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

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

Does Wisconsin have rent control?

No — Wisconsin has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Wisconsin has no rent control at any level. State law sets no limit on rent, and Wis. Stat. 66.1015(1) preempts local control: 'No city, village, town or county may regulate the amount of rent or fees charged for the use of a residential rental dwelling unit.'.

Does Wisconsin preempt local rent control ordinances?

Wisconsin law bars every city, village, town, and county from regulating the amount of rent or fees charged for residential rental units, except for housing the local government itself owns or operates or regulates by voluntary agreement.

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

Rent is fixed for the lease term unless the lease itself provides otherwise. That is a contract principle: neither ch. 704 nor ATCP 134 addresses mid-term or renewal increases.

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

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Wisconsin has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase — the 28-day figure commonly quoted for month-to-month tenancies is derived from Wis. Stat. 704.19(3), which requires at least 28 days' written notice to terminate a periodic tenancy, so a landlord who wants higher rent effectively proposes new terms the tenant can decline by leaving on 28 days' notice (tenancies with rent payable more often than monthly need only notice equal to the rent-paying period).

Cited to Wis. Stat. 704.19 (2)-(3) and 3 more Wisconsin statutes · Verified August 5, 2026

Fixed-term leases lock the rent unless the lease says otherwise. There is no cap on the size or frequency of increases: Wisconsin has no rent control, and Wis. Stat. 66.1015 flatly forbids every city, village, town, and county from regulating residential rents. The one hard statutory limit is retaliation — under Wis. Stat. 704.45 a landlord may not raise rent because a tenant made a good-faith code complaint, complained about repairs, or exercised a legal tenant right.

Wisconsin 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 itself provides otherwise. That is a contract principle: neither ch. 704 nor ATCP 134 addresses mid-term or renewal increases.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	Wisconsin has no rent control at any level. State law sets no limit on rent, and Wis. Stat. 66.1015(1) preempts local control: 'No city, village, town or county may regulate the amount of rent or fees charged for the use of a residential rental dwelling unit.' Narrow carve-outs in 66.1015(2) cover housing the municipality or a housing authority itself owns/operates or voluntary agreements with private parties; 66.1015(3) separately bans inclusionary zoning. Wis. Stat. 66.0104 adds a broader preemption belt around local landlord-tenant ordinances generally (screening, deposits, inspections, disclosures).
Local rent regulation	Wisconsin law bars every city, village, town, and county from regulating the amount of rent or fees charged for residential rental units, except for housing the local government itself owns or operates or regulates by voluntary agreement.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

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Notes and caveats

The blank field means no rent-increase statute at all — Wis. Stat. 704.19 addresses only TERMINATION of a periodic tenancy and contains no provision addressing rent increases — so the 28-day figure is practice-derived, not a statutory notice period. Many summaries state flatly that 28 days' notice is required to raise rent; the derivation is what the law actually supports.
ATCP 134 has no rent-increase provision either — ATCP 134.09 covers entry, late fees, retaliation, self-help and more, but none of its subsections addresses rent increases.
Retaliatory increases are prohibited — Wis. Stat. 704.45(1) bars raising rent in retaliation for a good-faith code complaint, a 704.07 repair complaint, or the exercise of a legal tenant right, and 704.44(1m) voids any lease clause purporting to authorize such retaliation.
Preemption trap for local-rule believers — Madison's and Milwaukee's stricter tenant ordinances were largely gutted by the 2011-2018 preemption wave (2011 Act 108/143, 2013 Act 76, 2015 Act 176, 2017 Act 317), carried chiefly by Wis. Stat. 66.0104 — the general ban on local landlord-tenant ordinances — plus Wis. Stat. 66.1010, a separate 2011 Act 143 section barring local eviction moratoriums. Both are distinct from the rent-control preemption of 66.1015, which dates to 1991 and predates the wave. Local ordinances are out of scope for this page, but the state-law floor is now effectively also the ceiling.
Dead bills: nothing recent changed any of this — 2023 AB 877 (repeal of 66.1015) and the 2025-26 session's landlord-tenant bills all died — the 2025-26 Legislature adjourned sine die with bills failing 2026-03-23 pursuant to SJR 1 — and AB 202, which would have exempted rentals from the Wisconsin Consumer Act and rewritten the 704.44 void-lease remedy, was VETOED. None is flagged as pending.

Common questions: Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Wisconsin have rent control?: No — Wisconsin has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Wisconsin has no rent control at any level. State law sets no limit on rent, and Wis. Stat. 66.1015(1) preempts local control: 'No city, village, town or county may regulate the amount of rent or fees charged for the use of a residential rental dwelling unit.'.
Does Wisconsin preempt local rent control ordinances?: Wisconsin law bars every city, village, town, and county from regulating the amount of rent or fees charged for residential rental units, except for housing the local government itself owns or operates or regulates by voluntary agreement.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Wisconsin?: Rent is fixed for the lease term unless the lease itself provides otherwise. That is a contract principle: neither ch. 704 nor ATCP 134 addresses mid-term or renewal increases.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Wisconsin?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

Wis. Stat. 704.19 (2)-(3) (verified 2026) Official source
Wis. Stat. 66.1015 (1)-(3) (verified 2026) Official source
Wis. Stat. 66.0104 (verified 2026) Official source
Wis. Stat. 704.45 (1) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute and administrative code text on the official Wisconsin Legislature site (docs.legis.wisconsin.gov, which officially hosts both Wis. Stats. and Wis. Admin. Code): Wis. Stat. 704.28, 704.05(2), 704.19, and Wis. Admin. Code ATCP 134.06 and ATCP 134.09 each read TWICE via alternate stable deep links — all key figures (21-day deposit return and its three trigger events, 12-hour entry notice, 28-day periodic-tenancy termination notice, 7-day check-in window, the three late-fee paragraphs of ATCP 134.09(8)) matched verbatim across both reads. Also read in full once: Wis. Stat. 100.20(5), 704.95, 704.44, 704.45, 704.08, 704.10, 704.17(1g), 66.1015, 66.0104, and ATCP 134.01/134.02(11) (scope and 'security deposit' definition). Pending-bill statuses checked on docs.legis.wisconsin.gov 2026-07-09: the 2025-26 Legislature adjourned sine die and all landlord-tenant bills (AB 1064 application fees, AB 1048 repeal of 66.0104) failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1 on 2026-03-23; AB 202 (Wisconsin Consumer Act exemption / void-lease remedy rewrite) passed both houses but was VETOED, so no 2025-26 enactment changes any field.