You are mailing out rent increase notices to your residents, to be effective on July 1.

Question

The law requires that you provide tenants with 30 full calendar days' notice to increase their rents. Because you mailed the notices through first class mail, you have to include an additional 3 days to the notice for mailing. What is the last possible date that you have to mail the notices, in order for them to be effective and legally binding to increase the tenant's rent effective July 1?

Answer 1

To determine the last possible date you can mail the rent increase notices so they are effective on July 1, we need to account for the required notice period and the additional mailing time.

1. The law requires that tenants receive 30 full calendar days' notice.
2. You also need to account for an additional 3 days for mailing.

So, you need a total of 30 days + 3 days = 33 days of notice prior to the effective date of July 1.

Now, counting back 33 days from July 1:

• June 30 is 1 day before July 1.
• June 29 is 2 days before.
• June 28 is 3 days before.
• Continue counting back until you reach 33 days.

Starting from July 1 and counting back 33 days takes us to:

• June has 30 days.

• So, from June 30 to June 1 is 30 days.

• We need 3 more days back into May:

  May 31 = 31 days back

  May 30 = 32 days back

  May 29 = 33 days back

Thus, the last possible date you can mail the notices is May 29.