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Michigan month-to-month lease agreement
Written for Michigan 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.
Michigan rules that apply
- Rent increase notice
- None set
- 30 days for cost pass-throughs a lease allows mid-term
- MCL 554.633(1)(l)
Ending a month-to-month tenancy
Either party may end a tenancy at will, such as month to month, with one month's notice. When rent is paid at intervals shorter than three months, notice equal to the interval between rent payments is enough, and the tenancy ends at the end of a period that long.
More detail (2)
- A notice is not void because the end date it states does not fall at the start or end of a rental period. MCL 554.134(1)
- A year-to-year tenancy ends one year after either party serves a notice to quit. MCL 554.134(3)
The Rentari Michigan lease lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy on one month's written notice, equal to the interval between rent payments.
Rent increase notice
Michigan's landlord-tenant statutes set no notice period for raising rent when a lease ends. During a lease, you may not change any term, rent included, without the tenant's written consent, unless the lease itself allows certain changes on at least 30 days' written notice.
More detail (3)
- The changes a lease may allow on 30 days' written notice are changes required by law, rule changes needed to protect the health, safety or peaceful enjoyment of tenants and guests, and rent increases to cover higher property taxes, higher charges for electricity, heating fuel, water or sewer used at the property, or higher liability, fire or worker compensation insurance premiums. MCL 554.633(1)(l)(i) to (iii)
- The statutes read set no separate rent increase notice for a month-to-month tenancy; ending one takes the notice described under ending a month-to-month tenancy. MCL 554.134(1) See Ending a month-to-month tenancy on the Michigan page
- If you raise a tenant's obligations as a penalty for asserting rights or complaining to a government agency, and the tenant's failure to meet the added obligations is the main reason for ending the tenancy, the tenant has a defense to eviction. MCL 600.5720(1)(e) See Retaliation on the Michigan page
The Rentari lease can be changed only by a written amendment signed by all parties.