Kentucky Rent Increase Notice Requirements

Kentucky's URLTA (KRS 383.500-.715) applies only in jurisdictions that formally adopted it, such as Louisville/Jefferson County and Lexington/Fayette County; elsewhere no statewide landlord-tenant act controls rent increases. There is no statutory cap on the amount of an increase. In URLTA areas, KRS 383.695(2) lets a landlord end a month-to-month tenancy "by a written notice given to the other at least thirty (30) days before the periodic rental date specified in the notice," so a landlord effectively raises rent by giving that 30-day notice and offering new terms. A fixed-term lease cannot be raised mid-term unless the lease allows it.

No specific statutory penalty. A mid-term increase on a fixed lease, or one imposed without the required 30-day month-to-month notice in a URLTA area, is unenforceable and the prior rent continues.