Everything you're responsible for as a landlord in Missouri

No statewide cap. Cities and counties (including charter governments) may not enact ordinances regulating the amount of rent for privately owned residential or commercial property.

Landlord may not demand or receive a security deposit exceeding two months' rent. 'Security deposit' excludes money denominated as a pet deposit, so pet deposits sit outside the cap.

No rent-increase notice statute; for month-to-month tenancies a change of terms is effectively bounded by the one-month termination notice in §441.060(4). Fixed-term rent changes only per the lease.

§441.043 bars local rent regulation of private property (except locally owned property, voluntary subsidy agreements and CDBG-funded units) and also bars local deposit caps and screening restrictions; no local just-cause ordinances known.

Month-to-month tenancy may be ended by either party with written notice of at least one month, effective on a periodic rent-paying date, without stating a reason. Fixed terms expire by their terms.

Within 30 days after termination of the tenancy, landlord must return the full deposit or furnish a written itemized list of damages withheld with any balance. Refund model.

Rent-and-possession action requires that rent be due and payment demanded by the landlord and not made; no statutory number of days between demand and filing. Lease may add cure terms.