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

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

Does Mississippi have rent control?

No — Mississippi has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Cities and counties are expressly barred as well. 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)).

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

Rent is locked for a definite term unless the lease provides otherwise. That is a contract principle rather than a statute — no section of chapter 89-8 addresses mid-term increases.

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

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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.

Cited to Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-19 (2)-(3) and 3 more Mississippi statutes · Verified July 11, 2026

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. That is a contract principle rather than a statute — no section of chapter 89-8 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	Cities and counties are expressly barred as well. 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)). County boards of supervisors are barred by the identical clause in 19-3-40(3)(g). The preemption is expressed through Mississippi's home-rule statutes rather than a dedicated act. 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 regulation	Mississippi law withholds from municipalities and counties the power to regulate, directly or indirectly, the amount of rent charged for private residential property unless the state legislature first approves, and no local rent control exists in the state.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

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Notes and caveats

The 30-day figure is a derivation, not a rent-increase statute — Section 89-8-19 addresses only termination of a tenancy and never mentions rent increases, which is why the notice field carries no figure. The 30 days (7 for week-to-week) should be presented as the derivation it is: the notice needed to end the tenancy, which a landlord proposing higher rent is effectively offering.
What the 2022 rewrite did — and did not — change — SB 2461 restated Section 89-8-19 in 2022, and the 30-day and 7-day figures came through unchanged. The act's only edit was 'health and safety' to 'health or safety' in the clause that requires no notice for a substantial violation.
Preemption is express, but it lives where nobody looks — The bar on local rent regulation is not in Title 89 at all — it sits inside the municipal and county home-rule powers statutes, 21-17-5(2)(h) and 19-3-40(3)(g). Both clauses are published in full on FindLaw and Justia; the official LexisNexis compilation serves no directly readable text for them.
The preemption covers residential rent only — Both clauses speak to private residential property. Neither mentions commercial rent.
2026 legislative climate — No rent-control or rent-stabilization bill appears anywhere in the 2026 session's official all-measures index, and the session adjourned in spring 2026.

Common questions: Mississippi rent increase notice

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How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Mississippi?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Mississippi have rent control?: No — Mississippi has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Cities and counties are expressly barred as well. 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)).
Does Mississippi preempt local rent control ordinances?: Mississippi law withholds from municipalities and counties the power to regulate, directly or indirectly, the amount of rent charged for private residential property unless the state legislature first approves, and no local rent control exists in the state.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Mississippi?: Rent is locked for a definite term unless the lease provides otherwise. That is a contract principle rather than a statute — no section of chapter 89-8 addresses mid-term increases.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Mississippi?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-19 (2)-(3) (verified 2026) Official source
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-5 (2)(h) (verified 2026) Official source
Miss. Code Ann. § 19-3-40 (3)(g) (verified 2026) Official source
Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-17 (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Mississippi's official code compilation is LexisNexis-published without directly readable section pages (lexisnexis.com/hottopics/mscode redirects to advance.lexis.com), so verification ran on directly published official 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 figure used here 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) read of the official Lexis compilation's search results sight-confirmed 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; complete Lexis sight-reads of 89-8-21/-13/-19 and the 21-17-5(2)(h) lettering remain pending, with the figures shown here resting on the reconciled official sources above.