Arkansas Residential Rent Increase Notice

Arkansas Residential Rent Increase Notice

Use this form only after completing the legal, lease, coverage, and applicable rent-restriction checks below.

Arkansas Timing and Authority Gate

For a month-to-month tenancy, use a written notice ending the current tenancy on a specified date at least 30 days after notice is given and offering a new tenancy at the proposed rent. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-704(b) governs the termination notice; it does not itself make a higher rent part of an existing tenancy. For a fixed term, use the renewal-offer route only after checking the lease and current law.

• Lease authority or renewal basis identified: ☐ Yes
• Month-to-month termination date is at least 30 days after written notice is given: ☐ Yes ☐ Not applicable

• Current law and any housing-program requirements checked: ☐ Yes

• Fair-housing review confirms the increase is not based on a protected characteristic: ☐ Yes

• Applicable rent restrictions, subsidy rules, and deed restrictions checked: ☐ Yes
• Longer notice required by another law, agreement, or program: ☐ No ☐ Yes — [____] days

1. Property, Parties, and Tenancy

• Date of notice: [__/__/____]
• Housing provider/agent: [________________________________]
• Tenant(s): [________________________________]
• Property address/unit: [________________________________]
• Tenancy: ☐ Fixed term ending [__/__/____] ☐ Month-to-month
• Lease section authorizing change/renewal: [________________________________]
• Rent is normally due on day [____] of each month.

2. Increase Calculation and Effective Date

Calculation: (proposed rent − current rent) ÷ current rent × 100 = [____]%.

3. Notice to Tenant

Date: [__/__/____]

To: [TENANT NAME(S)]
At: [PROPERTY ADDRESS AND UNIT]

Select and complete one route:

☐ Month-to-month tenancy. This written notice terminates the current month-to-month tenancy for the premises on [TERMINATION DATE], at least 30 days after this notice is given. We offer a new month-to-month tenancy for the same premises beginning [NEW TENANCY START DATE] at the proposed rent below. The proposed new rent does not change the rent due under the existing tenancy before its termination.

☐ Fixed-term renewal offer. The current lease ends on [LEASE END DATE]. We offer renewal beginning [RENEWAL START DATE] at the proposed rent below, subject to the current lease and the parties' agreement. This offer does not itself change rent during the current fixed term.

The proposed rent is:

• Current monthly rent: $[________]
• New monthly rent: $[________]
• Change: $[________] ([____]%)

Under the proposed new tenancy or renewal, the new rent is due on the regular rent-payment date and must be paid by the method stated in the applicable rental agreement, unless the parties agree otherwise. All other proposed terms remain unchanged except as expressly stated here:

[____________________________________________________________]

Legal/lease basis and applicable notice period:

[____________________________________________________________]

This notice does not waive any tenant right or housing-provider duty under controlling law or an applicable housing program.

The proposed tenancy or renewal requires the parties' agreement. The tenant may accept by signing below or by another method the current lease and applicable law permit: [________________________________]. Continued occupancy alone is not treated here as acceptance of the proposed rent.

☐ I accept the proposed new tenancy or renewal on the terms stated above.

Tenant signature: [________________________________] Date: [__/__/____]

Housing provider/authorized agent: [________________________________]

Signature: [________________________________] Date: [__/__/____]

Contact/address for lawful communications: [________________________________]

4. Service and Proof

Permitted service method verified under current controlling law: ☐ Yes

• Method of giving written notice, checked for legal sufficiency: [________________________________]
• Person/address served: [________________________________]
• Date/time served or mailed: [__/__/____] [____]
• Notice-given date used in the 30-day calculation: [__/__/____]
• Tracking/certificate/witness: [________________________________]

I declare that the information above accurately records service of this notice.

Server name/signature/date: [________________________________]

5. File Record

• Signed lease and amendments retained: ☐ Yes
• Applicable restriction and notice-period calculation retained: ☐ Yes
• Current state and federal sources saved or cited: ☐ Yes
• Copy of notice and service proof retained: ☐ Yes
• Effective date independently rechecked after service: ☐ Yes

Sources and References

• 42 U.S.C. § 3604 — https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t42/s3604/
• Arkansas Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of 2007, official Act 1004 — https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2007%2FPublic%2FACT1004.pdf