How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Georgia?

No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).

Does Georgia have rent control?

No — Georgia has no statewide rent control or stabilization.

Does Georgia preempt local rent control ordinances?

Georgia law bars every county and city from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing any ordinance that regulates rent on privately owned residential rental property, while leaving local governments free to set rents on housing they own and to make rent agreements for such properties.

Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Georgia?

Rent for a fixed term is controlled by the lease, and a landlord cannot change it mid-term unless the lease so provides; no statute addresses mid-term or renewal increases. At expiration the landlord may propose any new rent.

How much notice is required to raise the rent in Georgia?

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Enacted but not yet in force. This page reflects the law in force today. The following measure has been signed and takes effect on the date shown:

SB 406 (2026), Ga. L. 2026, p. 988 — the Georgia Property Owners' Bill of Rights Act — Already SIGNED but not yet effective: on January 1, 2027, new O.C.G.A. 44-7-50(e) lets a court, on motion and after a hearing, make all records of a dispossessory proceeding unavailable to the public when the tenant won the case, when the tenant has paid the judgment in full including interest and costs, or when seven years have passed since a dismissal or a paid-in-full judgment. The landlord may still pursue any amounts owed in a separate action or through collections. The rest of the act concerns homeowners' and property owners' associations, not landlord-tenant law. Status: Signed 2026; section 9 makes the dispossessory-records provision effective January 1, 2027 (only the association attorney-fee section took effect July 1, 2026). The answers shown do not yet reflect it. (checked August 16, 2026).

Georgia has no statute that regulates rent increases or sets a rent-increase notice period, and no cap on the size or frequency of an increase.

Cited to O.C.G.A. 44-7-7 and 2 more cited sources · Verified July 8, 2026

The practical floor comes from O.C.G.A. 44-7-7, which requires 60 days' notice to end a tenancy at will. For a month-to-month tenant the Court of Appeals has held that a landlord's notice raising the rent is itself a notice terminating the old tenancy, so the higher rate cannot begin until the 60 days have run, and a new tenancy at will then starts at the new rent. Georgia has no statewide rent control, and O.C.G.A. 44-7-19 forbids counties and cities from regulating rents on privately owned residential property, so no Georgia locality, including Atlanta, may enact rent control.

Georgia rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary)
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Rent for a fixed term is controlled by the lease, and a landlord cannot change it mid-term unless the lease so provides; no statute addresses mid-term or renewal increases. At expiration the landlord may propose any new rent.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	Not addressed by statute
Local rent regulation	Georgia law bars every county and city from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing any ordinance that regulates rent on privately owned residential rental property, while leaving local governments free to set rents on housing they own and to make rent agreements for such properties.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

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Notes and caveats

60 days is derived from termination law, not a rent-increase statute — 44-7-7 is a termination statute, and Georgia case law holds its 60-day notice is distinct from the 44-7-50 demand for possession. It is still the number that governs an increase: a landlord's letter raising the rent on a tenancy at will operates as notice terminating that tenancy, and it does not take effect to end the old tenancy or start the new one at the higher rate until the 60 days have expired.
Why the notice field shows no number — The figure is left empty under the same convention used for other derivation-only states (Texas gets the same treatment) because no Georgia statute directly sets a rent-increase notice period.
The local rent-control ban has one narrow exception — 44-7-19's preemption does not reach property owned by the local government itself, or agreements it enters about its own property.
The preemption survived two repeal attempts in 2025-2026 — HB 299 and SB 106 would each have repealed 44-7-19; both died without a floor vote when the biennium ended sine die on April 2, 2026 — as did every other rent-setting bill of the session, including rent-increase limits for seniors and veterans (HB 707) and general residential rent-increase limits (HB 710, HB 1031). The preemption stands unamended.

Common questions: Georgia rent increase notice

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How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Georgia?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Georgia have rent control?: No — Georgia has no statewide rent control or stabilization.
Does Georgia preempt local rent control ordinances?: Georgia law bars every county and city from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing any ordinance that regulates rent on privately owned residential rental property, while leaving local governments free to set rents on housing they own and to make rent agreements for such properties.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Georgia?: Rent for a fixed term is controlled by the lease, and a landlord cannot change it mid-term unless the lease so provides; no statute addresses mid-term or renewal increases. At expiration the landlord may propose any new rent.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Georgia?: Not addressed by statute.

Citations

O.C.G.A. 44-7-7 (verified 2026) Official source
O.C.G.A. 44-7-19 (verified 2026) Official source
Alexander v. Steining, 197 Ga. App. 328, 398 S.E.2d 390 (Ga. Ct. App. 1990) · Division II: a unilateral notice of rental increase constitutes notice of termination, effective only after the 60-day period of O.C.G.A. 44-7-7 (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text: O.C.G.A. 44-7-30.1, 44-7-34, 44-7-35, 44-7-36, 44-7-7, and 44-7-19 read in full from the 2024 Code of Georgia (Justia mirror of the official code, which is not deep-linkable on the official legis.ga.gov LexisNexis portal), cross-checked against the official Georgia General Assembly HB 404 (2024 Ga. Laws 392) bill record on legis.ga.gov and the Georgia Appleseed / magistrate-judge bench card summarizing the Safe at Home Act. 44-7-31, 44-7-32, and 44-7-33 mechanics confirmed across the code mirror section listing and multiple consistent secondary sources. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — § 44-7-30.1 and § 44-7-7 through the enrolled acts on gov.georgia.gov and the official reporter text of Alexander v. Steining on static.case.law; the earlier reads stand as recorded.