of revenue
Visit Palm Springs notes the city celebrates Modernism Week each February and October, and the fall edition runs October 15–18, 2026. Rates, minimum stays and your own dates are set against that shape and against the home's real demand, with you rather than around you.
Marketing the home
Photography, listing copy and paid media built on what the home actually is: a pool-centred layout, a walkable downtown address, a genuine midcentury frame. Listed across the major channels plus a direct channel.
Maintenance and care
The City's certificate file includes a Pool Certification Form and a Rental Certificate Safety Inspection Form, so pool condition is a compliance item as well as a guest item. Service, heat, water and HVAC checks are scheduled around reservations, with approvals routed to you.
Guest fit
Visit Palm Springs describes a city that supports several trips at once: the Aerial Tramway climbing nearly 6,000 feet into Mt. San Jacinto State Park, Indian Canyons and one of the largest California fan palm oases in the world, Tahquitz Canyon and its seasonal 60-foot waterfall, museums and the Agua Caliente Cultural Plaza, and VillageFest closing Palm Canyon Drive to traffic every Thursday evening.
Neighborhood lenses
The area story has to match the home's actual setting, route, parking and private rules. An area name on its own establishes neither guest fit nor operating eligibility.
Movie Colony
Visit Palm Springs publishes a self-guided walking tour starting from Ruth Hardy Park, past Spanish Colonial Revival estates from the late 1920s and 1930s. Confirm walkability, parking and any association restrictions for the exact address.
Old Las Palmas
A home here can be framed around architecture only where the individual property supports that story. Protect expectations about driveway use, outdoor areas and neighborhood conduct through accurate listing details and property-specific rules.
Twin Palms
Modernism Week's October 2026 programme includes a featured home tour and a walking tour here, in the first midcentury neighborhood built by the Alexander Construction Co. Let the home's own design features and condition decide whether architecture-led copy is honest.
Vista Las Palmas
A recognised midcentury setting. Evaluate sightlines, pool and outdoor layout, accessibility and guest circulation at the home level before you let the neighborhood name carry the listing.
Deepwell
Visit Palm Springs publishes a self-guided bike tour of Deepwell Ranch. William Grant subdivided the old guest ranch in 1951, and the houses are still a mixture of Spanish Colonial Revival, Ranch and midcentury modern.
Not sure which lens fits?
The Palm Springs owner playbook works through area fit, seasons, amenities and the exact jurisdiction question by question.
Open the playbookThe operating year
Qualitative planning context from official city and destination sources. Not a demand forecast and not a monthly revenue allocation.
Hiking conditions are at their best and downtown is busy. Current event information, clear parking notes and an itinerary matched to the home's logistics carry the stay.
Confirmed dates refresh guest messages, traffic and parking notes. The City allows no outside amplified noise at a vacation rental while it is rented, so the quiet-conduct reminder goes out before the stay, not after a complaint.
Guests escape upward. The Tramway's Mountain Station is often 30 degrees cooler than downtown. The house still has to be comfortable when they come back, so cooling, shade and pool readiness are checked before every arrival.
Modernism Week – October runs October 15–18, 2026 and the architecture-tour season opens with it. Refresh photography, outdoor furniture, landscape and arrival instructions ahead of that.
Amenities with a purpose
Rules and jurisdictions
A marketing area is not a permit boundary. Match the parcel to the incorporated city or to unincorporated Riverside County first, then check capacity, taxes and private restrictions separately.
| Property area / authority | What to check | Official source |
|---|---|---|
| Inside the incorporated City of Palm SpringsSpecial Program Compliance | Palm Springs Municipal Code Chapter 5.25 allows vacation rentals and homeshares only as ancillary and secondary uses of residential property, limits them to single-family dwelling units and prohibits them in apartments, and confirms that a Vacation Rental Registration Certificate is a privilege, not a right. Ordinance No. 2133, adopted July 8, 2026, amended Chapter 5.25 and added Section 3.24.085 implementing California's Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2025. | Vacation Rentals · City of Palm Springs Vacation Rental Certificate Checked 2026-09-19 |
| City neighborhood capacityCheck before anything else | Ordinance 2075 capped certificates at 20% of the residential dwelling units in an Organized Neighborhood. An application in a neighborhood at 20% or higher is returned, and the applicant may ask to join that neighborhood's wait list. Certificates already issued are unaffected. The City publishes the percentage tables and the ONE-PS web map and updates them weekly. | Vacation Rental Neighborhood Percentage Information Checked 2026-09-19 |
| City tax and per-stay filingsPSMC 3.24 | Transient Occupancy Tax is governed by PSMC Chapter 3.24 and a TOT form is filed monthly for every vacation rental and homeshare, including a month with no guests. Contract Summaries are required for each guest stay of 28 consecutive days or less, filed through the online business center, and cannot be submitted retroactively. | Vacation Rental TOT and TBID Information Submit Contract Summary Checked 2026-09-19 |
| Unincorporated Riverside CountyOnly if outside city limits | A separate County programme under Ordinance 927. The Board of Supervisors adopted Ordinance No. 927.3 on August 25, 2026, effective September 24, 2026, and the renewal grace period has been eliminated. Certificates are annual and one is required for each short-term rental. | Short-Term Rental Program · Riverside County Planning Checked 2026-09-19 |
| HOA, condominium, deed, lease and community rulesPrivate governing documents | No City or County source decides whether a private community permits the intended rental use, guest parking or amenity access. The City publishes an HOA sample letter among its certificate documents, but that is a tool, not a determination. Review the controlling documents before marketing the home. | Further verification needed |
Programs that travel with the home
Base management runs the fundamentals. Defined programs cover guest readiness, utility control, preventative care and connectivity, each confirmed for your property rather than sold as a bundle.
360 Service Bundle
Linen and terry, Smart Home, preventative maintenance, AdVantage marketing and managed connectivity, with what is included and what changes made explicit.
Explore the programsSmart Home Program
Casago's smart home platform ties thermostats, locks and pool equipment to the booking calendar. In a Palm Springs summer that is the difference between a cool arrival and a cooling bill with nobody home.
See how it worksOwner decision tools
Owner-use calendar capacity and amenity break-even, with every input labeled as yours or illustrative. Educational, not a quote.
Open the toolsKeep researching
Owner playbook
Market pulse
Regulation watch
Amenity intelligence
Local insights
Owner Answer Center
The City administers vacation rentals and homeshares under Palm Springs Municipal Code Chapter 5.25, which establishes a registration and permitting process and states that a Vacation Rental Registration Certificate is a privilege, not a right. Chapter 5.25 limits these uses to single-family dwelling units and prohibits them in apartments. Confirm the live requirements with the City's Department of Special Program Compliance before you list.
Ordinance 2075 capped vacation rental certificates at 20% of the residential dwelling units in an Organized Neighborhood. The City states that an application in a neighborhood at 20% or higher will be returned, and that the applicant may ask to be placed on that neighborhood's wait list. Certificates already issued are not affected. Check your exact address against the City's percentage table and ONE-PS web map first.
No. A City certificate is not an HOA, condominium, lease or deed clearance. Private governing documents decide whether the intended use, guest parking and amenity access are permitted, and they can be stricter than the City. Review them and obtain any written determination before marketing the home.
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