NRS 118A.300 is Nevada’s residential rent-increase statute, and it is a notice rule. “The landlord may not increase the rent payable by a tenant unless the landlord serves the tenant with a written notice, 60 days or, in the case of any periodic tenancy of less than 1 month, 30 days in advance of the first rental payment to be increased, advising the tenant of the increase.” No section in hosted NRS Chapter 118A or Chapter 40 sets a statewide maximum percentage or dollar cap on how much rent may go up. That absence is what the statutes say: they regulate when notice must be given, not the amount of the new rent.

What the notice statute requires

Three pieces of NRS 118A.300:

  • The notice must be written.
  • It must be served 60 days before the first increased payment, except that a periodic tenancy of less than one month uses 30 days.
  • It must advise the tenant of the increase.

NRS 118A.190(2) provides that written notices to the tenant prescribed by Chapter 118A shall be served in the manner provided by NRS 40.280 (personal delivery, leave-and-mail, or post-and-mail by the people that section authorizes).

A rent-increase notice is not an eviction notice. Ending a periodic tenancy without stated cause uses the 7-day / 30-day periods in NRS 40.251, described in Nevada eviction notices.

What the chapter says about the amount of rent

NRS 118A.200(6) requires that, in each place a landlord lists the amount of rent due and in any reference in a written rental agreement to that amount, rent be set forth as a single figure representing the maximum total amount of periodic rent, including mandatory fees charged in addition to base rent. NRS 118A.200(7) provides that a landlord shall not charge periodic rent that exceeds that single figure. Subsection 8 allows a separately billed monthly utility fee in the narrow circumstances it describes (public utility unable to contract with the tenant, or a master-metered water system), with required asterisk disclosures.

Those subsections regulate how rent is stated and billed under an existing agreement. They are not a rent-control formula for future increases. After a lawful NRS 118A.300 increase, the new amount becomes the rent the agreement and NRS 118A.200 must then express.

NRS 118A.210(4) separately limits late fees: in a tenancy longer than week-to-week, no late fee may be charged until at least 3 calendar days after rent is due; the fee must not exceed 5 percent of the periodic rent; and the maximum may not be increased based on a late fee previously imposed. A late fee is not a rent increase.

Retaliation and a uniform increase

NRS 118A.510(1) forbids increasing rent in retaliation for listed protected acts (housing-code complaints, Chapter 118A complaints, joining a tenants’ union, and others). NRS 118A.510(3)(d) then states that a landlord who acts under the circumstances in subsection 1 does not violate that subsection if “the increase in rent applies in a uniform manner to all tenants.” The statute therefore distinguishes a retaliatory increase from a uniform one; it still does not cap the size of a uniform increase.

What the statutes do not say

Hosted NRS 118A and NRS 40 contain no statewide rent-control ceiling — no percentage cap, no city-by-city statutory schedule in those chapters, and no “once a year” limit besides the notice clock in NRS 118A.300. Local ordinances, if any, are outside those chapters and are not cited here. Manufactured-home-park lots are generally under NRS Chapter 118B, which NRS 118A.180(2)(a) excludes from Chapter 118A.

The rest of the cluster sits at Nevada Landlord-Tenant Law.