Q: How much notice do you need to give a tenant to renew a lease with a rent increase in Washington County, OR and Salem?
A:
Month to month tenancies require at least 90 days advanced written notice to raise rent - but rent increases during the first 12 months of the tenancy are unlawful. Fixed term leases normally specify within them the terms and/or events that happen upon expiration. Usually a lease either automatically renews for another full lease term unless one of the parties notifies the other in advance that they do not wish to renew; or it simply expires and the party is expected to be out or enter into a new lease agreement, upon its terms; or, perhaps most common, unless both parties affirmatively renew or otherwise enter into a new fixed term lease, it automatically converts to a month to month tenancy (requiring the 90 days advanced notice of a rent increase, so long as there are not any increases within the first 12 months of the month to month tenancy).
So it most likely comes down to exactly what your lease says.
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