How much notice is required to raise the rent in Kansas?
Kansas has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase — the 30-day figure quoted for month-to-month tenancies is derived from K.S.A. 58-2570(b), which lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy by written notice effective on a rent-paying date at least 30 days after the other side receives it, so a landlord proposing higher rent is effectively offering new terms the tenant can decline by leaving.
Cited to K.S.A. 58-2570 (b) and 2 more Kansas statutes · Verified July 11, 2026
Two derivation details matter: the 30 days run from receipt of the notice, not mailing, and the change lands on a periodic rent-paying date. There is no cap on the size or frequency of increases: Kansas has no rent control, and K.S.A. 12-16,120 expressly forbids every city, county and township from adopting any ordinance controlling rent on privately owned residential or commercial property — Kansas cities' constitutional home-rule power does not get around that uniform statute. One guardrail exists: under K.S.A. 58-2572 a landlord may not raise rent in retaliation for a tenant's code complaint, complaint about the landlord's statutory duties, or tenant-union membership, though good-faith increases that pass through documented cost rises (taxes, utilities, acts of God) are protected even then.
Kansas 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. That is a contract principle rather than a statute: no section of the Kansas Residential Landlord and Tenant Act addresses mid-term or renewal increases. K.S.A. 58-2570(b) adds that a rental agreement for a definite term of more than 30 days is not construed as month-to-month even if rent is payable at 30-day intervals. |
| Statewide rent control / stabilization | No |
| Rent control details | No statewide rent control exists, and every Kansas county, city and township is expressly barred from adopting any ordinance that would control rent on privately owned residential or commercial property. K.S.A. 12-16,120 (enacted 2001, amended 2016) expressly bars every political subdivision — county, municipality or township — from enacting, maintaining or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that would have the effect of controlling the amount of rent charged for privately owned residential or commercial property. Carve-outs: property the political subdivision owns, and voluntary agreements in exchange for local grants or incentives. Subsection (d) also forbids attaching rent-control conditions to building permits, plats, zoning changes, or conditional use permits. |
| Local rent regulation | Kansas law bars cities, counties, and other political subdivisions from controlling rents on privately owned residential or commercial property, with exceptions for government-owned property and voluntary incentive agreements. |
| Frequency limits | Not addressed by statute |
Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Kansas Rent Increase Notice Laws (verified July 11, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/kansas/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Kansas statute in the citations section below.
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Notes and caveats
- The 30-day figure is a derivation, not a rent-increase statute — The month-to-month notice figure is left empty on the same derivation logic used for Texas, Georgia and the Carolinas: K.S.A. 58-2570(b) addresses only termination of a month-to-month tenancy and never mentions rent increases, so page copy should present 30 days as the derivation it is — with the receipt-based clock and the rent-paying-date landing spot, both of which most guides omit. Week-to-week tenancies take 7 days under 58-2570(a).
- Preemption is express and statutory — K.S.A. 12-16,120 (L. 2001, ch. 134, § 2; amended L. 2016, ch. 104, § 4) covers residential AND commercial property, rent AND purchase price, and even bars rent-control conditions on zoning and permit approvals.
- Home rule does not get around it — Kan. Const. art. 12, § 5 gives cities constitutional home rule, but the charter-ordinance opt-out reaches only non-uniform state laws — and 12-16,120 applies uniformly to all political subdivisions, so localities cannot charter out.
- 2026 legislative climate — SB 391 (veto overridden March 2026) bars cities and counties from requiring landlords to accept housing-choice-voucher tenants — an adjacent enactment showing the preemption climate, with no effect on rent notice. No 2025-26 bill proposed rent control or increase-notice requirements; the biennium adjourned sine die 2026-04-11.
Common questions: Kansas 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 Kansas?
- No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
- Does Kansas have rent control?
- No — Kansas has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No statewide rent control exists, and every Kansas county, city and township is expressly barred from adopting any ordinance that would control rent on privately owned residential or commercial property.
- Does Kansas preempt local rent control ordinances?
- Kansas law bars cities, counties, and other political subdivisions from controlling rents on privately owned residential or commercial property, with exceptions for government-owned property and voluntary incentive agreements.
- Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Kansas?
- Rent cannot change during a fixed term unless the lease itself provides for it. That is a contract principle rather than a statute: no section of the Kansas Residential Landlord and Tenant Act addresses mid-term or renewal increases.
- How often can a landlord raise the rent in Kansas?
- Not addressed by statute.
Statute citations
- K.S.A. 58-2570 (b) (verified 2026) Official source
- K.S.A. 12-16,120 (verified 2026) Official source
- K.S.A. 58-2572 (a), (c) (verified 2026) Official source
How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes site (ksrevisor.gov), each section carrying a figure on this page read twice independently, with all figures reconciled verbatim: 58-2550 (1-month/1.5-month/half-month pet caps, 14-day and 30-day return clocks, 1.5x penalty), 58-2548 (5-day joint inventory), 58-2557 (reasonable notice/reasonable hours entry), 58-2570 (7-day/30-day/15-day termination notices), 58-2565(b) (30-day absence entry, 10-day abandonment presumption), 58-2564(b) (3-day nonpayment cure), 58-2563 (1.5 months' rent ouster remedy), and 12-16,120 (express local rent-control preemption). Negative checks run against the full Residential Landlord and Tenant Act: all 34 sections (58-2540 through 58-2573) downloaded and searched — no late-fee, grace-period, deposit-interest, escrow/separate-account, or rent-increase-notice provision exists. Pending-bill check 2026-07-11 on kslegislature.gov: 2025-26 biennium adjourned sine die 2026-04-11; HB 2666 (late-fee restrictions), SB 482 (condemned-unit deposit return), and HB 2768 (split rent payments) all died in committee; enacted Sub HB 2357 (eviction expungement) and SB 391 (voucher-mandate preemption) do not affect these four topics. Sight-confirmed 2026-07-12 on each bill's official history page (kslegislature.org/li/b2025_26/measures/): all three show 'Died in Committee' 2026-04-10 as the final entry.