No increase during a lease term

Your rent is a term of your lease. Arizona law lets you and your landlord agree on rent, how long your lease lasts, and other terms when you sign it.

During a fixed lease term, your rent is locked. Your landlord cannot raise your rent in the middle of the term unless you agree or your lease itself allows the change.

Check your lease for an escalation clause (lease words letting your landlord raise rent for certain costs). It can cover utilities (such as water, electric, or gas), taxes, or insurance. If your lease has one, a mid-lease raise under it can be legal.

If you have a lease, your rent stays the same until the lease term ends. Your landlord can raise rent during the lease only if the lease has a tax escalator clause (adds a tax increase to your rent).

Your landlord cannot raise your rent in the middle of a fixed-term lease. A fixed-term lease has a set end date, for example a 1-year lease. The new rent can start only after the lease ends. This rule comes from Illinois law and applies in Chicago.

Your landlord can raise your rent only once in any 12-month period you live there. This is true whether or not you have a written lease. It does not matter how long you have rented there. It also does not matter if your rental has a fixed end date, is month-to-month, or has no end date at all.

The rent increase notice law does not give your landlord any right to raise your rent while your current lease term is still running. It also does not replace any separate notice you must get under federal law.

A Georgia landlord can raise the rent during a lease only if the lease says that may happen. The lease sets whether the landlord can raise rent and how often.

Before you sign a lease, ask about automatic rent increases during the lease term. The Georgia handbook lists them among the lease terms to ask about.

A written lease should make the rent amount clear. The Georgia handbook says to check that the rent cannot be increased during the lease term.

If an apartment complex changes owners, the new owners are generally bound by the existing leases. They cannot raise rents or change rules under those leases.

Good business practice, says the Idaho Attorney General, is to not change lease terms until the lease ends or the tenant agrees. The law does not require this.

If you have a written lease for a set term, such as 1 year, your rent stays the same until that term ends. Your landlord cannot raise it in the middle of the lease unless the lease itself allows a raise during the term.

If you have a lease for a set length of time, your new rent cannot take effect until that lease ends. This also applies to any renewal or extension of that lease.

Your rent is one of the terms you and your landlord agree to in your lease. Kansas law lets you and your landlord set the rent and the length of the agreement yourselves when you sign the lease.

In Louisiana, a lease is a contract. Your landlord agrees to let you use your home for a set time, and you agree to pay the rent in that contract. Your landlord cannot raise that rent before your lease ends unless your lease itself allows an increase.

If your lease lets you renew at a set rent, Louisiana law keeps that rent when you use the choice. Your landlord cannot charge more than what it says.

Your lease may be for a set term of a month or longer. If that term ends and you stay 1 more week without your landlord objecting, Louisiana law renews your lease on its own. Your old rent and other terms continue, now under a new month-to-month lease.

Your landlord can only raise your rent when your lease is renewed, not while your current lease is still running. If you have a lease for a set time, like 1 year, your rent stays the same until that lease ends. It will not change until you sign a new one.

If you have a lease for a set time, your landlord usually cannot raise your rent until the lease ends. This rule does not apply if your lease has a tax escalator clause (a clause that raises rent when property taxes go up).

If you have a lease for a set time, like 1 year, Michigan law limits how your landlord can change it. Your landlord cannot change your rent or any other lease term once the lease starts, without your written approval. Only a few special cases in Michigan law let your landlord change your rent without asking first, and each has its own rules.

If you agree in writing to a new rent amount before it takes effect, your landlord can raise your rent during the lease. This is true even if the change does not fit one of the few special cases Michigan law otherwise allows without your written approval.

One special case lets your landlord raise your rent during the lease to cover higher costs of running the building. This covers higher property taxes and higher insurance costs for the building. It also covers higher costs for utilities (water, electric, gas, heat, sewer) that the landlord pays for the building. Your landlord cannot use this reason to raise your rent for anything else.

Your lease might have a clause letting your landlord change your rent without your written approval. If that clause does not fit one of the few special cases the law allows, a Michigan court will not enforce it. Your landlord cannot rely on that clause alone to make the increase valid, even if you signed the lease.

Michigan's rule against changing your rent without your written approval only covers a written lease. That lease must have terms beyond just your name, the home's address, how long the lease lasts, your rent amount, and when it is due. It does not cover a bare written agreement with only those basic terms, or an agreement that is not in writing at all.

If you let someone else move in and take over your rent payments, ask your landlord first. Without that approval, Missouri law allows your landlord to double your rent. For example, if your rent is $800 a month, your landlord could raise it to $1,600.

While a fixed-term lease is running, your rent stays at the amount in the lease. Your landlord cannot raise it before the lease ends unless both you and your landlord agree. A 1-year lease at $1,500 stays at $1,500 for all 12 months.

If you sign a lease for a set amount of time, Oklahoma law says the lease keeps running until the date it states. Your landlord does not have to give you notice before it ends. The lease stays in place unless you both agree otherwise, or Oklahoma's landlord-tenant law lets your landlord end it early.

In Oregon, your landlord cannot raise your rent during your first year in the home. This rule does not cover week-to-week renters.

While a fixed lease runs, the rent stays what the lease says. The landlord can raise it early only if the lease allows it or you agree to the change in writing.

Generally, your landlord cannot change the rent until your lease renews, unless you both agree in writing. Check your lease for the renewal date. Some leases renew automatically unless you or your landlord give notice by a set date. Read your lease closely to find that date.

Your landlord cannot raise your rent at all during the first 12 months of your rental.

Your landlord cannot raise your rent in the middle of a fixed-term lease. If your agreement is month-to-month or up for renewal, your landlord can raise your rent according to the above rules.

If you signed a lease for a set term, such as 1 year, the rent stays the same until that term ends. Your landlord cannot raise it in the middle of the term unless you agree. Your landlord cannot make you sign a change to the lease.

During your lease term, your landlord cannot raise your rent unless you agree to the new amount in writing. If you do not sign a written agreement to the change, your original rent stays in effect for the rest of your lease term.

If you have a lease with an end date, your landlord cannot raise your rent before the lease ends. This is true even if the 90-day notice period has already passed.

In DC, the rent limit rules cover most rental units, but some are left out. Under them, no rent is changed for a unit with a valid written lease or rental agreement. The lease must set the rent for its term.

If you have a lease for a set term, your landlord generally cannot raise the rent while that lease continues. Your landlord can only do this if the lease itself allows a rent change.