Rent increase after lease renewal

[Francisco D Contreras]

From Austin Texas I have a fouplex and one of the tenants lease just got renewed 2 months ago for a 12 month lease, but I didn’t raise the rent at that time when I sent the lease agreement renewal. Does anyone know if I can rise the rent now for that tenant or do I have to wait till the Lease ends?

[Andrew Allen]

I strongly disagree with the advice to "aggravate them so bad that they want to leave." What kind of way is that to treat people? The tenants aren't the ones that did anything wrong. Francisco is. He's either such a newb he doesn't know the basics of lease renewal, or he's a horrible landlord not even paying attention to his property and has no respect for contractual agreements. Either way your advice is just going to generate another landlord that the rest of society wants nothing to do with...and make the rest of us look bad.