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How about landlord negotiations? When your landlord tries to raise your rent to above-market rates, it's a pain to look up what the fair rate is and then draft
by avn2109 11y ago
How about landlord negotiations? When your landlord tries to raise your rent to above-market rates, it's a pain to look up what the fair rate is and then draft a competent counteroffer letter.
- estsauver 11y agoThis sounds great. There's probably also a fair amount of forms that have to be filed with Tenant boards in various places. Thanks!
- shostack 11y agoDo those letters ever work? They are either hoping you will pay, or willing to kick you out for someone that will, no?
- 15155 11y agoIf you're a paying (every month, no soliciting, ahead-of-time) tenant and a landlord is raising rent at all: they run the risk of losing a known quantity for a piece of shit tenant. Unless you're in a usurious, fucked up market (San Francisco), rental owners need to put a dollar amount on losing your tenancy. If you're paying $2000 a month, raising the rent 5% means that, for an extra $1000 (potentially), you'll spend your time and money showing, placing ads, screening prospective tenants. Time is money. Either you're doing this yourself, as an owner, or paying someone to do it. The other cost factor at work applies to the tenant: the "cost to move." It's hard to move in-town for less than $500, so this must be weighed.
- tacon 11y ago"it's a pain to look up what the fair rate is and then draft a competent counteroffer letter." Not that hard these days, viz. https://www.rentometer.com/ https://www.rentometer.com/