First month free has definitely been around at times, but I think less so in the most recent pre-COVID years. This article mentioned we might start seeing 2 mon

First month free has definitely been around at times, but I think less so in the most recent pre-COVID years. This article mentioned we might start seeing 2 months though, which I think is much rarer. My complex charges existing tenants greater than 5% more than new ones because they know that few people want to go through the pain of moving out. I haven been able to use the obviousness of this to keep negotiating the "new tenant" rate with them.