Florida Rent Increase Notice: 30 Days, Counted Back
Florida requires 30 days month-to-month and 60 year-to-year. The 30 run back from the end of a rental period, not forward from the day the notice arrived.
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Florida requires 30 days’ written notice before a month-to-month rent increase, and 60 days if your tenancy runs year to year. There is no cap on the amount, and no Florida city may create one.
Two details decide most disputes here, and neither is the number itself: when the 30 days are counted from, and the fact that this figure only became 30 in 2023.
The 30 days are not counted from the letter
Fla. Stat. § 83.57 requires notice “not less than 30 days prior
to the end of any monthly period”. The period runs back from the end of a
rental period, not forward from the day the notice reached you.
The practical effect catches people out. A notice handed over on the 10th of a month ending on the 31st gives 21 days to the end of that period, not 30 — so it cannot take effect at the start of the next month. It pushes the change to the period after that. If you received a notice part-way through a month, count to the end of the month, not 30 days from the date on the page.
It was 15 days until July 2023
Chapter 2023-314 struck 15 and inserted 30 for month-to-month tenancies, effective 1 July 2023. Guides, lease templates and older forms still carrying 15 days are describing a rule that no longer exists. If your landlord is using a pre-2023 template, the notice may be half what the statute now requires.
The year-to-year tier nobody mentions
Florida is reported almost everywhere as a flat 30-day state. Section 83.57 also sets 60 days for a year-to-year tenancy, 30 days quarter to quarter and 7 days week to week. If your arrangement renews annually rather than monthly, the longer period is yours.
Why the notice is an offer, not a bill
Florida has no rent-increase statute. Section 83.57 is the provision for terminating a tenancy with no fixed duration, and it does duty for rent increases because rent cannot be changed inside a term. Your landlord is ending the tenancy you have and offering a new one at a different figure.
So a tenant who neither accepts the new rent nor leaves is holding over, which carries its own risks, but is not someone who owes the higher amount by default. In any argument about arrears that distinction is the argument.
No cap, and no local route to one
Florida sets no limit on the size of an increase, and the Live Local Act of 2023 removed even the emergency route local governments had previously used. Miami, Orlando and Tampa cannot cap your rent. The honest answer here is short, and it is the answer.
When this needs a lawyer
Get advice if the increase followed a repair request or a code complaint, if you were served a notice to vacate rather than an increase, or if the increase is being applied mid-term under a lease that does not allow it. Florida has legal aid in every circuit.
Sources
Fla. Stat. § 83.57, read on flsenate.gov,
with the history note recording s. 2, ch. 2023-314; service is governed by
§ 83.56(4). The 15-to-30 day change effective 1 July 2023 is reported
consistently across sources describing the enacted text. Preemption of local rent control
follows CS/SB 102 (2023) via the National Multifamily Housing Council’s state chart
of August 2026. Verified November 2026. This is general information, not legal advice about
your tenancy.
Florida is one of 41 states that take the notice period from the statute on ending a tenancy — how all 51 compare. Texas goes further and requires no notice at all. For the deposit, see the Florida deposit rule.
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