That's the point. Rents should stay more or less the same, but now renters won't have to pay a bullshit fee up front. Landlords can list their units on whatev

That's the point. Rents should stay more or less the same, but now renters won't have to pay a bullshit fee up front. Landlords can list their units on whatever listing sites/services for like $500 a pop, and renters won't have to pay $5k-$10k to a broker who did basically nothing for them. Rents will not go up; rents are a function of what the market will bear, not of a landlord's costs.