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

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

Does Tennessee have rent control?

No — Tennessee has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Tennessee has no rent control and no cap on the size or frequency of rent increases. Local rent control is barred statewide: T.C.A. § 66-35-102(a) applies in all 95 counties and blocks local ordinances controlling residential or commercial rent.

Does Tennessee preempt local rent control ordinances?

Tennessee law bars local governments from adopting any ordinance or resolution that controls the amount of rent charged for private residential or commercial property.

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

No statute addresses rent changes for any lease type. Fixed-term rent is locked by contract unless the lease provides otherwise; at renewal the landlord may propose any rent.

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

Verified October 2, 2026 7 statements held All Tennessee topics →

What did not become law. None of the following is law; failed bills are sometimes still described as if enacted:

SB 961 / HB 955 (114th General Assembly) — 'Affordable Housing and Tenant Protection Act' — Would repeal the residential half of the rent-control preemption in T.C.A. § 66-35-102, allowing local rent control adopted by a two-thirds vote with a local rent agency, plus a THDA gap-financing program. Would end the statewide preemption of local residential rent regulation if ever enacted. Status: Not enacted. HB 955 was deferred in the House Cities & Counties Subcommittee to the 'January 2027 calendar' on 2026-03-18, and the Senate companion, SB 961, was assigned to the General Subcommittee of the Senate State and Local Government Committee on 2026-03-24 — with the 114th GA adjourned sine die, this is effectively a soft kill; watch for a 115th GA refile. (checked October 1, 2026).

Tennessee has no statute requiring notice of a rent increase, no limit on how large an increase can be, and no limit on how often rent can rise — the practical floor in the state's 17 large URLTA counties is the month-to-month termination rule, under which either party can end the tenancy on 30 days' written notice before the periodic rental date, so a rent increase works as an offer the tenant can refuse by leaving (week-to-week tenancies: 10 days).

Cited to T.C.A. § 66-28-512 (b) and 5 more cited sources · Verified October 2, 2026, 7 statements held at an earlier date

In the other 78 counties even that floor is common law rather than statute. Rent control is off the table everywhere: a statewide statute that applies in all 95 counties bars local governments from controlling residential or commercial rents, a companion provision bans mandatory inclusionary zoning, and since 2021 the URLTA has also occupied and preempted the entire field of landlord-tenant legislation in URLTA counties. A repeal bill allowing local rent control by two-thirds local vote was deferred to a post-adjournment calendar in March 2026 — effectively shelved.

Tennessee 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	No statute addresses rent changes for any lease type. Fixed-term rent is locked by contract unless the lease provides otherwise; at renewal the landlord may propose any rent.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	Tennessee has no rent control and no cap on the size or frequency of rent increases. Local rent control is barred statewide: T.C.A. § 66-35-102(a) applies in all 95 counties and blocks local ordinances controlling residential or commercial rent. Title 66, Chapter 35 is not part of the URLTA, which is why it reaches every county, including the 76 that the URLTA never touches. Subsection (b) (2018, amended 2024) also bans mandatory inclusionary zoning, with a 2024 carve-out for voluntary attainable-housing incentive programs, alongside the subsection's private damages action for violations. In URLTA counties, § 66-28-102(e) (2021) separately provides that the URLTA occupies and preempts the entire field of legislation concerning the regulation of landlords and tenants, and bars the county's governing body from enacting or enforcing regulations that conflict with or add to it.
Local rent regulation	Tennessee law bars local governments from adopting any ordinance or resolution that controls the amount of rent charged for private residential or commercial property.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Tennessee Rent Increase Notice Laws (verified October 2, 2026; held statements carry their own dates), landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/tennessee/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

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Notes and caveats

Why the notice-days field is blank — No Tennessee statute requires notice of a rent increase, so the field is empty rather than zero. The nearest thing is the 30-day month-to-month termination notice of § 66-28-512(b) — URLTA counties only, given before the periodic rental date — which is a termination rule the increase rides on, not a rent-increase rule.
Nashville's rent-increase notice ordinance — Nashville's Metropolitan Code § 11.22.010 (2020) still prints a rent-increase notice requirement for residential leases entered into on or after July 1, 2020. Since July 1, 2021, § 66-28-102(e) has barred the governing body of a county where the URLTA applies, Davidson County among them, from enacting or enforcing regulations that conflict with or add to the URLTA, and Metro Code § 11.22.040 says state law prevails where the two conflict. The statute's text does not say whether that ordinance can still be enforced.
The 2010-census freeze makes the URLTA county list static — The 17 counties are Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Davidson, Hamilton, Knox, Madison, Maury, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sevier, Shelby, Sullivan, Sumner, Washington, Williamson, and Wilson.
The roster comes from the 2010 census counts — The 17 names are the counties whose population in the 2010 federal census, as published by the Census Bureau, is more than 75,000; the General Assembly's Fiscal Review Committee also counted 17 counties under the Act in 2021. Putnam County (72,321 in 2010) and Greene County (68,831) fall below the line and have been outside the Act since 2012 Pub. Ch. 847 raised the threshold from 68,000 to 75,000.

Common questions: Tennessee 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 Tennessee?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Tennessee have rent control?: No — Tennessee has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Tennessee has no rent control and no cap on the size or frequency of rent increases. Local rent control is barred statewide: T.C.A. § 66-35-102(a) applies in all 95 counties and blocks local ordinances controlling residential or commercial rent.
Does Tennessee preempt local rent control ordinances?: Tennessee law bars local governments from adopting any ordinance or resolution that controls the amount of rent charged for private residential or commercial property.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Tennessee?: No statute addresses rent changes for any lease type. Fixed-term rent is locked by contract unless the lease provides otherwise; at renewal the landlord may propose any rent.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Tennessee?: Not addressed by statute.

Statements held at an earlier date

Tennessee publishes its code only on a site whose terms do not allow automated reading, so this page is verified on the acts the legislature publishes and on court and agency sources. The 7 statements below rest on text only the code prints. Each keeps the date it was last verified; every other statement on this page was confirmed on October 2, 2026 ( how held statements work).

Outside the counties the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act covers, no Tennessee statute sets a deposit rule, caps a late fee, requires notice of a rent increase or governs a landlord's entry, and no provision anywhere restricts the hours of entry. T.C.A. Title 66, chapter 7 (the list of sections) · last verified July 9, 2026
The act applies only in counties with a population of more than 75,000 on the 2010 federal census. T.C.A. § 66-28-102(a) · last verified July 9, 2026
No other subsection extends the act to a smaller county or takes a larger one out of it, which leaves the 17 census counties. T.C.A. § 66-28-102 (the subsections after (a)) · last verified July 9, 2026
The subsection under which the act occupies and preempts the entire field of landlord and tenant regulation in its counties carries the letter (e). T.C.A. § 66-28-102(e) · last verified July 9, 2026
Nothing else in the act speaks to late fees, deposit penalties, rent-increase notice or limits, or entry hours or notice. T.C.A. Title 66, chapter 28 (the list of sections) · last verified July 9, 2026
Either party can end a month-to-month tenancy on 30 days' written notice before the periodic rental date, and a week-to-week tenancy on 10 days. T.C.A. § 66-28-512(b) · last verified July 9, 2026
Local governments may not adopt an ordinance or resolution that controls the amount of rent charged for private residential or commercial property. T.C.A. § 66-35-102(a) · last verified August 12, 2026

Citations

T.C.A. § 66-28-512 · (b) (verified 2026) Official source
T.C.A. § 66-35-102 · (a)-(b) (verified 2026) Official source
2021 Pub. Ch. 182 (official session law — census freeze and county field preemption, eff. 2021-07-01) (verified 2026) Official source
U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 census county populations, Tennessee (CENSUS2010POP column) (verified 2026) Official source
2012 Pub. Ch. 847 (official session law raising the § 66-28-102(a) threshold from 68,000 to 75,000 on the 2010 census) · § 1 (verified 2026) Official source
Metropolitan Code of Nashville and Davidson County ch. 11.22 (notice of a rent increase; conflict with state law) · §§ 11.22.010, 11.22.040 (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Tennessee's official code is published via LexisNexis without stable deep links (GA-class sourcing situation), so verification pairs current code mirrors with official session-law PDFs from the Tennessee Secretary of State: T.C.A. §§ 66-28-102, 66-28-201, 66-28-301, 66-28-403, 66-28-512, and 66-35-102 read verbatim on the Justia 2024-edition and FindLaw (current through 2024-01-02) mirrors — §§ 66-28-102, 66-28-201, and 66-28-403 each read twice independently, with the reads matching — with every recent amendment traced to the official act text: 2011 Pub. Ch. 272 (inspection scheme, late-fee rule, entry rewrite), 2012 Pub. Chs. 847 and 887, 2013 Pub. Ch. 206, and 2021 Pub. Ch. 182 (census freeze + county preemption), all read from publications.tnsosfiles.com PDFs. Bill statuses (SB 961/HB 955 et al.) checked on official capitol.tn.gov pages 2026-07-09. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — § 66-35-102 as amended by 2024 Public Chapter 1051 and § 66-28-302 as amended by 2024 Public Chapter 907, from the enrolled acts on publications.tnsosfiles.com; the earlier reads stand as recorded. October 2026: the deposit, rent increase, late fee and entry answers were read again on the public chapters the Secretary of State publishes on publications.tnsosfiles.com (2008 Pub. Ch. 1067, 2011 Pub. Ch. 272, 2012 Pub. Chs. 847 and 887, 2013 Pub. Ch. 206, 2016 Pub. Ch. 822, 2018 Pub. Ch. 685, 2019 Pub. Ch. 236, 2021 Pub. Ch. 182, 2024 Pub. Chs. 907 and 1051), with the General Assembly's Legislative Record and act lists through the 114th General Assembly for later amendments, the Census Bureau's 2010 county counts for the counties the act covers (17, not the 19 these four pages had listed), and the Metropolitan Code of Nashville. The code itself was not opened for that reading, and no public chapter sets out subsections (a), (d) and (f) of section 66-28-301, subsection (b) of section 66-28-512 or subsection (a) of section 66-35-102. The statements that rest on text only the code prints are held: each is listed with the date it was last verified. Every other statement on the deposit, rent increase, late fee and entry pages was confirmed on October 2, 2026.