> blame the blood hungry landlords who still insist you pay by check and raise their rates by at least 30% every time one of their properties free up. That wou

> blame the blood hungry landlords who still insist you pay by check and raise their rates by at least 30% every time one of their properties free up. That would be the most misguided blame possible. Landlords don't raise prices because they are bad (and they don't lower prices because they are nice guys), the immense majority of them just follow the market and set the price to what people are willing to pay.