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Rent Increase Notice in Minnesota
How many days of advance notice a landlord must give before a rent increase takes effect in Minnesota, how a fixed-term lease is treated, and what to check, cited to the statute.
The notice periods in Minnesota
How much warning is required before a higher rent can take effect, and how a fixed lease is treated.
| When | Notice in Minnesota | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Reciprocity rule | At least your move-out notice | The landlord may not give notice of a rent increase shorter than the period the lease requires the tenant to give to move out, under Minn. Stat. 504B.147. So read your own move-out notice clause. |
| Fixed-term lease | None mid-term | During a fixed-term lease the rent is fixed until renewal. The reciprocity rule governs the notice for changing a periodic tenancy. |
| Limit on the amount | Separate rule | Minnesota has no statewide cap, but local rent control is allowed with voter approval, and Saint Paul limits residential increases to no more than 3 percent in a 12-month period, subject to a landlord exception process. Confirm the current Saint Paul rules, which have been amended more than once. |
| Local ordinance | Varies | Significant. The Saint Paul rent stabilization ordinance limits residential increases to no more than 3 percent in a 12-month period, with a landlord process to seek an exception. It has been amended since it passed, so treat any figure as perishable and confirm the current rules. |
| If notice is skipped | Not effective | Minnesota makes the lease symmetrical: whatever notice the lease demands from the renter to move out is the minimum the landlord must give to raise the rent. That reciprocity is itself an anti-evasion device, because it stops a landlord writing a long tenant-notice period into the lease and using a short one themselves. Guides describing 30 or 60 day tiers by size of increase are wrong, and the section contains no such tiers. |
| Statute | Minn. Stat. §504B.147 | The controlling statute for this notice period. Read the full text through the source link below. |
Several guides state Minn. Stat. 504B.147 requires 60 days for increases of 10 percent or more and 30 days otherwise. The section was read in full and contains no such tiers, which appears to be Maine’s rule misattributed. The Saint Paul ordinance has been amended more than once, most recently with 2025 effect.
Next steps if your rent is going up
Concrete, neutral steps to check a rent increase in Minnesota. This is legal information, not legal advice.
- Read your lease move-out notice clause
In Minnesota, the landlord cannot give you less rent-increase notice than the lease requires you to give to move out. So the clause that sets your move-out notice sets your rent-increase protection.
- Ignore the 30 or 60 day claim
Guides that say Minnesota requires 30 or 60 days by size of increase are wrong, and the statute contains no such tiers. The rule is the reciprocity rule, so do not rely on those figures.
- Check the Saint Paul cap if you live there
Saint Paul limits residential increases to no more than 3 percent in a 12-month period, with an exception process. The ordinance has changed, so confirm the current rules and effective date.
- Get local help
A local Minnesota legal aid office can read your lease clause and confirm any local cap. Search for legal aid in your area.
This is general legal information, not legal advice. Read your own lease and check for a local ordinance, since either can change the notice that applies to your home.
What Minnesota renters get wrong
Minnesota does something no other state in this topic does. Instead of setting a number, it makes the lease symmetrical. Under Minn. Stat. 504B.147, whatever notice the lease demands from the renter when they leave is the minimum the landlord must give when raising the rent. A lease that requires the renter to give sixty days therefore gives the renter sixty days of warning in return. The practical instruction is unusual and genuinely useful: go and read the move-out notice clause in your own lease, because that clause sets your rent-increase protection. This also corrects a widespread error. Several guides state that Minnesota requires sixty days for increases of ten percent or more and thirty days otherwise. The section was read in full on the official site and contains no such tiers, and that tiering looks like Maine's rule attributed to the wrong state. There is no statewide cap, but local rent control is allowed with voter approval, and Saint Paul limits residential increases to no more than three percent in a twelve-month period, subject to a landlord exception process, with rules that have been amended more than once.
Common questions
How much notice does Minnesota actually require?
There is no fixed number. Minn. Stat. 504B.147 bars a landlord from giving rent-increase notice shorter than the period the lease requires the tenant to give to move out. So your own move-out notice clause sets the minimum.
Where in my lease do I find the answer in Minnesota?
In the clause that sets how much notice you must give to move out. Because of the reciprocity rule, that period is the minimum the landlord must give to raise the rent, so read that clause first.
Does Saint Paul cap my increase in Minnesota?
Saint Paul limits residential rent increases to no more than 3 percent in a 12-month period, with a landlord process to seek an exception. The ordinance has been amended, so confirm the current rules and their effective date.
Why do other sites say 30 or 60 days in Minnesota?
Because they misattribute a tiered rule to Minnesota. Minn. Stat. 504B.147 was read in full and contains no 30 or 60 day tiers by size of increase, only the reciprocity rule. The tiering looks like Maine’s rule.
Not legal advicePlainStatute provides plain-language summaries of public law for general information only. This is not legal advice. Statutes change; always confirm current requirements with the official source linked above before acting.