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

Verified July 11, 2026 All Mississippi topics →

Mississippi has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase — the 30-day figure quoted for month-to-month tenancies is derived from Miss.

Code Ann. 89-8-19(3), which lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy on at least 30 days' written notice (7 days for week-to-week), so a landlord proposing higher rent is effectively offering new terms the tenant can refuse by leaving. There is no cap on the size or frequency of increases, no statewide rent control, and cities and counties are expressly barred by the home-rule statutes (21-17-5(2)(h) and 19-3-40(3)(g)) from regulating, directly or indirectly, the amount of rent charged for private residential property without prior legislative approval. During a fixed-term lease the rent cannot change unless the lease allows it; once the term expires the statute expressly permits the landlord to demand an increase, provided the demand is not retaliatory, and a holdover tenant who ignores a notice to vacate can be charged double rent under 89-8-45.

Mississippi 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 is locked for a definite term unless the lease provides otherwise — a contract principle; no section of the chapter addresses mid-term increases. After a definite-term agreement expires, Miss. Code Ann. 89-8-17 expressly lets the landlord demand an increase in rent (or recover possession, or decrease services) so long as the action's dominant purpose is not retaliation for the tenant's protected actions, and 89-8-45 (added 2022) lets the landlord charge a holdover tenant double rent, unless the lease says otherwise, for time in possession after a notice to vacate.
Statewide rent control / stabilization No
Rent control details No statewide rent control exists. Local rent regulation is expressly preempted through Mississippi's home-rule statutes rather than a dedicated act: municipalities may not, 'without prior legislative approval, regulate, directly or indirectly, the amount of rent charged for leasing private residential property in which the municipality does not have a property interest' (Miss. Code Ann. 21-17-5(2)(h)), and county boards of supervisors are barred by the identical clause in 19-3-40(3)(g). Two built-in softeners: the legislature could grant 'prior legislative approval' for a local program, and property in which the local government holds an interest is carved out.
Local rent control preempted Yes
Frequency limits Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

notice_days_month_to_month null per the TX/GA/NC/AZ/SC derivation convention: 89-8-19 addresses only termination and never mentions rent increases; page copy must present 30 days as the derivation it is. 89-8-19 double-read on two official sources (SB 2461 enrolled text, which restated the section in 2022, and the AG's PDF of the pre-2022 act — the 30/7-day figures are unchanged; the 2022 act only changed 'health and safety' to 'health or safety' in the no-notice-for-substantial-violation clause) plus FindLaw. Preemption is EXPRESS but lives where nobody looks — inside the municipal and county home-rule powers statutes, not Title 89; both clauses read verbatim on FindLaw and Justia (official Lexis compilation's full-text pages are CAPTCHA-gated as of the 2026-07-11 browser attempt; official-host confirmation of the (2)(h)/(3)(g) lettering remains a carry-forward). Preemption covers residential property only; it does not mention commercial rent. No rent-control or rent-stabilization bill appeared in the 2026 session sweep (full all-measures index searched; session adjourned spring 2026).

Statute citations

How this record was verified: Mississippi's official code compilation is LexisNexis-published and JS-rendered (lexisnexis.com/hottopics/mscode redirects to advance.lexis.com), so verification ran on official fetchable state sources reconciled with mirrors: enrolled session-law texts on the Legislature's billstatus.ls.state.ms.us (SB 2461/Laws 2022 ch. 501 eff. 2022-04-21; SB 2328/Laws 2025 ch. 460 eff. 2025-04-10; HB 1200/Laws 2025 ch. 474 eff. 2025-07-01; SB 2473/Laws 2018 ch. 446 eff. 2018-07-01) plus the MS Attorney General's consumer-guide PDF reproducing the full pre-2022 act text, each load-bearing figure reconciled verbatim against Justia (2025 code edition) and FindLaw (current through 2025-01-01): 45-day deposit return with its three-element trigger and $200 bad-faith penalty (89-8-21, unamended since Laws 1991 ch. 478 — three matching reads), 30-day month-to-month and 7-day week-to-week termination notice (89-8-19, three reads), 3-day nonpayment termination notice and 14-day cure notice (89-8-13, official + mirror), rent-definition late-fee clause (89-8-7(1)(k), official + AG PDF), and the municipal/county rent-regulation preemption clauses (21-17-5(2)(h) and 19-3-40(3)(g), FindLaw + Justia matching verbatim). Negative checks (no deposit cap, no interest/escrow, no entry statute, no late-fee statute, no rent-increase-notice statute) were run against the complete current chapter assembled from the AG PDF (pre-2022 sections) and all amending enrolled acts. Legislature per-section bill indexes swept for every 89-8 section, 2018-2026, and the full 2026 all-measures index searched: no live bills; HB 442, HB 499 and SB 2012 (2026) all died in committee 2026-02-03. A same-day (2026-07-11) in-app browser session reached the official Lexis compilation's search results, sight-confirming the chapter's current compiled span (§§ 89-8-1 — 89-8-45), the verbatim opening text of 89-8-21(1)-(2), and 89-8-13's post-2022 structure including the (5)(a) nonpayment clause; the full-text section pages are CAPTCHA-gated, so complete Lexis sight-reads of 89-8-21/-13/-19 and the 21-17-5(2)(h) lettering remain open carry-forwards, with the encoding resting on the reconciled official sources above.