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 for tenancies generally. The one statute that limits rent increases, RSMo 700.600.2, reaches only a manufactured or mobile home land lease community: the landlord may not raise the rent of a tenant who owns the home, except for an increase based solely on an increase in property taxes, during the sixty days before giving notice that residents must vacate for a change in use of the property or at any time after that notice.

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 2 more cited sources · Verified October 2, 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 (apart from a freeze in a manufactured or mobile home land lease community, where RSMo 700.600 bars any increase other than one based solely on higher property taxes in the sixty days before a change-of-use notice and at any time after it), 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 ordinances requiring landlords to accept housing-assistance income, 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 for tenancies generally. The one statute that limits rent increases, RSMo 700.600.2, reaches only a manufactured or mobile home land lease community: the landlord may not raise the rent of a tenant who owns the home, except for an increase based solely on an increase in property taxes, during the sixty days before giving notice that residents must vacate for a change in use of the property or at any time after that notice.
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, that restrict a landlord's use of income-qualifying methods, credit scores, credit reports, eviction or property damage history, or criminal history under the landlord's own customarily applied criteria — or that bar the landlord from asking for that information — that limit the amount of security deposit a landlord may require, or that give tenants an automatic right of first refusal. Exceptions cover government-owned property, voluntary agreements on subsidized properties, and property assisted with community development block grant funds, and the section expressly leaves a city or county free to bar discrimination against a tenant who receives veterans' benefits.
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

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Notes and caveats

Missouri has no rent-increase notice statute — 441.060 addresses the termination of tenancies (with an occupancy limit and the enforcement of possession judgments) and contains no provisions addressing rent increase procedures or limitations. The common '30 days notice to raise rent' claim — some summaries say '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. Because the section bars a county or city from enacting, maintaining or enforcing such an ordinance, a local ordinance on these subjects adopted before August 28, 2025 can no longer be enforced.
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). Missouri has no separate eviction procedure for manufactured-home communities: the general procedures of chapters 534 and 535 apply, and RSMo 700.600 adds a notice of at least one hundred twenty days before residents who own their homes must vacate for a change in use of the property.
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 for tenancies generally. The one statute that limits rent increases, RSMo 700.600.2, reaches only a manufactured or mobile home land lease community: the landlord may not raise the rent of a tenant who owns the home, except for an increase based solely on an increase in property taxes, during the sixty days before giving notice that residents must vacate for a change in use of the property or at any time after that notice.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Missouri?: Not addressed by statute.

Citations

RSMo 441.060 · subsection 4 (verified 2026) Official source
RSMo 441.043 · subsections 1-2 (verified 2026) Official source
RSMo 700.600 · 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), read again on October 2, 2026 with each page's effective date and history line: RSMo 535.300, 441.043, 441.050, 441.060 and 700.600; 535.060, 415.400 and 415.417; 441.020 to 441.040, 441.065, 441.233 and 441.560; the rent and possession and unlawful detainer sections of chapters 535 and 534, with 535.012, 535.050, 535.200 and 535.210; the expedited procedure of 441.710 to 441.880; 701.308; and the time-computation sections 1.040 and 506.060. The section lists of chapters 441, 534, 535 and 700 were read for the negative answers: no section of chapters 441, 534 or 535 sets an entry notice, a late fee or a rent-increase notice, and the one limit on rent increases is RSMo 700.600.2, for manufactured and mobile home land lease communities. The Senate's Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed lists for 2024, 2025 and 2026 (102 bills in 2026) were read with the bills' pages and truly agreed texts: no 2026 act changed an answer on security deposits, late fees, entry, rent increases or eviction, and the 2025 amendments to 441.043 (H.B. 595 & 343, effective August 28, 2025) are in force and incorporated. Paragon Group, Inc. v. Ampleman, 878 S.W.2d 878 (Mo. Ct. App. 1994), was read in the reporter.