Eden Prairie, MN Rental Property Rules: Just Cause Eviction (2026)

Eden Prairie's Tenant Protection ordinance, City Code Section 13.05, applies only to two categories of buildings: a 'NOAH project,' meaning a privately owned, unsubsidized property with at least 50 units built in or before 1990 that is Class B or C and at least 20 percent affordable, and an 'affordable rental project,' a property of three or more units that was built with public subsidy requiring affordable units but is no longer bound by that subsidy's affordability terms. Subdivision 3 defines 'cause' as the tenant or a household member materially violating a lease term.

Subdivision 4.A requires a new owner of either type of property, during the 'tenant protection period,' to pay relocation assistance equal to three months of the tenant's current rent if the owner terminates or refuses to renew that tenant's lease without cause. Subdivision 4.B extends the same three-months'-rent payment to a tenant who is rescreened out of eligibility or hit with a rent increase during the protection period and who then gives notice to end the lease. The tenant protection period itself runs from the date the City approves the new owner's rental license under Section 5.72 until three calendar months after the month in which the owner sends the required transfer notice to tenants.

The relocation payment is due no later than the day the tenant vacates the unit, or within 30 days of the tenant's written termination notice for the rent-increase or rescreening trigger. Violating Section 13.05 is a misdemeanor under Section 13.99, with each affected unit counted as a separate offense, and it can also trigger suspension or revocation of the property's rental license under Section 5.72, Subdivision 7.