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Generally Investor friendly
Short‑term rentals are explicitly permitted under Placer County rules with a generous 3,900‑permit cap (current Alta market has only 29 listings), but investors face moderate permitting costs (~$326 for the STR permit and ~$507 for Fire Life Safety inspection), two fire inspections (one interior, one exterior defensible space), a local 24/7 contact requirement, and other compliance steps (TOT certificate, bear‑proof trash, postings).
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STR specialist · Alta, CA
Alta (Spanish for "Upper") is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Placer County, California, United States, about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Auburn. The village is located off Interstate 80 and along the historical First transcontinental railroad. The ZIP code is 95701 and the area code 530. One of the few buildings other than private residences is the Alta-Dutch Flat Grammar School serving kindergarten through eighth grade students. The high school that serves Alta is named Colfax High School. Colfax High School is 11 miles southwest in the incorporated town of Colfax. The population of Alta was 615 at the 2020 census. A historical California place once named Alta was located in San Diego County near the present-day La Mesa–El Cajon boundary. This historical place was along the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, now the San Diego Trolley Orange Line, at its Murray Drive undercrossing in La Mesa. The community was named after the Spanish word meaning "upper" or "high".