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Kentucky month-to-month lease agreement
Written for Kentucky law, checked October 1, 2026 General information, not legal advice
A month-to-month tenancy renews each month until the landlord or the tenant gives notice. Choose month-to-month as the lease type, or set a fixed-term lease to convert to month-to-month when its term ends.
Kentucky rules that apply
- Ending a month-to-month tenancy
- 30 days
- written notice before the rental date named, in a URLTA locality
- KRS 383.695(2)
Ending a month-to-month tenancy
In a URLTA locality, you or the tenant may end a month-to-month tenancy by written notice given at least 30 days before the periodic rental date named in the notice, and a week-to-week tenancy by written notice at least seven days before the termination date named. Where the URLTA is not in effect, the landlord may end a tenancy at will or by sufferance by giving one month's written notice requiring the tenant to leave.
KRS 383.695(1), (2) KRS 383.195
More detail (3)
- In a URLTA locality, a tenancy that began when a written lease ended may be ended by either party on written notice given at least 10 days before the termination date named. KRS 383.695(3)
- If the tenant stays after the tenancy ends without your consent and the holdover is willful and not in good faith, you may also recover up to three months' periodic rent or three times your actual damages, whichever is greater, and reasonable attorney's fees (URLTA localities). KRS 383.695(4)
- A tenant who holds over after a fixed lease term ended on a certain day is a different case: possession proceedings have a 30-day window (90 days for a term of a year or more), described under eviction process. KRS 383.160 See Eviction process on the Kentucky page
The Kentucky lease ends a month-to-month tenancy on 30 days' written notice from either party everywhere in Kentucky (as a lease term outside URLTA localities), Rentari's landlord notice to vacate gives 31 days so it always covers a month, and Rentari's holdover eviction notice warns of the KRS 383.160 filing window.
Rent increase notice
Partly readThis page states no notice period for a rent increase: the review it relies on recorded none. In a URLTA locality, you may not raise rent in retaliation for a tenant's code complaint, complaint to you about repairs, or tenant union activity.
More detail (3)
- A complaint within one year before the increase creates a presumption of retaliation, unless the tenant complained after notice of the proposed increase. KRS 383.705 See Retaliation on the Kentucky page
- Review the actual lease and local adoption before proposing a new rent. In a URLTA locality, KRS 383.565 permits lawful agreed rent and lease terms. KRS 383.695 gives deadlines for ending periodic tenancies: seven days for weekly tenancies and 30 days before the specified periodic rental date for monthly tenancies. Those are termination rules, not a stand-alone rent-increase notice provision. Outside URLTA localities, KRS 383.195 instead addresses a landlord ending a tenancy at will or by sufferance on one month's written notice. Check the agreement and applicable law before changing billing. KRS 383.565 KRS 383.695 KRS 383.195 See Ending a month-to-month tenancy on the Kentucky page
- For notices governed by the URLTA, KRS 383.560 distinguishes giving notice from receiving it. It describes steps reasonably calculated to inform the recipient, actual attention, hand delivery to the tenant, and registered or certified mail to the designated address or last known residence. Keep the written notice and evidence of delivery. Do not assume a portal upload, email or door posting automatically proves receipt, or that agreeing to a delivery clause resolves every legal requirement. This section does not set a fixed mailing-delay allowance for a rent change. KRS 383.560