Kansas Rent Increase Notice Requirements

The Kansas Residential Landlord and Tenant Act contains no rent-control provision and no separate rent-increase notice rule. To change rent during a month-to-month tenancy, a landlord must terminate the current periodic tenancy under K.S.A. 58-2570(b), which requires written notice that the tenancy ends "upon a periodic rent-paying date not less than 30 days after the receipt of the notice." The tenant may then accept the new rent or move. A fixed-term lease cannot have rent raised mid-term unless the lease itself allows it. There is no state-imposed maximum on the increase amount.

No specific statutory penalty. A rent increase imposed without the required 30-day termination notice (month-to-month) is unenforceable, and the prior rent and tenancy continue.