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How much notice is required to raise the rent in Indiana?

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Indiana landlords must give at least 30 days' written notice before raising rent on a month-to-month tenancy — the default rule of IC 32-31-5-4, which requires 30 days' written notice before 'modifying the rental agreement' unless the written lease itself sets different terms.

That waivability is the catch most summaries omit: a lease clause allowing changes on, say, 14 days' notice displaces the statutory 30 days. The backstop is the termination framework — a month-to-month tenant who declines the new rent is entitled to notice equal to one rental period to leave (IC 32-31-1-4; one month's written notice for a tenancy at will under IC 32-31-1-1) — and a fixed-term lease locks the rent until it expires. There is no limit on how much or how often rent can rise: Indiana has no rent control, cities and towns are expressly forbidden to regulate rental rates (IC 32-31-1-20(b)), and since the 2021 override of the governor's veto of SEA 148, they are also barred from regulating virtually any other aspect of the landlord-tenant relationship, from deposits to landlord fees.

Indiana rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month 30 days
Varies by increase size Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases Rent is locked for a fixed term unless the lease itself provides for a change — IC 32-31-5-4's 30-day modification notice is expressly a default ('unless otherwise provided by a written rental agreement') and does not let a landlord rewrite an unexpired fixed-term lease. No notice is required to end a tenancy at its natural expiration (IC 32-31-1-8(1)-(2)), so a renewal-time increase needs only whatever notice the lease itself promises.
Statewide rent control / stabilization No
Rent control details No rent control exists at any level, and none can be created locally: IC 32-31-1-20(b) provides that a unit 'may not regulate rental rates for privately owned real property, through a zoning ordinance or otherwise, unless the regulation is authorized by an act of the general assembly.' Subsection (a) carves out only property receiving government funds allocated expressly for reduced rents to low- or moderate-income tenants (subject to IC 36-1-3-8.5). There is no cap on the size or frequency of increases.
Local rent control preempted Yes
Frequency limits Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

Encoding decisions: notice_days_month_to_month is 30 — a real statutory figure (IC 32-31-5-4, double-read verbatim on FindLaw current-through-Jan-2026 and the official-lineage 2013 PDF; text unchanged since P.L.2-2002) — NOT a termination-notice derivation like TX/GA/AZ. Two caveats must ride with it in page copy: it is a DEFAULT (written lease can override) and chapter 5 applies only to rental agreements entered into or renewed after June 30, 1999, with waiver of the chapter otherwise void (32-31-5-1). Stale-source trap: older 50-state charts say Indiana has 'no rent-increase notice statute' — wrong since at least the 2002 recodification. Preemption history (headline item): 1-20's rent-rate preemption dates to the 2002 recodification in substance; SEA 148 (2020) reworded (b) and added (c), which forbids local regulation of tenant screening, security deposits, lease applications, leasing terms and conditions, disclosures, party rights, and 'any fee charged by a landlord,' declaring violating ordinances 'void and unenforceable.' Gov. Holcomb vetoed SEA 148 on March 25, 2020 (pandemic timing, breadth concerns); the General Assembly overrode the veto — Senate Feb. 8, 2021 (Roll Call 64: 30-17), House Feb. 17, 2021 (Roll Call 159: 67-33) — and it became Public Law 168 (cited P.L.168-2020), the statute that killed Indianapolis's 2020 tenant-protection ordinances (override votes and P.L. designation read from the official iga.in.gov bill record 2026-07-10). The current (c) text — all seven enumerated items and the void-and-unenforceable clause — was read VERBATIM on the official iga.in.gov 2025 code viewer in a browser session 2026-07-10, matching FindLaw's Jan-2026 text exactly; the official history line also shows a later amendment by P.L.215-2021, SEC.1 (post-override cleanup year; text as read already reflects it). Carry-forward retired. HEA 1001-2026 (signed March 2026) limits local zoning/permit powers but touches no landlord-tenant field.

Common questions: Indiana rent increase notice

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Indiana?
30 days.
Does Indiana have rent control?
No — Indiana has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No rent control exists at any level, and none can be created locally: IC 32-31-1-20(b) provides that a unit 'may not regulate rental rates for privately owned real property, through a zoning ordinance or otherwise, unless the regulation is authorized by an act of the general assembly.' Subsection (a) carves out only property receiving government funds allocated expressly for reduced rents to low- or moderate-income tenants (subject to IC 36-1-3-8.5). There is no cap on the size or frequency of increases.
Does Indiana preempt local rent control ordinances?
Yes — Indiana preempts local rent control ordinances.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Indiana?
Rent is locked for a fixed term unless the lease itself provides for a change — IC 32-31-5-4's 30-day modification notice is expressly a default ('unless otherwise provided by a written rental agreement') and does not let a landlord rewrite an unexpired fixed-term lease. No notice is required to end a tenancy at its natural expiration (IC 32-31-1-8(1)-(2)), so a renewal-time increase needs only whatever notice the lease itself promises.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Indiana?
Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

How this record was verified: 2026-07-10 browser session (in-app browser, shadow-DOM extraction from the official iga.in.gov 2025 code viewer) closed the outstanding carry-forwards with OFFICIAL-HOST verbatim reads: IC 32-31-1-20 in full (subsections (a)-(c), the seven-item enumerated list in (c), the void-and-unenforceable clause, and the history line 'As added by P.L.2-2002, SEC.16. Amended by P.L.266-2017, SEC.1; P.L.168-2020, SEC.17; P.L.215-2021, SEC.1'), IC 32-31-1-6, and IC 32-31-1-7 — all matching the previously encoded mirror-verified text with no substantive differences. SEA 148-2020's designation was pinned from the official iga.in.gov bill record: vetoed 2020-03-25, veto overridden Senate 2021-02-08 (Roll Call 64: 30-17) and House 2021-02-17 (Roll Call 159: 67-33), 'Public Law 168' entered 2021-02-17; the code viewer cites it as P.L.168-2020. Original verification basis (2026-07-09): Indiana's official code viewer is JavaScript-rendered and returns no statutory text to non-browser clients, so text was verified on two independent code mirrors and reconciled verbatim: FindLaw (codes.findlaw.com, 'current as of January 01, 2026') and Justia's archived official-text PDFs of IC 32-31 chapters 1, 3, and 5 (statecodesfiles.justia.com, 2013 edition, carrying the official 'As added by P.L.' history lines). Sections double-read across both hosts with figures matching verbatim: IC 32-31-3-12, 32-31-3-14, 32-31-3-15, 32-31-3-16 (45-day deadline, forfeiture rule, attorney fees), 32-31-5-4 (30-day modification notice), 32-31-5-6 (entry, all subsections), 32-31-1-1, 32-31-1-2, and 32-31-1-4 (termination-notice periods); 32-31-3-12/-14/-15/-16 were additionally read on law.onecle.com. IC 32-31-1-20 (preemption) was read verbatim on FindLaw (current through Jan. 1, 2026) and in the pre-amendment 2013 official text; the current-text official-host read was completed 2026-07-10 (see above), retiring that carry-forward. Scope sections IC 32-31-2.9-1/-3/-4, 32-31-5-1, and 32-31-5-3 read on FindLaw/2013 PDF. 2025-2026 session sweeps (IGA subject list 'Landlords and Tenants', LegiScan) on 2026-07-09 found no enacted change to any encoded field; 2026 bills SB 127 and HB 1435 died at the session's March 2026 sine die adjournment, and HEA 1001-2026 (signed) addresses zoning/permitting only.