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This is literally what I'm facing right now. We were hoping to stay in our place for one more year, but the company is raising our rent by 10% while at the same

This is literally what I'm facing right now. We were hoping to stay in our place for one more year, but the company is raising our rent by 10% while at the same time are running a special for a free month's rent. Every place I've rent from has done this, raising rent at least 5% to 10%. I just want one place where I can stay and try to save up money for a house.

kurthr 3y ago
If both of you aren't on the lease, alternate between the two of you. At least you won't have to move very far. When I was just out of school I did this in a large complex with my wife more than once (we had different last names and used her parents address for mail). The first time, we didn't even have to move, because she got the pick of open apartments... one of which was ours. We worried they would want to paint it, but I guess since I'd only had a it a year, they didn't bother. The Sales person was happy because they got commission anyway, and we got a free months rent rather than paying an extra month's rent in increases.
ikekkdcjkfke 3y ago
Do like the EU, group up and collective bargain. Strike, lock-out etc. are all concepts explored over hundred years ago
- rocqua 3y ago
  I hope it would work, but fear evictions and police intervention would be brutal enough to quash the will to fight.
  - madsbuch 3y ago
    EU citizens love this attitude from Americans as they invest in REITs while sitting in their cheaper apartments. The EU states love it as they got to tax that income from US REITs. In Denmark we have "Bopælspligt" meaning that an owner of an apartment is obligated to have someone living in the apartment. While i know this is detrimental to the US mentality is forces a free market on real estate and is, IMHO, the only way you can ensure a fair rental market without rent control. As a result real estate in Copenhagen is cheap enough that most working people in Denmark are able to buy (albeit that being a small apartment).
    - mrtksn 3y ago
      >In Denmark we have "Bopælspligt" meaning that an owner of an apartment is obligated to have someone living in the apartment. What happens if no one is living? Can't find a tenant or simply takes a really long holiday or goes abroad to to work for a few years? I'm under impression that Americans freak out because they tend to go full technical on laws, that is, they don't care much what the governments are trying to achieve with the laws but work within the limits of strict technicality. So a lot of Americans were freaking out here on HN when GDPR was introduced, some shutting down personal projects because were afraid to get in trouble with the EU laws and find themselves in huge and expensive lawsuits.
      - madsbuch 3y ago
        if you go abroad you most definitely rent out your owned apartment as you otherwise are fully tax liable in Denmark with a permanent dwelling. if you are on a long holiday, you still legally live in the unit. if you cannot rent it out you, well, lower the rent until you can. easy as that. or you put the unit up for sale, which suspends the rule.
      - shortsunblack 3y ago
        The GDPR comment perhaps is indicative of this out of all. GDPR enforcement has been small, ineffective and nowhere close to "every kind of violation gets an expensive lawsuit attached". It's as if this is meta-commentary.
        mrtksn 3y ago
        I don't know why there needs to be "iron fist nazi approach, hanging people for the smallest violation" kind of enforcement of the GDPR to be effective. Europeans are not that much into laws and enforcement of it, there's always some level of disorder and lawlessness and the police wouldn't start shooting immediately. Things tend to be corrected after some scandal or if the issue grows to be actually impactful. GDPR essentially makes companies mindful about how they store and transfer data and if something goes wrong, it is useful to tell what went wrong and who is responsible about it. There's no EU police going around and nocking on the doors, taking people in for the smallest violation.

kurthr 3y ago

If both of you aren't on the lease, alternate between the two of you. At least you won't have to move very far. When I was just out of school I did this in a large complex with my wife more than once (we had different last names and used her parents address for mail). The first time, we didn't even have to move, because she got the pick of open apartments... one of which was ours. We worried they would want to paint it, but I guess since I'd only had a it a year, they didn't bother. The Sales person was happy because they got commission anyway, and we got a free months rent rather than paying an extra month's rent in increases.

ikekkdcjkfke 3y ago

Do like the EU, group up and collective bargain. Strike, lock-out etc. are all concepts explored over hundred years ago

rocqua 3y ago
I hope it would work, but fear evictions and police intervention would be brutal enough to quash the will to fight.
- madsbuch 3y ago
  EU citizens love this attitude from Americans as they invest in REITs while sitting in their cheaper apartments. The EU states love it as they got to tax that income from US REITs. In Denmark we have "Bopælspligt" meaning that an owner of an apartment is obligated to have someone living in the apartment. While i know this is detrimental to the US mentality is forces a free market on real estate and is, IMHO, the only way you can ensure a fair rental market without rent control. As a result real estate in Copenhagen is cheap enough that most working people in Denmark are able to buy (albeit that being a small apartment).
  - mrtksn 3y ago
    >In Denmark we have "Bopælspligt" meaning that an owner of an apartment is obligated to have someone living in the apartment. What happens if no one is living? Can't find a tenant or simply takes a really long holiday or goes abroad to to work for a few years? I'm under impression that Americans freak out because they tend to go full technical on laws, that is, they don't care much what the governments are trying to achieve with the laws but work within the limits of strict technicality. So a lot of Americans were freaking out here on HN when GDPR was introduced, some shutting down personal projects because were afraid to get in trouble with the EU laws and find themselves in huge and expensive lawsuits.
    - madsbuch 3y ago
      if you go abroad you most definitely rent out your owned apartment as you otherwise are fully tax liable in Denmark with a permanent dwelling. if you are on a long holiday, you still legally live in the unit. if you cannot rent it out you, well, lower the rent until you can. easy as that. or you put the unit up for sale, which suspends the rule.
    - shortsunblack 3y ago
      The GDPR comment perhaps is indicative of this out of all. GDPR enforcement has been small, ineffective and nowhere close to "every kind of violation gets an expensive lawsuit attached". It's as if this is meta-commentary.
      - mrtksn 3y ago
        I don't know why there needs to be "iron fist nazi approach, hanging people for the smallest violation" kind of enforcement of the GDPR to be effective. Europeans are not that much into laws and enforcement of it, there's always some level of disorder and lawlessness and the police wouldn't start shooting immediately. Things tend to be corrected after some scandal or if the issue grows to be actually impactful. GDPR essentially makes companies mindful about how they store and transfer data and if something goes wrong, it is useful to tell what went wrong and who is responsible about it. There's no EU police going around and nocking on the doors, taking people in for the smallest violation.