Brooklyn Park, MN Rental Property Rules: Rent Increase Notice (2026)

486 protects tenants when a Brooklyn Park building with three or more rental units, defined as a housing building, changes hands. Within 30 days of the real estate closing, the new owner must deliver written notice to every housing unit tenant disclosing the owner's contact information, whether any rent increase will occur during the three-month tenant notification period and, if so, its amount and effective date, whether tenants will be rescreened under new criteria, whether any material lease change is planned, and whether agreements will be terminated or not renewed without cause, plus the date the notification period expires.

The notice must carry the statutory language warning tenants that a rent increase, rescreening, a material lease change or a no-cause termination during the three-month window can entitle the tenant to relocation assistance, and it must include a translation advisory in English, Hmong and Spanish. A copy goes to the city's Community Development Department at the same time it goes to tenants. If, during the notification period, the new owner raises the rent and the tenant ends the lease because of that increase, terminates without cause, imposes a material change and the tenant leaves as a result, or rescreens and the lease ends over it, the owner must pay relocation assistance equal to three months of the tenant's current rent, due within 30 days of the tenant's notice of termination or the owner's own notice ending the lease.