How much notice is required to raise the rent in Texas?
Texas has no statute requiring a specific notice period for a rent increase in a rented home; for month-to-month tenancies the practical rule comes from the termination statute — unless the landlord and tenant have agreed on a different notice period in a document both of them signed, a month-to-month tenancy can be ended with a month's notice, so an increase is effectively a month's-notice proposition the tenant can accept or leave on.
Cited to Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001 and 1 more cited source · Verified October 1, 2026
A lot lease in a manufactured home community is different: a landlord offering to renew must state the proposed rent at least 60 days before the current term ends (Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055). Texas has no statewide rent control, and a city may adopt it only when its governing body finds a housing emergency caused by a disaster, and only with the governor's approval of the ordinance; the city codes of Houston, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, Corpus Christi, Plano and Laredo contain no rent-control ordinance.
Texas 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 is fixed for the lease term unless the lease provides otherwise; increases take effect at renewal. |
| Statewide rent control / stabilization | No |
| Rent control details | Texas has no statewide rent control, and local rent control is effectively prohibited except in narrow disaster circumstances with the governor's approval (Tex. Local Gov't Code § 214.902). |
| Local rent regulation | Texas law allows a city to adopt rent control only in a declared housing emergency caused by a disaster and only with the governor's approval of the ordinance, which must end when the disaster declaration ends. |
| Frequency limits | Not addressed by statute |
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Notes and caveats
- The empty answer is a finding: no rent-increase notice statute for a rented home — The month-to-month notice field is empty because no Texas statute sets a notice period for a rent increase in a rented home — there is no figure to record, rather than a figure the record is missing. A lot lease in a manufactured home community has its own 60-day renewal-offer rule (Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055).
- Where the one-month expectation actually comes from — The practical month's notice is derived from the termination mechanics of § 91.001 — for a month-to-month tenancy, the tenancy ends on the later of the day named in the notice or one month after the notice is given — not from any rent-increase statute. Those mechanics give way where the landlord and tenant have agreed, in a document both of them signed, on a different notice period or on no notice (§ 91.001(e)).
Common questions: Texas 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 Texas?
- No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
- Does Texas have rent control?
- No — Texas has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Texas has no statewide rent control, and local rent control is effectively prohibited except in narrow disaster circumstances with the governor's approval (Tex. Local Gov't Code § 214.902).
- Does Texas preempt local rent control ordinances?
- Texas law allows a city to adopt rent control only in a declared housing emergency caused by a disaster and only with the governor's approval of the ordinance, which must end when the disaster declaration ends.
- Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Texas?
- Rent is fixed for the lease term unless the lease provides otherwise; increases take effect at renewal.
- How often can a landlord raise the rent in Texas?
- Not addressed by statute.
Citations
- Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001 (verified 2026) Official source
- Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055 · (a)–(b) (verified 2026) Official source
How this record was verified: Web verification against the Texas State Law Library landlord-tenant guides (guides.sll.texas.gov, official state source summarizing Prop. Code ch. 92) and full statute text of Prop. Code §§ 92.019, 92.103, 92.104, 92.107, 92.109 via legal databases; statutes.capitol.texas.gov URLs cited for the official text. September 5, 2026 addendum: statutes.capitol.texas.gov stopped serving section text (it returns an application shell), so every statute citation on this record was re-pointed to the Texas Legislative Council's host at tcss.legis.texas.gov, and the eviction figures were re-read there the same day; the earlier reads stand as recorded. October 1, 2026: every section the security deposit, rent increase, late fee and entry answers rest on was read again on the Texas Legislative Council's host, tcss.legis.texas.gov, current through the 89th Legislature's 2nd Called Session (no session has met in 2026): Property Code section 91.001, chapter 92 (including sections 92.0081, 92.019, 92.0191, 92.101 to 92.113 and 92.351), sections 94.003, 94.004 and 94.055, and Local Government Code section 214.902. Rule 510 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure was read in the rules as the Supreme Court of Texas publishes them (last amended July 1, 2026).