NJ rent control guides

Plain-language explainers on the statewide rules that apply everywhere in New Jersey, and how they interact with the roughly 100 local rent-control ordinances this site tracks. For a specific municipality's cap and notice rules, go straight to the town list.

• How a valid New Jersey rent increase notice works — The terminate-and-reoffer structure, the one-month minimum, what must be in it, and how it has to be delivered.
• How much can a landlord raise the rent in New Jersey? — There's no statewide cap. See what actually limits an increase in your town, and how courts treat increases where there's no rent control at all.
• New Jersey rent control exemptions: what's not covered — Owner-occupied small buildings, new construction, and the other carve-outs that show up again and again in local ordinances — with counts pulled from this site's town data.
• New Jersey's FAIR Act: what it bans on algorithmic rent-setting — What the newly enacted FAIR Act actually bans, its key definitions verbatim, who it covers, and what it means (and doesn't mean) for a landlord who sets rent by hand.
• Can I send a rent increase notice by email in New Jersey? — N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.2 lists personal delivery, leaving it with a household member 14+, or certified mail — not email. Here's what that means in practice.

Looking for lead-safe rental certification instead of rent control? See the lead-safe certification hub — a separate legal requirement, with its own 3-year certificate, inspection method, and per-town details.