How many hours' notice must a landlord give before entering in Minnesota?

24 hours. The 24-hour period is a floor inside a reasonableness standard, so more may be required where the circumstances demand it. The landlord must make a good-faith effort to give the notice, may enter only for a reasonable business purpose, and the notice must specify a time or an anticipated window of time of entry (Minn. Stat. 504B.211 subd. 2).

What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Minnesota?

Entry is allowed only for a reasonable business purpose, and the statute lists them: showings, maintenance work, code inspections, a tenant causing a disturbance, suspected lease violations, suspected unauthorized occupancy, prearranged senior-housing housekeeping, and units the tenant has vacated (subd. 3).

Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Minnesota?

Yes — Minnesota recognizes an emergency exception to the entry-notice requirement.

Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Minnesota?

Entry is permitted only between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., unless the landlord and tenant agree to an earlier or later time (subd. 2).

How much notice must a landlord give before entering in Minnesota?

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Check your municipality. Minnesota does not preempt local rent regulation — city or county ordinances may impose rent caps, notice rules, and fee limits that are stricter than the state-level rules on this page and are not covered here. Verify your municipality's ordinances before relying on any figure below. Verified local pages: St. Paul .

What the state record says

Local rent control is not flatly barred. Minn. Stat. 471.9996 subd. 1 stops any city, county, or town from adopting or renewing rent control on private residential property, but subd. 2 expressly permits it where the ordinance, charter amendment, or law is approved in a GENERAL ELECTION. 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.

Minnesota landlords must make a good-faith effort to give at least 24 hours' advance notice before entering a rental unit, the notice must state a time or anticipated window of entry, and the entry itself may occur only between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. unless the tenant agrees to a different hour.

Cited to Minn. Stat. 504B.211 subds. 2-4, 6 · Verified July 9, 2026

Entry is allowed only for a reasonable business purpose — the statute lists showings, maintenance, code inspections, disturbances, suspected lease violations or unauthorized occupancy, senior-housing housekeeping, and vacated units — and no notice is required when the landlord reasonably suspects immediate entry is needed to prevent injury to persons or property, to determine a tenant's safety, or to comply with local ordinances on unlawful activity, though the landlord must then disclose the entry in writing. A tenant may accept shorter notice but can never be required to waive prior notice as a lease condition, and each violation exposes the landlord to a civil penalty of up to $500 plus reasonable attorney fees, rent reduction up to full rescission, and recovery of the deposit. These rules took effect January 1, 2024 — anything still describing Minnesota as a bare 'reasonable notice' state is out of date.

Minnesota entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	24 hours
Notice standard	The 24-hour period is a floor inside a reasonableness standard, so more may be required where the circumstances demand it. The landlord must make a good-faith effort to give the notice, may enter only for a reasonable business purpose, and the notice must specify a time or an anticipated window of time of entry (Minn. Stat. 504B.211 subd. 2). Subdivision 2, as amended by the 2023 housing omnibus (2023 Session Laws ch. 52, effective Jan. 1, 2024), requires 'reasonable notice under the circumstances of not less than 24 hours in advance.' The tenant may voluntarily permit entry on shorter notice, but may not be required to waive the right to prior notice as a condition of getting or keeping the lease.
Permitted reasons	Entry is allowed only for a reasonable business purpose, and the statute lists them: showings, maintenance work, code inspections, a tenant causing a disturbance, suspected lease violations, suspected unauthorized occupancy, prearranged senior-housing housekeeping, and units the tenant has vacated (subd. 3). The full statutory list is: showing the unit to prospective tenants before the lease ends; showing to prospective buyers or insurance representatives; performing maintenance work; allowing state, county, or municipal inspections for health, housing, building, or fire codes; a tenant causing a disturbance within the unit; reasonable belief the tenant is violating the lease; prearranged housekeeping in senior housing where 80% or more of residents are 55+; reasonable belief the unit is occupied without authorization; and a unit the tenant has vacated.
Emergency exception	Yes
Time-of-day restrictions	Entry is permitted only between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., unless the landlord and tenant agree to an earlier or later time (subd. 2).

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Minnesota Landlord Entry Notice Laws (verified July 9, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/minnesota/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Minnesota statute in the citations section below.

Notes and caveats

Primary stale-source trap: 'reasonable notice, no set hours' — Before 2023 Session Laws ch. 52 took effect on January 1, 2024, Minn. Stat. 504B.211 required only 'reasonable notice' with no fixed period — and a large share of circulating summaries, form-notice generators and fifty-state charts still say 'reasonable notice — no set hours.' The current text sets a 24-HOUR MINIMUM inside a reasonableness standard, adds the time-or-window content requirement, and adds the 8:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. entry window.
24 hours is the floor, not the whole test — Read the rule as 'at least 24 hours, and reasonable under the circumstances' — more may be required where the circumstances demand it.
What a violation costs (subd. 6) — Up to a $500 civil penalty PER VIOLATION plus reasonable attorney fees, rent reduction up to full rescission of the lease, and recovery of the damage deposit less amounts lawfully retained under 504B.178.
The emergency exception has three prongs (subd. 4) — Injury to persons or property in connection with maintenance, security or law enforcement; determining a tenant's safety; and complying with local ordinances on unlawful activity.
The written disclosure after an emergency entry — After an emergency entry, or an entry made while the tenant is away, the landlord must disclose the entry in writing left in a conspicuous place — a duty commonly omitted from summaries.
Anti-waiver: ad hoc consent yes, lease condition no — A tenant may voluntarily permit entry on shorter notice, but can never be required to waive the right to prior notice as a condition of getting or keeping the lease.
Manufactured home parks are outside this section — Minn. Stat. 504B.211 does not apply to manufactured home parks, which run on the separate chapter 327C regime.
Where these figures come from — Every entry-notice figure here, including the subd. 6 remedies and the anti-waiver clause, is the current text of Minn. Stat. § 504B.211.

Common questions: Minnesota entry 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 hours' notice must a landlord give before entering in Minnesota?: 24 hours. The 24-hour period is a floor inside a reasonableness standard, so more may be required where the circumstances demand it. The landlord must make a good-faith effort to give the notice, may enter only for a reasonable business purpose, and the notice must specify a time or an anticipated window of time of entry (Minn. Stat. 504B.211 subd. 2).
What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Minnesota?: Entry is allowed only for a reasonable business purpose, and the statute lists them: showings, maintenance work, code inspections, a tenant causing a disturbance, suspected lease violations, suspected unauthorized occupancy, prearranged senior-housing housekeeping, and units the tenant has vacated (subd. 3).
Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Minnesota?: Yes — Minnesota recognizes an emergency exception to the entry-notice requirement.
Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Minnesota?: Entry is permitted only between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., unless the landlord and tenant agree to an earlier or later time (subd. 2).

Statute citations

Minn. Stat. 504B.211 subds. 2-4, 6 (verified 2026) Official source

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 read twice independently — 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 (the HTML section page 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 while not yet in force; folded into late_fees 2026-08-02 once effective); HF 3245 status read (died in House committee at sine die 2026-05-18, not flagged).