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Sending a rent-increase notice
How Aptoria drafts a rent-increase notice with the right terms, why it is never sent automatically, and how you approve and send it.
The short answer
Aptoria can draft a rent-increase notice from the lease and location rules, bounded by the maximum increase you configure. You must review the amount, effective date, and notice timing, then approve it before it sends. A rent increase never sends autonomously.
Workflow at a glance
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The agent drafts, it does not send
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Getting the notice right
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Approve and send
The agent drafts, it does not send
A rent-increase notice is never sent autonomously in Aptoria. Changing what a tenant pays sits behind human approval regardless of how your autonomy dials are set: the agent prepares the notice and you approve it before anything reaches the tenant.
This usually comes up at renewal. When a lease is approaching its end, the agent can draft the renewal with a proposed rent, bounded by the maximum increase percent you have configured, so it never proposes a bigger jump than you allow. The draft lands in your approval queue for you to accept, adjust, or reject.
Getting the notice right
How much notice you owe before raising rent is set by your state, and sometimes your city, and it can depend on the size of the increase and how long the tenant has lived there. Because those rules vary, Aptoria works from the rules configured for the unit's location rather than a single national timeline, and keeps the actual send a step you confirm.
Before you approve, check the effective date and that the notice period lines up with your local requirement. If a tenant is on a fixed-term lease, a mid-term increase usually is not permitted at all and the change waits for renewal — the draft reflects the lease you actually have.
Approve and send
You review the draft in the approval queue, make any edits, and approve it to send. Once sent, the notice and its terms are recorded, so you have a dated record of what was communicated and when.
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Open the renewal or rent-change item in your approval queue.
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Review the proposed rent, the effective date, and the notice period.
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Edit anything that needs adjusting.
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Approve to send, or reject to hold off.
Check the rules where the property is
These resources organize state-level starting points. They are not a substitute for checking the current local rule, lease, or qualified advice before you act.
State rent-increase library
Find the state-specific starting point for notice and rent-increase questions, then confirm current city and property-specific requirements.
Raise-rent decision guide
Use comparable rents, retention costs, and a documented timing decision before drafting a renewal change.
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