Connecticut Residential Rent Increase Notice

Connecticut Residential Rent Increase Notice

Use this form only after completing the legal, lease, coverage, and local-law checks below. Check whether the municipality has a fair rent commission and whether an order limits the rent for this unit; enter any applicable order's amount and effective date before serving the notice.

Connecticut Rent-Increase Notice Module

For rental agreements entered into, renewed, or extended on or after October 1, 2024, a residential rent increase requires written notice at least 45 days before the proposed effective date. For a lease with a term of one month or less, give notice a number of days equal to one full lease term instead. Apply any longer notice period required by the agreement or another applicable rule. Silence is not agreement to the proposed increase. The statute does not authorize an increase during a rental-agreement term when the agreement does not permit it. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-4e.

• Agreement date/renewal/extension date: [__/__/____]
• Required notice: ☐ 45 days ☐ One full lease term of one month or less: [____] days ☐ Longer applicable period: [____] days
• Lease permits increase on proposed date, or date is after current term: ☐ Confirmed

• Any fair-rent-commission and protected-tenant rules checked: ☐ Yes

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

• Applicable fair rent commission orders, emergency orders, 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 ☐ Week-to-week ☐ Other: [________]
• 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]

This is written notice that, beginning [EFFECTIVE DATE], the monthly rent for the premises will change:

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

Your failure to respond to this notice does not constitute agreement to the proposed increase.

The new rent is due on the regular rent-payment date and must be paid by the method stated in the rental agreement, unless the parties sign a different lawful agreement. All other 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 federal, state, local, subsidy, or rent-control law.

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: ☐ Personal delivery ☐ Mail ☐ Posting plus mailing ☐ Other lawful method: [________]
• Person/address served: [________________________________]
• Date/time served or mailed: [__/__/____] [____]
• Mailing extension or receipt rule included in effective-date calculation: ☐ Yes ☐ Not applicable
• 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
• Coverage/exemption and cap calculation retained: ☐ Yes
• Current state and local 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/view.xhtml?req=(title:42%20section:3604%20edition:prelim)
• Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 830, § 47a-4e — Connecticut General Assembly — https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_830.htm
• Connecticut OLR, Protections Regarding Rent Increases — https://www.cga.ct.gov/2024/rpt/pdf/2024-R-0143.pdf
• Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-148b — 2026 Connecticut Supplement — https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/sup/chap_098.htm#sec_7-148b
• Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-148d — Connecticut General Assembly — https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_098.htm#sec_7-148d