Pennsylvania has no statute setting a rent-increase notice period and no rent control, so the lease governs. A landlord cannot raise rent mid-term on a fixed lease but may increase it at renewal or, for a month-to-month tenancy, by serving the notice the lease requires to end and re-let the term.
No provision of the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951 (68 P.S. Sections 250.101 et seq.) sets a notice period for rent increases, and Pennsylvania has no statewide rent control. For a fixed-term lease the rent is locked until the term ends; the landlord may propose a higher rent at renewal. For a month-to-month tenancy, raising rent effectively means ending the existing term and offering a new one, so practitioners apply the termination notice in 68 P.S. Section 250.501 (15 days for terms of one year or less, 30 days for longer) absent a different lease term. Written notice stating the new amount and effective date is standard practice but is dictated by the lease, not by statute.
No specific statutory penalty. A tenant is not bound by an increase that violates the lease or that takes effect during a fixed term, and may treat an improperly noticed increase as ineffective.
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