Rent Increases in Alaska: What Are My Rights?
This page covers rent increases in Alaska. It explains what your rental agreement can say about rent. It also explains when a landlord may not raise your rent as payback for using your rights.
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Alaska law lets a landlord and a renter put the rent and other terms in the rental agreement. The terms cannot be ones that Alaska's landlord and tenant law or another law prohibits.
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Read your rental agreement to see what it says about rent. Keep a copy of any letter from your landlord about a rent change.
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If your rental agreement does not fix a definite term (an end date), your rental is week to week when you pay rent weekly. In all other cases it is month to month.
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Alaska law says a landlord may not retaliate (act against you because you used a right) by raising rent. The rule applies after you do any one of these things. You complained to your landlord of a violation of AS 34.03.100. You sought to enforce your rights under Alaska's landlord and tenant law. You organized or joined a tenant's union or similar group. You complained to a government agency responsible for enforcing housing, wage, price, or rent controls. The rule has limits set in other parts of the same section.
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Your landlord may not raise your rent to retaliate (punish you) after you take certain steps. One step is to complain to the landlord of a violation of AS 34.03.100. Another is to try to enforce your rights under Alaska's landlord and tenant law. Others are to join a tenant's union or complain to a government agency that enforces housing, wage, price, or rent controls. Alaska law lists cases where this limit does not apply. If your landlord breaks this rule, you have a defense if the landlord sues you to take your home.
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Alaska law bars a landlord from raising rent to retaliate (punish you for using your rights). The landlord may still raise rent in some cases. One is when the landlord became liable (legally responsible) for a substantial increase in property taxes. The landlord must have become liable not less than 4 months before asking for the increase. The increase must bear a reasonable relationship to the net increase in taxes.
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Alaska law bars a landlord from raising rent to retaliate (punish you for using your rights). The landlord may still raise rent in some cases. One is when the landlord can show, by competent evidence (proof), that the rent now asked is not more than what other tenants pay. The comparison is with the rent charged to other tenants of similar units in the building. For a single-family home, or a building with no similar unit, the rent may not be more than the fair rental value.
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