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 property's rental license tier status and any housing code 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.

View your property's rental license tier status and related code violations

Coming soon: 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. 

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

Get help from Minneapolis Healthy Homes

Test your water for lead

South Minneapolis arsenic contamination zone

Arsenic contamination was discovered around the site of the former CMC Heartland Lite Yard plant by health agencies who suspected that wind might have blown dust from the site into surrounding neighborhoods. Several companies produced pesticides at the site from 1938 to 1968. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted extensive testing on properties surrounding the plant, confirming the contamination, and a South Minneapolis Arsenic Contamination Zone was established. The plant was located on five acres at the northwest corner of the intersection of Hiawatha Ave. and 28th St. E.

All residential properties, schools, daycares and parks within a .75 mile radius of the plant site have been sampled to determine the extent of contamination, unless access was denied by the owner.

Read more about the South Minneapolis Arsenic Contamination Zone

Southeast Como trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination zone

A source of potential trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination has been identified in the Southeast Como neighborhood. General Mills owned and operated the site from about 1930 to 1977. From the 1940s to the early 1960s, solvents were disposed of in a soil absorption pit located in the southeast portion of the property at 2010 East Hennepin Ave.

The discovery of TCE led to extensive cleanup of the area. Some of the groundwater was contaminated and could release vapors that rise through the soil and seep through basement and foundation cracks into indoor air. This is known as vapor intrusion.

The Minneapolis Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is overseeing an investigation by General Mills. MPCA is requesting that property owners cooperate with General Mills and its contractors to allow soil vapor sampling in and around your home or building. 

The East Hennepin property itself is currently a state and federal Superfund site. However, extensive groundwater testing over many years has shown that TCE concentrations have substantially decreased and the groundwater plume itself has stabilized. It no longer poses a risk to area drinking water supplies or to the Mississippi River. 

New requirements: Renter rights mandatory disclosures

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

• Renter rights protected by city, state and federal laws
• How to contact Regulatory Services: Contact 311

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 (see below) 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.

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 apartments with five or more units where at least 20 percent of the units are affordable to households earning less than 60 percent of area median income. 

Pre-eviction filing notice

Before you can evict a renter for non-payment of rent, you must send them a pre-eviction filing notice. This 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 from the property.