Does Vermont have rent control?

No — Vermont has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No rent control exists anywhere in Vermont — no statewide program and no municipal ordinance. Two notice-only overlays do exist, for age-restricted housing and for mobile home park lot rents, and in both an unnoticed increase is void.

Does Vermont preempt local rent control ordinances?

No Vermont statute expressly addresses local rent control; state law neither bars nor authorizes municipal rent regulation, and a municipality could act only through a charter change approved by the General Assembly.

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

During a fixed term rent can rise only if the lease itself provides for it — a unilateral mid-term increase would breach the contract. A renewal-time increase still needs 60 days' received written notice.

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

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Vermont landlords must give at least 60 days' actual notice of a rent increase, and the increase takes effect only on the first day of the rental period that follows those 60 days (9 V.S.A. 4455(b)) — one of the longer express rent-increase notice periods in the country.

Cited to 9 V.S.A. § 4455 (b) and 4 more Vermont statutes · Verified July 12, 2026

'Actual notice' is a defined term with teeth: it means the tenant's receipt of written notice, hand-delivered or mailed to the last known address, with a rebuttable presumption of receipt three days after first-class or certified mailing. The period-anchoring matters too: a notice given mid-period pushes the increase to the start of the next full rental period after day 60, not a floating 60 days out. There is no limit on the size or frequency of increases and no rent control anywhere in the state, though raising rent in retaliation for a tenant's code complaint, chapter-violation complaint, or tenant-union organizing is prohibited. Two special regimes add a state-notification layer: privately owned age-restricted housing must notify the Department of Housing and Community Development and all residents on a state form at least 60 days ahead, and mobile home park lot-rent increases have their own 60-day state-form notice — in both, an unnoticed increase is simply void. Vermont has no statute preempting local rent regulation, but a town would need a legislature-approved charter change to act, and none has one.

Vermont rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	60 days
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	During a fixed term rent can rise only if the lease itself provides for it — a unilateral mid-term increase would breach the contract. A renewal-time increase still needs 60 days' received written notice. 4455(b)'s command that an increase 'shall take effect on the first day of the rental period following no less than 60 days' actual notice' is written generally and is not limited to month-to-month tenancies. The 4454 anti-circumvention rule voids lease clauses that purport to waive or shorten the notice floor.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No rent control exists anywhere in Vermont — no statewide program and no municipal ordinance. Two notice-only overlays do exist, for age-restricted housing and for mobile home park lot rents, and in both an unnoticed increase is void. (1) Age-restricted housing (privately owned, not licensed as a long-term care or similar facility) requires written notice of any rent increase on a state form to the Department of Housing and Community Development AND all affected residents at least 60 days before the effective date, and an unnoticed increase is 'ineffective and unenforceable' (9 V.S.A. 4468a, effective 2024-06-17); (2) mobile home park LOT rents are a separate regime with their own 60-day state-form notice to the Commissioner and leaseholders, capital-improvement surcharge rules, and the same ineffective-if-unnoticed sanction (10 V.S.A. 6251 — lot rentals are excluded from chapter 137 by 4452(6)).
Local rent regulation	No Vermont statute expressly addresses local rent control; state law neither bars nor authorizes municipal rent regulation, and a municipality could act only through a charter change approved by the General Assembly.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Vermont Rent Increase Notice Laws (verified July 12, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/vermont/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Vermont statute in the citations section below.

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Notes and caveats

The 60 days is an express rent-increase statute, not a derivation — 4455(b) reaches 'an increase in rent' by name. The figure is not read across from a termination-notice provision, as it must be in many states.
The 60 days run from receipt, not from mailing — 'Actual notice' (4451(1)) means received written notice, and it carries the three-day mail presumption.
The increase is period-anchored, not a floating 60 days — It takes effect on the first day of the rental period following the 60 days — period-anchored, like South Dakota's month-end anchor, rather than 60 days out from the notice itself.
It is not only a month-to-month rule — The text is not limited to month-to-month tenancies: it governs whenever rent rises, including at renewal of a fixed term.
Unwaivable — 4454 voids any lease provision that tries to waive or shorten the notice floor.
Legacy trap: charts that still say 30 days — Pre-2000s-flavored charts occasionally give 30 days. The statute has said 60 since enactment (1985, No. 175 (Adj. Sess.)) and has never been amended; the acts-affecting table shows zero hits for 2025-2026.
Do not blend the 90-day no-cause tier into rent-increase copy — The no-cause termination notice — 4467(c), 60 days for tenancies of two years or less and 90 days for longer where there is no written agreement — is a different statute.
No preemption clause anywhere in Vermont law — There is no preemption provision in 9 V.S.A. ch. 137, nor in the Title 24 municipal-powers framework (24 V.S.A. 2291 enumeration; ch. 123 municipal housing codes). The legislature's design is affirmatively non-preemptive in the adjacent deposit space: 4461(g) invites supplemental local ordinances, and the Burlington and Brattleboro ordinances are live under it.
Dillon's rule is the real barrier — and Burlington has no just-cause law — Vermont is a Dillon's-rule state, so a municipality would need a General-Assembly-approved charter amendment to impose rent control or just-cause limits. Burlington's voter-approved just-cause charter change died by gubernatorial veto of H.708 in May 2022, the override failing by one vote, and has never been enacted; treat any claim that Burlington has just-cause eviction as false.
The 2025-2026 bills that would have changed this all died — S.91 and H.399, a 'tenant rights' omnibus that would have limited annual increases and created a rental registry and a Tenant's Rights Advocate, and H.440 on no-cause eviction limits, all died in their first committees; the biennium adjourned sine die.
Retaliation overlay — 4465(a) bars 'establishing or changing terms of a rental agreement' in retaliation, and 4465(c) adds a 90-day rebuttable presumption after a government code-noncompliance notice.
The age-restricted overlay many charts miss — 9 V.S.A. 4468a, added by 2023 Act 181 sec. 110 and effective 2024-06-17, is new enough that many summaries omit it. Its sanction is ineffectiveness of the increase, enforced without a penalty schedule.

Common questions: Vermont 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 Vermont?: 60 days.
Does Vermont have rent control?: No — Vermont has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No rent control exists anywhere in Vermont — no statewide program and no municipal ordinance. Two notice-only overlays do exist, for age-restricted housing and for mobile home park lot rents, and in both an unnoticed increase is void.
Does Vermont preempt local rent control ordinances?: No Vermont statute expressly addresses local rent control; state law neither bars nor authorizes municipal rent regulation, and a municipality could act only through a charter change approved by the General Assembly.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Vermont?: During a fixed term rent can rise only if the lease itself provides for it — a unilateral mid-term increase would breach the contract. A renewal-time increase still needs 60 days' received written notice.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Vermont?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

9 V.S.A. § 4455 (b) (verified 2026) Official source
9 V.S.A. § 4451 (1) (verified 2026) Official source
9 V.S.A. § 4468a (verified 2026) Official source
9 V.S.A. § 4465 (a) (verified 2026) Official source
10 V.S.A. § 6251 (a), (c) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Vermont General Assembly site (legislature.vermont.gov): the complete text of every section of 9 V.S.A. chapter 137 (4451 through 4475, all four subchapters) read twice via two independent official endpoints — the per-section pages and the full-chapter view — with every key figure (60 days' actual notice for rent increases in 4455(b); the 14-day deposit return clock, its discovery/noticed-vacate-date triggers, the 60-day seasonal clock, and the forfeiture-plus-willful-double penalty in 4461(c)-(e); the 48-hour / 9 AM-9 PM entry rule in 4460(b); the three-day mail-receipt presumption in 4451(1)) matching verbatim across both reads. 10 V.S.A. 6251 and a full sweep of 10 V.S.A. chapter 153 (mobile home parks) read for the note-only lot-rent regime. Session sweep run against the official 2025-2026 biennium data: all 178 regular acts, all 12 municipal (charter) acts, and all 13 vetoed bills enumerated, plus the official Acts-Affecting-VSA-Sections table (2,693 rows) filtered to Title 9 chapter 137 — exactly three hits, each verified in the enacted act text (Act 69 of 2025 sec. 10 amending 4456a; Act 103 of 2026 amending 4452(b) and cancelling its scheduled repeal, effective 2026-07-01; Act 176 of 2026 sec. 30 adding new 9 V.S.A. 4468b, effective 2026-07-01). Act 103 and Act 176 read from their official As Enacted PDFs; both postdate the statutes site's current text (the site still shows 4452(b) as repealed effective 2026-07-01 and lacks 4468b — flagged in notes). Verified negatives (no deposit cap, no state deposit-interest or separate-account rule, no late-fee or grace-period statute, no rent-control or preemption provision, no increase-frequency limit) established by the full-chapter double read plus a targeted Title 24 municipal-powers check (24 V.S.A. 2291; chapter 123). Late-fee case law (Highgate Associates, Ltd. v. Merryfield, 157 Vt. 313 (1991)) corroborated via the statewide CVOEO tenant-landlord guidance and multiple independent secondary descriptions; advance.lexis.com not used. Dead 2025-2026 bills (S.91, H.399, H.440) verified dead on their official bill-status pages; the biennium has adjourned sine die.