How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Alabama?

No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).

Does Alabama have rent control?

No — Alabama has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Alabama has no statewide rent control, no cap on the size or frequency of increases, and no city or county may create one. Ala. Code § 11-80-8.1 bars every local governmental unit from controlling the rent charged for leasing private property.

Does Alabama preempt local rent control ordinances?

Cities and counties in Alabama cannot enact rent control — state law bars local governments from regulating the rent charged for private property (Ala. Code § 11-80-8.1).

Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Alabama?

Rent during a fixed term is locked by the contract unless the lease itself provides for changes. No section of chapter 9A addresses mid-term or renewal rent increases, and § 35-9A-161(a) leaves rent to the parties' agreement.

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

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Alabama has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase — the 30-day figure widely quoted online is derived from Ala. Code § 35-9A-441(b), which lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy on 30 days' written notice before the periodic rental date, so a landlord proposing higher rent is effectively offering new terms the tenant can decline by leaving (week-to-week tenancies: 7 days).

Cited to Ala. Code § 35-9A-441 (current-code mirror, 2025 ed.) (a)-(b) and 4 more Alabama statutes · Verified July 10, 2026

There is no limit on how large or how frequent increases can be: Alabama has no rent control, a 1993 statute bars every city, town, county, and other local governmental unit from controlling rents on private property, and the landlord-tenant act separately supersedes all local ordinances on residential landlord-tenant relations. Rent under a fixed-term lease is locked by the contract unless the lease itself allows changes.

Alabama 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 during a fixed term is locked by the contract unless the lease itself provides for changes. No section of chapter 9A addresses mid-term or renewal rent increases, and § 35-9A-161(a) leaves rent to the parties' agreement.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	Alabama has no statewide rent control, no cap on the size or frequency of increases, and no city or county may create one. Ala. Code § 11-80-8.1 bars every local governmental unit from controlling the rent charged for leasing private property. § 11-80-8.1 (Acts 1993, No. 93-421) reaches any 'ordinance, resolution, or rule that would have the effect of controlling the amount of rent charged for leasing private property,' with a carve-out only for property the local government itself owns. Separately, § 35-9A-121 (as amended by Act 2009-633) field-preempts ALL county and municipal ordinances on residential landlord-tenant relations, superseding any enacted before or after January 1, 2007. Localities keep only building and health codes that apply equally to owner-occupied property.
Local rent regulation	Cities and counties in Alabama cannot enact rent control — state law bars local governments from regulating the rent charged for private property (Ala. Code § 11-80-8.1).
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Alabama Rent Increase Notice Laws (verified July 10, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/alabama/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Alabama statute in the citations section below.

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Notes and caveats

'Alabama requires 30 days' notice to raise rent' overstates the law — No such statute exists. The widely quoted 30-day figure is derived from § 35-9A-441(b), a termination-notice statute that never mentions rent increases — a landlord proposing higher rent is effectively offering new terms the tenant can decline by leaving.
Why the notice field is blank instead of '30' — Because the figure is practice-derived rather than statutory, no number is recorded here — the same treatment given to Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
The notice pegs to the rental date, not just any 30 days — § 35-9A-441(b) runs the notice to 'the periodic rental date specified in the notice' — a mid-month notice therefore runs to the next rental date, not merely 30 days out.
Rent control is doubly preempted — Ala. Code § 11-80-8.1 bars every local governmental unit from controlling rents on private property — a Title 11 statute that sits outside the landlord-tenant act — and § 35-9A-121 separately preempts the whole field of residential landlord-tenant relations for county and municipal ordinances (strengthened from contravention-preemption to field-preemption by Act 2009-633).
Unchanged since 2006 — § 35-9A-441 is textually identical to the 2006 enactment — it has never been amended.

Common questions: Alabama 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 Alabama?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Alabama have rent control?: No — Alabama has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Alabama has no statewide rent control, no cap on the size or frequency of increases, and no city or county may create one. Ala. Code § 11-80-8.1 bars every local governmental unit from controlling the rent charged for leasing private property.
Does Alabama preempt local rent control ordinances?: Cities and counties in Alabama cannot enact rent control — state law bars local governments from regulating the rent charged for private property (Ala. Code § 11-80-8.1).
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Alabama?: Rent during a fixed term is locked by the contract unless the lease itself provides for changes. No section of chapter 9A addresses mid-term or renewal rent increases, and § 35-9A-161(a) leaves rent to the parties' agreement.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Alabama?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

Ala. Code § 35-9A-441 (current-code mirror, 2025 ed.) (a)-(b) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
Ala. Code § 11-80-8.1 (current-code mirror, 2025 ed.) (b) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
Ala. Code § 35-9A-121 (current-code mirror, 2025 ed.) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
Ala. Code § 35-9A-441 (official ALISON code viewer) (b) (verified 2026) Official source
HB 287 / Act 2006-316 (official as-enacted text; § 441 unamended since enactment) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Alabama's code is LexisNexis-published and the official ALISON code viewer requires interactive access (the legacy alisondb host is dead), so verification pairs independent current-code mirrors with official as-enacted session-law text: Ala. Code §§ 35-9A-121, 35-9A-122, 35-9A-141, 35-9A-143, 35-9A-161, 35-9A-163, 35-9A-201, 35-9A-303, 35-9A-421, 35-9A-441, and 11-80-8.1 each read verbatim on at least two independent hosts (Justia 2025-code edition, FindLaw current through 2024-12-30, al.elaws.us) with every decisive figure matching (one-month cap and its three exceptions, 60-day return, 90-day forfeiture, double-deposit penalty, two days' entry notice, 30-day/7-day periodic termination notice, seven-business-day cure windows), and the full text of HB 287/Act 2006-316 (the URLTA enactment, with Alabama Comments) read from the state judiciary host macon.alacourt.gov, against which whole-chapter negative checks were run (no late-fee cap, no grace period, no deposit interest, no escrow requirement). Act 2014-279 (SB291, eff. 2014-07-01, 35->60-day and 180->90-day changes) verified via matching credit lines on three mirrors; no official act PDF available. Pending-bill check 2026-07-09: 2026 Regular Session adjourned sine die; only adjacent bill HB80 (eviction writ procedure) — no bill touching the four topics. The remaining official-host confirmations were completed 2026-07-10: §§ 35-9A-201 (full (a)-(h) text, history line 'Act 2006-316, p. 668, §1; Act 2014-279, p. 886, §1'), 35-9A-303 (full (a)-(e) text), and 35-9A-441 (full (a)-(c) text) each read verbatim ON THE OFFICIAL ALISON CODE VIEWER (alison.legislature.state.al.us/code-of-alabama?section=...), matching the mirror-verified readings with no substantive differences — the citations marked official are now sight-verified, and Act 2014-279's credit line was confirmed on the official host. HB80's Senate fate also resolved 2026-07-10: passed House 103-0 (2026-01-22), reported out of Senate Judiciary (2026-02-18), placed on the Senate calendar (2026-02-19), and died in chamber without a floor vote at sine die — dead, not law, nothing to flag.