Rent increases · US

Rent increase notices for the United States, scheduled and validated

An increase you never schedule is rent you never collect. Each one needs its own date, its own notice period, and its own paperwork, and the rules change with the market. Scaalr treats a rent increase as a scheduled, validated event on the lease, not a calendar reminder: it resolves the property to its market, validates the increase against that market's rules, prepares the paperwork, and carries it through signing, service, and the record. Scaalr does the paperwork; you set the rate and confirm the market's rules, and nothing serves until you have done both of those.

Fifty states each write their own rules, and a dozen cities write their own on top. Scaalr resolves each property to the profile that governs it, then prepares the paperwork that profile requires.

All 50 states District of Columbia 12 city profiles

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Start free and load the leases first: every increase schedules from a lease.

All 50 states, DC, and 12 city profiles

Fifty state rulebooks, and a dozen cities that write their own on top. Scaalr resolves each property to the one profile that governs it before an increase is scheduled.

Official paperwork

Where the market mandates an official government document, Scaalr fills exactly that one.

You set the rate

The number is yours. Every notice is signed before it serves, and nothing serves in a market until you confirm its rules.

How it works

From schedule to served notice

One workflow covers every market; only the market profile changes. Here is what runs, and where you stay in charge.

Read the operator's guide

Step 1

Schedule the increase

You set the rate on the lease, or in bulk from the rent-increases worklist. Every eligible lease shows its earliest lawful effective date, its proposed rate, and its schedule status, with per-lease overrides.

Step 2

Confirm your market

Automated notices serve in a market only after a manager reviews and acknowledges that market's current rules. Until then, the schedule pauses safely and nothing sends.

Step 3

Validation runs twice

At scheduling and again before service, each increase is checked against the market profile: the cap or guideline where one exists, the frequency limit, any protected window at the start of a lease, and whether the effective date clears the notice floor.

Step 4

The right paperwork

Where a market mandates official government paperwork, Scaalr fills exactly that. Everywhere else it composes the notice from the market's own rules, stating the current rent, the new rent, and the effective date.

Step 5

Signed before it serves

A designated signer can capture a signature once and authorize unattended sending, review and sign each notice, or route it to the property owner through a secure emailed link. A schedule with no usable signature holds until one is captured.

Step 6

Served and recorded

When the increase comes due, Scaalr opens a rent-increase case, generates and attaches the notice, serves it by email where the market permits or as a staff record-of-service task where it does not, and records the result against the lease.

Every increase schedules from a lease. Load one building's leases on the free tier, and the worklist is ready the day you turn Growth on.

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US coverage

Every property resolves to the rule that governs it

Fifty state rulebooks, and a dozen cities that write their own on top. Scaalr resolves each property to the one profile that governs it before an increase is scheduled.

All 50 states
District of Columbia
12 city profiles

New York coverage is market-rate tenancies only. Rent-stabilized units are not supported, and the product says so before you schedule one.

Scaalr prepares and serves the paperwork; it does not give legal advice, and the rate is always yours to set. The full list of supported markets across every country lives on the rent increases page.

Pricing

Rent increases come with Growth

Set the portfolio up free, then turn Growth on: $99 a month for the first 50 units, then $1.49 per additional unit. No onboarding fee, no annual contract. Every increase schedules from a lease, so the free tier is the first step of the job, not a detour.

Starter

Get the portfolio, leases, and books into Scaalr before you schedule anything.

Free First 5 units free, then $0.99 /unit /month

Ideal for portfolios of 5–100 units
Up to 3 internal users
No minimums

Includes the following features:

Everything in one place: properties, units, residents, leases, owners, and contractors
Rents and leases: track leases and collect rent in one place
Accounting: double-entry ledger, automatic postings, P&L and balance sheet
No commitment: add a card to start, cancel anytime

Operator-grade

Growth

Jurisdiction-aware rent increases, plus the AI inbox and the books, for the buildings you run.

$99 /month First 50 units included. $1.49 a unit after.

No add-on fees. Cancel anytime.
Ideal for portfolios of 100–2,000 units
Up to 10 internal users

Everything in Starter, plus:

Rent increases: scheduled from the lease, validated against the market that governs it, and carried through signing, service, and the record
Alex: covers resident email and texts 24/7, alerts your on-call person only for the real emergency, and can reply in the resident's own language, any of 30+
Invoicing and online payments: collect by card or Apple Pay where available, on a no-login link, with no added platform fees
Front desk, reception, and concierge: visitors, packages, fobs, lockers, and security-guard logins on one screen
Ledger encryption: your accounting data encrypted at rest behind a secret only you hold

Nothing to schedule and nobody to talk to first. Load one building's leases free and see the worklist with your own dates in it.

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Key questions

What operators ask before turning it on

Which markets does Scaalr support for rent increases in the United States?

Every state and the District of Columbia, plus 12 city profiles where a city sets its own rules on top of the state's. Automated notices serve in a market only after a manager reviews and acknowledges its current rules. New York coverage is market-rate tenancies only.

What about New York rent-stabilized units?

They are not supported. Scaalr's New York coverage applies to market-rate tenancies only, and the product says so before you schedule one.

Does Scaalr fill the official government paperwork?

Where the market mandates official government paperwork, Scaalr fills exactly that. Where it does not, Scaalr composes the notice from the market's own rules, stating the current rent, the new rent, and the effective date. Either way the notice is signed before it serves.

Does Scaalr serve the notice to the resident?

Where the market permits service by email, yes: the signed notice is emailed to the resident and the service is recorded on the lease. Where a market requires personal or mail service, Scaalr generates the signed notice and hands your team a record-of-service task, so what was served, how, and when stays on the record.

Does the resident sign a rent increase notice?

No. A rent increase notice is served to the resident, not signed by them; the signature on it is the landlord side's. In Scaalr, a designated signer or the property owner signs, and a notice without a usable signature holds instead of serving.

Which plan includes automated rent increases?

Growth and up. Growth is $99 a month for the first 50 units, then $1.49 per additional unit, and jurisdiction-aware rent increase notices are included at that price. All plans are billed in US dollars.

Deciding the number is the part that stays yours. The cadence, the notice periods, and the paper trail are covered in How and When to Raise Rent, and the shorter argument for treating increases as schedules lives in Every Lease Has Its Own Rent Day.

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