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 to mail the rent increase notices effective July 1, we need to consider the following:

1. The rent increase requires 30 full calendar days' notice.
2. Since the notices are being mailed, we need to add an extra 3 days for mailing.

This means a total of 30 days + 3 days = 33 days of notice is required before the rent increase takes effect on July 1.

Now, we need to calculate 33 days before July 1:

• Starting from July 1, count backwards 33 days.
  • June 30 (1 day)
  • June 29 (2 days)
  • June 28 (3 days)
  • June 27 (4 days)
  • June 26 (5 days)
  • June 25 (6 days)
  • June 24 (7 days)
  • June 23 (8 days)
  • June 22 (9 days)
  • June 21 (10 days)
  • June 20 (11 days)
  • June 19 (12 days)
  • June 18 (13 days)
  • June 17 (14 days)
  • June 16 (15 days)
  • June 15 (16 days)
  • June 14 (17 days)
  • June 13 (18 days)
  • June 12 (19 days)
  • June 11 (20 days)
  • June 10 (21 days)
  • June 9 (22 days)
  • June 8 (23 days)
  • June 7 (24 days)
  • June 6 (25 days)
  • June 5 (26 days)
  • June 4 (27 days)
  • June 3 (28 days)
  • June 2 (29 days)
  • June 1 (30 days)
  • May 31 (31 days)
  • May 30 (32 days)
  • May 29 (33 days)

Thus, the last possible date to mail the notices is May 29. This will ensure that tenants receive the notices by May 31, allowing for the required 30 full calendar days' notice before the increase goes into effect on July 1.