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

Verified July 9, 2026 All Missouri topics →

Missouri has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase — the one-month figure everyone cites is derived from RSMo 441.060.4, which lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy by written notice taking effect on a periodic rent-paying date not less than one month after the notice is RECEIVED, so a landlord who raises rent is effectively offering new terms the tenant can refuse by leaving on a month's notice.

Note the two details the '30 days' shorthand misses: the clock runs from receipt of the written notice, not from sending, and termination must land on a rent-paying date, which can stretch the effective period past a calendar month. There is no cap on the size or frequency of increases, Missouri has no rent control, and RSMo 441.043 forbids counties and cities from regulating rents on private residential or commercial property — a preemption that was expanded in August 2025 to also block local source-of-income mandates, tenant-screening restrictions, local security-deposit caps, and mandatory rights of first refusal. Tenants who own their mobile home and rent the lot get sixty days' termination notice from the landlord under 441.060.4.

Missouri 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 — a contract principle; no RSMo section addresses mid-term or renewal increases.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No statewide rent control exists, and RSMo 441.043.1 forbids any county or city (including charter forms of government) from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing any ordinance or resolution 'which regulates the amount of rent to be charged for privately-owned, single-family, or multiple-unit residential or commercial rental property.' The preemption dates to 1989 (H.B. 602) and was substantially EXPANDED effective 2025-08-28 by H.B. 595 & 343: subsection 2 now also bars local ordinances that mandate acceptance of housing-assistance income (source-of-income protections), restrict landlords' customary tenant-screening criteria (credit, eviction history, criminal history), limit the amount of security deposit a landlord may require, or grant tenants an automatic right of first refusal. Exceptions cover government-owned property, voluntary agreements on subsidized properties, and CDBG-funded property.
Local rent control preempted	Yes
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

notice_days_month_to_month is null per the TX/GA/NC/AZ derivation convention: 441.060 addresses only termination and, per direct reads (twice, matched), 'contains no provisions addressing rent increase procedures or limitations' — the common '30 days notice to raise rent' claim (Hemlane says '30-60 days depending on the lease') is practice- and lease-derived, not statutory; page copy should present the one-month termination derivation with its two statutory refinements (receipt-based clock, periodic-rent-paying-date landing). 441.043 was double-read because its 2025 amendment (H.B. 595 & 343, effective 2025-08-28) is recent and materially expands preemption beyond rent control — this record incorporates it because it is already effective, and it overrides any lingering local ordinances (e.g., Kansas City's 2024 source-of-income ordinance was already struck down in court; St. Louis-area tenant-screening proposals are now preempted). Year-to-year tenancies terminate on sixty days' notice under RSMo 441.050 (not separately fetched this session — cite only 441.060 and 441.043 on-page). No 2026-session bill touching rent notice or rent control passed (TAFP list checked 2026-07-09).

Statute citations

RSMo 441.060 subsection 4 Official source
RSMo 441.043 subsections 1-2 Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Missouri Revisor of Statutes site (revisor.mo.gov): RSMo 535.300 read in full THREE times via independent fetches (all load-bearing figures — two months' cap, thirty-day return, written-notice inspection right, twice-the-amount-wrongfully-withheld penalty, subsection 8 definition — matched verbatim across reads), RSMo 441.060 and RSMo 441.043 each read twice (matched verbatim), plus single trap-check reads of RSMo 535.060 (demand of rent — confirmed it says nothing about late fees), RSMo 415.400 and 415.417 (confirmed the $20/20% late-fee figure belongs to the Self-Service Storage Facilities Act, not residential rentals), RSMo 441.233 (unlawful ouster), RSMo 441.065 (abandonment entry procedure), and the full chapter 441 section index (confirmed no entry-notice, late-fee, or rent-increase-notice section exists). 2026 regular session Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed list (102 bills) checked on senate.mo.gov 2026-07-09 — no landlord-tenant bills passed; the 2025 amendments to 441.043 (H.B. 595 & 343, effective 2025-08-28) are already law and are incorporated, not flagged.