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

Verified July 9, 2026 All Minnesota topics →

Minnesota has no statute fixing a set number of days' notice for a rent increase — for month-to-month (at-will) tenancies the operative rule is derived from Minn.

Stat. 504B.135, under which either party may end the tenancy on written notice at least as long as the rent interval (capped at three months), so the Attorney General's guidance pegs a valid rent increase at written notice of one rental period plus one day. Where a lease sets its own notice periods, Minn. Stat. 504B.147 forbids the landlord from giving a rent-increase notice on shorter notice than the lease demands of the tenant to quit, and that protection cannot be waived. There is no statewide rent control and no limit on the size or frequency of increases, but Minnesota does not flatly ban local rent control either: under Minn. Stat. 471.9996 a city, county, or town may control rents if — and only if — voters approve the measure in a general election, which is exactly how St. Paul enacted its 3% cap in 2021. Minneapolis voters authorized a rent-stabilization ordinance in 2021, but the city has never enacted one.

Minnesota rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary)
Varies by increase size Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases Rent cannot change during a fixed term unless the lease itself provides for it (contract principle; no 504B section addresses mid-term increases). Where a lease sets notice periods, Minn. Stat. 504B.147 (enacted 2019) forbids the landlord from giving a notice to quit OR A NOTICE OF RENT INCREASE shorter than the period the lease requires of the tenant for a notice of intention to quit, lets the tenant use whichever of the two lease periods is shorter, and voids any waiver as contrary to public policy.
Statewide rent control / stabilization No
Rent control details No statewide rent control. Minn. Stat. 471.9996 subd. 1 bars any city, county, or town from adopting or renewing rent control on private residential property — EXCEPT that subd. 2 expressly permits it if the ordinance, charter amendment, or law is approved in a GENERAL ELECTION (full text read twice, including the Revisor's official PDF). The exception is live, not theoretical: St. Paul voters approved a 3% annual rent-stabilization cap in November 2021 (effective May 2022), which the city council has since narrowed — most recently on 2025-05-07 (4-3 vote, changes effective 2025-06-13) to permanently exempt units first receiving a certificate of occupancy after 2004-12-31. Minneapolis voters in 2021 authorized their council to draft a rent-stabilization ordinance, but none has been enacted.
Local rent control preempted No
Frequency limits Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

Encoding decisions: notice_days_month_to_month is null per the derivation convention — 504B.135 (read twice, including official PDF) addresses only TERMINATION ('at least as long as the interval between the time rent is due or three months, whichever is less'); the 'one rental period plus one day' figure widely quoted for rent increases is the Attorney General's handbook derivation (ag.state.mn.us, read this session), not a statutory day-count, and page copy should present it as such. 504B.147 IS a genuine statutory rent-increase-notice constraint but supplies no fixed number — it pegs the landlord's minimum to the lease's tenant-notice period, so it lives in fixed_term_rules. local_control_preempted is encoded FALSE deliberately: 471.9996 is a conditional preemption — council-enacted rent control is void, but voter-approved general-election rent control is expressly authorized and one such ordinance (St. Paul) is in force, so encoding true would misdescribe the on-the-ground law; the NJ/MD-camp encoding with the voter-approval twist carried in rent_control_details. Traps debunked: (1) several 2026-dated aggregator pages claim a statewide 'one rental period plus one day' STATUTE or attribute rent-increase notice to 504B.177 (the late-fee section) — both wrong; (2) the 60-day rent-increase notice some sites cite is the manufactured-home-park rule (Minn. Stat. ch. 327C), inapplicable to standard rentals; (3) HF 3245 (2025, would have repealed the 471.9996 voter-approval exception and killed St. Paul-style local rent control) fueled 'Minnesota is banning rent control' chatter — it died in the House Housing Finance and Policy Committee without a hearing when the 94th Legislature adjourned sine die 2026-05-18, and 471.9996 was unchanged on revisor.mn.gov as of 2026-07-09.

Common questions: Minnesota 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 Minnesota?
No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Minnesota have rent control?
No — Minnesota has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No statewide rent control. Minn. Stat. 471.9996 subd. 1 bars any city, county, or town from adopting or renewing rent control on private residential property — EXCEPT that subd. 2 expressly permits it if the ordinance, charter amendment, or law is approved in a GENERAL ELECTION (full text read twice, including the Revisor's official PDF). The exception is live, not theoretical: St. Paul voters approved a 3% annual rent-stabilization cap in November 2021 (effective May 2022), which the city council has since narrowed — most recently on 2025-05-07 (4-3 vote, changes effective 2025-06-13) to permanently exempt units first receiving a certificate of occupancy after 2004-12-31. Minneapolis voters in 2021 authorized their council to draft a rent-stabilization ordinance, but none has been enacted.
Does Minnesota preempt local rent control ordinances?
No — Minnesota does not preempt local rent control ordinances.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Minnesota?
Rent cannot change during a fixed term unless the lease itself provides for it (contract principle; no 504B section addresses mid-term increases). Where a lease sets notice periods, Minn. Stat. 504B.147 (enacted 2019) forbids the landlord from giving a notice to quit OR A NOTICE OF RENT INCREASE shorter than the period the lease requires of the tenant for a notice of intention to quit, lets the tenant use whichever of the two lease periods is shorter, and voids any waiver as contrary to public policy.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Minnesota?
Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Minnesota Revisor of Statutes site (revisor.mn.gov, Minnesota Statutes 2025 edition): Minn. Stat. 504B.178, 504B.177, and 504B.211 each fetched twice in independent calls — the 1% interest rate, three-week/five-day return deadlines, $500 bad-faith punitive cap, 8%-of-overdue-rent late-fee cap, 24-hour entry notice, 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. window, and $500-per-violation entry penalty all matched verbatim across reads. 504B.135 and 471.9996 read twice each (HTML fetch plus the Revisor's official PDF read in full). 504B.147 and 504B.120 read once each. MN Attorney General landlord-tenant handbook (ag.state.mn.us) read for the 'one rental period plus one day' rent-increase derivation. 2026 enactment sweep on revisor.mn.gov: SF 4171 bill status and enrolled text read directly (Laws 2026 ch. 81, signed 2026-05-12, effective 2026-08-01 — flagged as pending, not incorporated, since the Statutes-2025 pages predate it); HF 3245 status read (died in House committee at sine die 2026-05-18, not flagged).