New requirements: Renter rights mandatory disclosures

Starting March 1, 2025, property owners must provide the following information to renters before they sign a lease:

• The name and physical address of the landlord or property manager for renters to serve legal papers. The name and address must be for a person, not a company.
• The property's rental license tier status and any housing cost violations that contributed to it.
• All open violations at the property.
• An overview of how the rental building handles garbage, recycling and organics.

A renter can end their lease after giving proper notice if they do not get these in time. The notice period must be as long as the rent payment schedule or three months, whichever is less. For example, if rent is paid monthly, then the notice period is one month.

If you're concerned about your safety and sharing your address, the Minnesota Secretary of State provides the Safe at Home program to keep your address confidential.

Read more about Safe at Home

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Coming soon: We'll share more resources to help property owners easily share this set of information.

Lead disclosure

There are federal, state and local requirements to notify renters about lead at rental properties. In 1978, the federal government banned consumer use of lead paint, but it may still be present in older houses.

Read the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's lead disclosure rule

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New requirements: Renter rights mandatory disclosures

Starting March 1, 2025, property owners must provide the following information to renters within 90 days after the lease starts:

• Renter rights protected by the city, state and federal governments
• Contact 311 to get in touch with Regulatory Services

See renter rights protected by the City

See renter rights protected by the State of Minnesota

See renter rights protected by the federal government

Rental license certificate and Who to Call poster

You must post the City's Who to Call poster and your rental license certificate in the common area of the front or main entrance of the building. If there is not such a common area, you should post it at or near the entrance of each unit.

For condos in a building with five or more units, you do not need to post the certificate, but you must give a copy to each of your tenants.

Download the Who to Call poster

Pre-eviction filing notice

Before you can evict a renter for non-payment of rent, you must send them a notice stating you plan to file for eviction. The notice must include:

• Which fees are due
• Contact information for who can take the payment

You cannot begin the eviction process until 14 days after this notice is mailed or hand delivered to the renter. After the 14 days, you can start the eviction process if the total amount due is not paid, or if they have not moved out.

Download a pre-eviction filing notice template

Advance notice of building sale

Owners of naturally occurring affordable housing must give the City at least 60 days' notice before making their property available for purchase. Naturally occurring affordable housing includes apartment buildings with five or more units where at least 20 percent of the units are affordable to households earning less than 60 percent of the area median income.