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

Verified July 9, 2026 All Indiana topics →

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 in March 2020 (pandemic timing, breadth concerns); the General Assembly overrode the veto Feb. 17, 2021 (Senate 30-17, House 67-32; assigned P.L. 168) — this is the statute that killed Indianapolis's 2020 tenant-protection ordinances. Cross-host VERBATIM verification of the current (c) text was not obtainable this session (Justia/Casetext/LegiScan/LawServer/onecle blocked or 404 for this section; iga.in.gov returns a JS shell) — (c) is encoded from FindLaw's Jan-2026 text plus the bill record, and corroborated at the summary level by Justia's 2024-code index (section heading 'Local Units Prohibited From Regulating Rental Rates and Landlord-Tenant Relationship'; screening/deposits/any-landlord-fee scope and the void-and-unenforceable clause all match via search-indexed content). Residual carry-forward: verbatim re-read of (c)'s enumerated list on iga.in.gov in a browser session. HEA 1001-2026 (signed March 2026) limits local zoning/permit powers but touches no landlord-tenant field.

Statute citations

How this record was verified: Indiana's official code viewer (iga.in.gov) 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; subsection (c)'s enactment was confirmed against the SEA 148-2020 bill record and contemporaneous coverage of the February 17, 2021 veto override (assigned P.L. 168) — a cross-host read of the CURRENT (c) text was not obtainable this session (Justia, Casetext, LegiScan, LawServer, and archive.org all blocked automated fetches) and is a 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.