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

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

Does Minnesota preempt local rent control ordinances?

Minnesota law generally prohibits cities, counties, and towns from controlling rents on private residential property, but expressly allows local rent control when the measure is approved by voters at a general election — the pathway under which St. Paul's voter-approved rent stabilization ordinance operates.

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

Rent cannot change during a fixed term unless the lease itself provides for it. That is a contract principle rather than a statute — no 504B section addresses mid-term increases.

How much notice is required to raise the rent 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 has no statute fixing a set number of days' notice for a rent increase — for month-to-month (at-will) tenancies the operative rule is derived from Minn. Stat. 504B.135, under which either party may end the tenancy on written notice at least as long as the rent interval (capped at three months), so the Attorney General's guidance pegs a valid rent increase at written notice of one rental period plus one day.

Cited to Minn. Stat. 504B.135 and 2 more Minnesota statutes · Verified July 9, 2026

Where a lease sets its own notice periods, Minn. Stat. 504B.147 forbids the landlord from giving a rent-increase notice on shorter notice than the lease demands of the tenant to quit, and that protection cannot be waived. There is no statewide rent control and no limit on the size or frequency of increases, but Minnesota does not flatly ban local rent control either: under Minn. Stat. 471.9996 a city, county, or town may control rents if — and only if — voters approve the measure in a general election, which is exactly how St. Paul enacted its 3% cap in 2021. Minneapolis voters authorized a rent-stabilization ordinance in 2021, but the city has never enacted one.

Minnesota 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 504B section addresses mid-term increases. Where a lease sets notice periods, Minn. Stat. 504B.147 (enacted 2019) forbids the landlord from giving a notice to quit OR A NOTICE OF RENT INCREASE shorter than the period the lease requires of the tenant for a notice of intention to quit, lets the tenant use whichever of the two lease periods is shorter, and voids any waiver as contrary to public policy.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	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.
Local rent regulation	Minnesota law generally prohibits cities, counties, and towns from controlling rents on private residential property, but expressly allows local rent control when the measure is approved by voters at a general election — the pathway under which St. Paul's voter-approved rent stabilization ordinance operates.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Minnesota Rent Increase Notice Laws (verified July 9, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-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.

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Notes and caveats

'One rental period plus one day' is a derivation, not a statute — Minn. Stat. 504B.135 addresses only TERMINATION — notice 'at least as long as the interval between the time rent is due or three months, whichever is less.' The rent-increase figure everyone quotes is the Attorney General's handbook derivation from that section, not a statutory day count, and it should be read that way.
504B.147 is a real rent-increase constraint, but sets no number — It pegs the landlord's minimum notice to the notice period the lease demands of the tenant, rather than supplying a fixed figure of its own.
Minnesota's preemption is conditional, not absolute — Under Minn. Stat. 471.9996, council-enacted rent control is void, but rent control approved by voters at a general election is expressly authorized — and one such ordinance, St. Paul's, is in force. Calling Minnesota a flat preemption state would misdescribe the law on the ground.
Trap: no statewide notice statute — and 504B.177 is not it — Several 2026-dated aggregator pages claim a statewide 'one rental period plus one day' STATUTE, or attribute rent-increase notice to Minn. Stat. 504B.177. Both are wrong; 504B.177 is the late-fee section.
Trap: the 60-day figure belongs to manufactured-home parks — The 60-day rent-increase notice some sites cite is the manufactured-home-park rule under Minn. Stat. ch. 327C, inapplicable to standard rentals.
Trap: 'Minnesota is banning rent control' — that bill died — HF 3245 (2025) would have repealed the 471.9996 voter-approval exception and killed St. Paul-style local rent control, which fueled the chatter. It died in the House Housing Finance and Policy Committee without a hearing when the 94th Legislature adjourned sine die on May 18, 2026, and 471.9996 was unchanged on revisor.mn.gov as of July 9, 2026.

Common questions: Minnesota 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 Minnesota?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Minnesota have rent control?: No — Minnesota has no statewide rent control or stabilization. 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.
Does Minnesota preempt local rent control ordinances?: Minnesota law generally prohibits cities, counties, and towns from controlling rents on private residential property, but expressly allows local rent control when the measure is approved by voters at a general election — the pathway under which St. Paul's voter-approved rent stabilization ordinance operates.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Minnesota?: Rent cannot change during a fixed term unless the lease itself provides for it. That is a contract principle rather than a statute — no 504B section addresses mid-term increases.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Minnesota?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

Minn. Stat. 504B.135 (verified 2026) Official source
Minn. Stat. 504B.147 (verified 2026) Official source
Minn. Stat. 471.9996 subds. 1-2 (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).