If You’re A Minnesota Housing Provider It’s CRP Time Again

It’s January. That means it’s time for Minnesota housing providers to complete their CRP’s (certificate of rent paid) for their residents.

Who is required to complete a CRP? Anyone who owned, managed, sublet or rented living space to someone in 2025 must issue one to renters if either property tax was payable on the property during the time it was rented, or payments were made instead of property tax.

If one or more adult renters live in the same unit for the entire year, show that each renter paid an equal amount of rent.

Each unit must receive a CRP, and each adult in that unit must receive one showing that they paid an equal amount of rent. Married couples must also receive separate CRPS showing they paid equal amounts, even if that was not the case.

If an adult renter moved in or out during the year, show that each renter paid an equal amount of rent for the months they lived in the rental unit together.

And of course, if someone moved in in our out of the unit mid year, then the CRP should reflect the appropriate pro-rated rent. If you bought or sold a property during that time, you must issue them for the timeframe in which you owned it.

Failure to provide each tenant with a CRP by the January 31 deadline may result in a $100 fine for each.

To complete your CRP, click HERE.