Housing & Tenant · Rent Increase Notice
Rent Increase Notice by State
How many days of advance notice a landlord must give before a rent increase takes effect. For each state, with whether the rule is dedicated or comes from the notice to end a tenancy, cited to the statute.
Read this first: notice days, not the amount
Two things get confused about rent increases: how much warning you are owed, and how much the rent can go up. This page covers only the first, because the notice period is a stable statutory number. A few states have a dedicated rent-increase rule: California ties it to the size of the increase (30 days, or 90 days for an increase over 10%), and New York ties it to how long you have lived there (30, 60, or 90 days).
Most states have no dedicated statute. There, a landlord can raise the rent on a month-to-month tenancy only by giving the same notice used to end the tenancy, so the answer is derived from that rule. In every state, a fixed-term lease locks the rent until renewal. Some states also limit how much rent can rise, but those caps move with inflation, so we note only that such a limit exists and link you to the current figure.
Pick your state
The notice period, whether it is dedicated or derived, and the statute on each card.
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What these pages are, and what they aren't
Each state page is a reference for the rent-increase notice period and the steps to check an increase. They are deliberately not advice for your lease: your written lease and any local ordinance can change the answer, so each page links to the statute and a tenant resource. This is legal information, not legal advice.