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 § 11-80-8.1 (official ALISON code viewer) (b) and 3 more cited sources · Verified October 1, 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 in which the local government itself has a property interest. 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 codes, health codes and other general laws affecting rental property that apply equally to similarly situated owner-occupied residential 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

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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 has not been amended since its 2006 enactment: its credit line in the Code of Alabama names only Act 2006-316.

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.

Changes since last full verification

The Verified date above (October 1, 2026) marks the last time every figure on this page was verified end-to-end against official sources. The changes below were published since then, each verified against the official source it names (what these dates mean).

Correction, October 2, 2026 — Alabama (correction): the eviction page had shown the notices for unpaid rent and for a lease violation as 7 days. The statute gives seven business days after the tenant receives the notice (Ala. Code 35-9A-421(a) and (b)), and the page now shows business days. The business-day wording dates from Act 2018-473, effective June 1, 2018, not from the 2014 act the late fee page had named. Also corrected: a tenant who appeals holds off the writ by paying the circuit court clerk the rent that has come due since the case was filed, not all rent owed (35-9A-461(d)); a sheriff or constable who neglects or refuses to execute the process forfeits $200 to the party aggrieved, which the page had called a fine (6-6-333); the circuit court may hear a case from the start where a money claim joined with it exceeds $6,000 (12-11-30); the notice for a default that cannot be cured is a seven-day notice the statute does not require to be written (35-9A-421(d)); the bar on local rent control leaves a local government free to manage property in which it has a property interest (11-80-8.1). The entry page now says that the sentence setting two days' notice speaks of showing the premises, and that a general notice or schedule given more than two days ahead covers repairs, maintenance and pest control (35-9A-303(c) and (d)).

Citations

Ala. Code § 11-80-8.1 (official ALISON code viewer) · (b) (verified 2026) Official source
Ala. Code § 35-9A-121 (official ALISON code viewer) (verified 2026) Official source
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: Every section these answers rest on was read on October 1, 2026 on the Legislature's Code of Alabama service at alison.legislature.state.al.us, which includes the acts of the 2026 Regular Session: all of Title 35, chapter 9A; sections 35-9-6 and 35-9B-9; Title 6, chapter 6, article 8; sections 12-11-30 and 12-12-30; and section 11-80-8.1, each with its credit line. The history of the 60-day deposit deadline and the seven-business-day notices was read in the enrolled Acts 2014-279 and 2018-473 on the Secretary of State's acts roll, and in Act 2006-316 with its Alabama Comments on the state judiciary's site. The district court provisions of the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure (Rules 6, 12, 55 and 62) were read on judicial.alabama.gov and the eviction complaint form C-59 on eforms.alacourt.gov. No act from 2019 through 2026 amended a section cited here: each section's credit line, the 2026 table of code sections affected and the 2025 and 2026 act lists were searched, and the 2026 special session dealt only with redistricting. Negative answers (no late-fee cap, no grace period, no deposit interest, no separate account, no rent-increase notice) rest on the full text of chapter 9A and a search of the whole code for each subject; the manufactured-home chapters (Title 35, chapter 12A and Title 24, chapters 5 and 6) hold no tenancy terms on these subjects.