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?

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Measure that did not become law. The following recent proposal failed and is not law — noted here because 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 flip local_control_preempted for residential property 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 — with the 114th GA adjourned sine die, this is effectively a soft kill; watch for a 115th GA refile. (checked 2026-07-09).

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 19 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 (current-code mirror) (b) and 2 more Tennessee statutes · Verified July 9, 2026

In the other 76 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 state has also preempted the entire field of county landlord-tenant regulation 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, though refiling is likely.

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 and a private damages action for violations. In URLTA counties, § 66-28-102(e) (2021) separately preempts the entire field of county landlord-tenant regulation.
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 July 9, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/tennessee/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Tennessee statute 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.
Trap — the claimed Nashville 60-day notice — Blog posts claiming Nashville/Davidson County imposes a 60-day rent-increase notice cite no ordinance and are inconsistent with both the § 66-35-102 rent-control preemption and the § 66-28-102(e) field preemption. Treat it as misinformation.
The 2010-census freeze makes the URLTA county list static — The 19 counties are Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Davidson, Greene, Hamilton, Knox, Madison, Maury, Montgomery, Putnam, Rutherford, Sevier, Shelby, Sullivan, Sumner, Washington, Williamson, and Wilson.
That roster is a derivation, not an official list — The 19 names are corroborated from Westlaw-derived annotations rather than published as an official roster, so rely on the rule — more than 75,000 people in the 2010 census — rather than treating the list itself as guaranteed.

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.

Statute citations

T.C.A. § 66-28-512 (current-code mirror) (b) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
T.C.A. § 66-35-102 (current-code mirror) (a)-(b) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
2021 Pub. Ch. 182 (official session law — census freeze and county field preemption, eff. 2021-07-01) (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.