Missouri Residential Rent Increase Notice

Missouri Landlord & Tenant Updated July 22, 2026 Free Word and PDF

Missouri Residential Rent Increase Notice

Use this form only after completing every legal, lease, coverage, cap, and local-law check below. Municipal rent-control amounts stay out of this state form and must be entered from current local authority.

Missouri Timing and Authority Gate

Do not make a rent increase effective during a fixed term unless the signed lease and current law authorize it. Section 441.060 is a termination statute, not standalone rent-increase authority. For a month-to-month tenancy, this form conservatively uses written notice stating that the tenancy will terminate on a periodic rent-paying date not less than one month after receipt. A landlord terminating a qualifying mobile-home lot tenancy generally faces a separate 60-day rule.

  • Lease authority or renewal basis for the increase identified: ☐ Yes
  • Month-to-month effective date is a periodic rent-paying date at least one month after receipt: ☐ Yes ☐ Not applicable
  • Mobile-home lot coverage checked and separate 60-day rule applied if required: ☐ Yes ☐ Not applicable

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

  • Local rent control/stabilization, 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

Item Amount/date
Current monthly rent and recurring housing charges $[________]
Proposed monthly rent and recurring housing charges $[________]
Dollar increase $[________]
Percentage increase [____]%
Prior increases in applicable lookback period [________________________________]
Earliest lawful effective date calculation [________________________________]
New amount effective date [__/__/____]

Calculation: (proposed amount − current amount) ÷ current amount × 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 and any disclosed recurring housing charges for the premises will change:

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

The new amount 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 actual-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)
  • Mo. Rev. Stat. § 441.060 — Missouri Revisor of Statutes — https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=441.060

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Last updated
July 22, 2026
Citations checked
July 22, 2026
Jurisdiction
Missouri
Category
Landlord & Tenant

Legal authority

  • 42 U.S.C. § 3604(b)
  • Mo. Rev. Stat. § 441.060

Landlord-tenant paperwork governs who can stay in a property, on what terms, and what happens when something goes wrong. Leases, notices to quit, security deposit demands, and habitability complaints all have state and often city-specific requirements for timing, content, and service. Getting the paperwork right is what makes an eviction actually succeed or a security deposit actually come back, because judges regularly dismiss cases over small procedural mistakes.

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