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

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

Does Missouri have rent control?

No — Missouri has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Cities and counties cannot fill the gap either. RSMo 441.043.1 forbids any county or city, including charter forms of government, from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing any ordinance or resolution regulating the amount of rent charged for private residential or commercial rental property.

Does Missouri preempt local rent control ordinances?

Missouri law prohibits counties and cities, including charter jurisdictions, from adopting any ordinance regulating the amount of rent charged for privately owned residential or commercial rental property, with narrow exceptions for government-owned, subsidized, and CDBG-assisted properties.

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

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

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

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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.

Cited to RSMo 441.060 subsection 4 and 1 more Missouri statute · Verified August 5, 2026

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. One mobile-home-specific rule rides in the same section: a tenant who owns the mobile home and rents the lot it sits on gets a longer landlord termination notice under 441.060.4(2) — the tenancy may not end sooner than sixty days from the date the next rent payment comes due, and a lease clause promising an earlier termination does not override it.

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. That is a contract principle rather than a statute — no RSMo section addresses mid-term or renewal increases.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	Cities and counties cannot fill the gap either. RSMo 441.043.1 forbids any county or city, including charter forms of government, from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing any ordinance or resolution regulating the amount of rent charged for private residential or commercial rental property. The statutory words are '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 regulation	Missouri law prohibits counties and cities, including charter jurisdictions, from adopting any ordinance regulating the amount of rent charged for privately owned residential or commercial rental property, with narrow exceptions for government-owned, subsidized, and CDBG-assisted properties.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Missouri Rent Increase Notice Laws (verified August 5, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/missouri/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Missouri statute in the citations section below.

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Notes and caveats

Missouri has no rent-increase notice statute — 441.060 addresses only termination of a tenancy and 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, which is why no statutory notice figure is shown here rather than a filled-in 30.
The one-month figure is a termination derivation with two refinements — The usable number is derived from the month-to-month termination rule, and two statutory details survive the '30 days' shorthand: the clock runs from RECEIPT of the written notice, not from sending, and the termination must land on a periodic rent-paying date.
The 2025 preemption expansion is already in force — H.B. 595 & 343, effective 2025-08-28, materially expanded 441.043's preemption beyond rent control. It is already law and is incorporated in the figures here, and it overrides lingering local ordinances: Kansas City's 2024 source-of-income ordinance had already been struck down in court, and St. Louis-area tenant-screening proposals are now preempted.
Year-to-year tenancies take sixty days' notice — RSMo 441.050 sets sixty days to terminate a year-to-year tenancy — a separate section from the month-to-month rule that supplies the one-month figure, and it is not separately covered here.
The sixty-day figure is the mobile-home-lot rule, not a general notice period — 441.060.4(2) applies only when the tenant owns the mobile home and leases the land or lot under it: the landlord may terminate a tenancy of less than one year only by written notice taking effect not sooner than sixty days from the date the rent payment next becomes due, notwithstanding any contrary lease provision. Ordinary month-to-month tenants remain under the one-month rule of 441.060.4(1), and mobile-home-park eviction procedure is a separate scheme not covered here.
No 2026-session bill changed rent notice or rent control — No bill touching rent-increase notice or rent control was Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed in the 2026 regular session, and the Governor's action deadline for that session has passed.

Common questions: Missouri 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 Missouri?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Missouri have rent control?: No — Missouri has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Cities and counties cannot fill the gap either. RSMo 441.043.1 forbids any county or city, including charter forms of government, from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing any ordinance or resolution regulating the amount of rent charged for private residential or commercial rental property.
Does Missouri preempt local rent control ordinances?: Missouri law prohibits counties and cities, including charter jurisdictions, from adopting any ordinance regulating the amount of rent charged for privately owned residential or commercial rental property, with narrow exceptions for government-owned, subsidized, and CDBG-assisted properties.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Missouri?: Rent cannot change during a fixed term unless the lease itself provides for it. That is a contract principle rather than a statute — no RSMo section addresses mid-term or renewal increases.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Missouri?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

RSMo 441.060 subsection 4 (verified 2026) Official source
RSMo 441.043 subsections 1-2 (verified 2026) 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 reads (every figure it supplies — 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 and DEFINITIVELY re-swept 2026-07-16 after the Governor's ~July 15 action deadline (full list re-read directly; zero landlord-tenant bills; nearest property-adjacent bills eyeballed and confirmed out of scope — SB 973 is real-estate taxes/land banks/wholesaler disclosures plus a new ch. 442 sale-leaseback disclosure act, HB 2636 is the Uniform Mortgage Modification Act, both signed, eff. 2026-08-28); the 2025 amendments to 441.043 (H.B. 595 & 343, effective 2025-08-28) are already law and are incorporated, not flagged. The 2026 TAFP gate is CLOSED as a confirmed negative.