The smilie as punctuation. Discuss.
Amen. You will not get anywhere by getting in people’s faces, up to and including the manager.
If you really are a great tenant, as you say, your landlord might be able to work with you. It is a PITA to find a new, good tenant. We have tenants that we haven’t raised the rent on in years. They give us no trouble with the rent, and promptly let us know when something is wrong (so it doesn’t get more expensive for us to correct).
However, sometimes even the nicest landlord has no choice but to raise the rent. In one town where we own houses, the assessor raised our property taxes massively this year. We actually were able to get her to lower the the new asssessment a bit, so we would not be forced to slam our tenants with higher rents (yet), but if we have raise rents to meet our expenses, and to bank money for the inevitable repairs, and yes, to make some income, since rentals are a BUSINESS, well–we have to, and that’s all there is to it. If you don’t like it, move. If your appartment complex is renting above the current market rates, why stay there?
I would caution you not go off on the manager too much. Good managers are hard to find, and if you piss her off so much that she goes to the owner to complain about you, renewing your lease could be a moot point. The lease will expire, and you may have no choice but to move, if the owner wants to re-rent your unit. Be nice, be reasonable. Pleasant people get a lot further than ranters.
I am not your landlady, I don’t own any apartment buildings, and this is not legal advice.
Well, he already knows what similar units go for - the same as his is going to go for. Because of the breakfast colluding, of course. It’s a polyopoly.
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:o :rolleyes: 
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Yep, I thought it was common knowledge that if you are a landlord, you are also Snidely Whiplash, by default…Mwuhahaha!
::must resist urge to trot out the rolleyes smilies and make this thread look even more like a giant M&M cookie. Mmmm…M&M cookies::
Guy - Perhaps the one you need to speak with is your employer. If you can’t negotiate a decent pay raise, how are you supposed to negotiate a lower rent? Face it, costs for everything have gone up - you need to be compensated accordingly.
And if you haven’t figured it out - over-use of smilies isn’t the done thing, here. Just because they’re there doesn’t mean you have to use them.
StG
As a landlord myself I do appreciate good tenants. However, rental increases are part and parcel of the renting process. Inflation alone warrants an annual rent increase. In addition, even though you may not be getting any equity in your apartment you’re still paying a lot less for it then you otherwise would have to if you purchased the place. The landlord is bearing all of the real risk associated with the apartment whereas you have much more flexibility with your lease.
I think they’re keeping him from learning from anything anyone is saying to him here.
Somehow, I get the idea that GuyNblueJeans isn’t going to fit Demonic Woman’s definition of ‘good tenant’. She probably has him pegged as the guy who ‘crushes’ her employees and makes a lot of funny faces at the end of every sentence.
Oh, crap! ::cough:: I just inhaled my coffee from laughing. I love you guys!
Fools, all of you! My mortgage (which includes homeowner’s insurance and taxes and everything) is $660. I got three bedrooms and a nice yard. Sometimes I talk to the landlord - self, I say? Self, thanks for not raising the rent! And she says, no problem, self! You’re a great tenant! And so wise in your smiley use!
“I’m crushing your head!”
I think it is interesting how he won’t take governement assistance on priciple, yet he expects financial assistance from his landlord.
Yeh, it sucks when you can’t afford to live. You get frustrated as Hell. It’s best not to post drunk on a message board especially threatening your landlord. You’ll loose any sympathy you might wish to have by that point.Some of these responses show a complete lack of understanding that you’re not always able to be in a better situation, even if you try to be. It’s exactly the type of response that your drunken violent laden post will always garner though.
I always love the “You think that’s bad? I live in California!” response.
… which always inspires the response from someone who lives on vast amounts of land for pennies a day in a place that has very little, if anything, in common with California.
I get sick of that too.
My thoughts exactly.
Other than that (drunken?), sorta-threatening phone call to the office of the woman you said you want to negotiate with. :rolleyes:
I feel sorry for people who have to deal with you on a professional level. They’re in a business, and I don’t know if your complaints have merit, but it’s usually considered a good move to try to meet somebody halfway and negotiate with them rather than badgering them and telling them they are going to hell. And nice job working illegal immigrants into your OP! I’d been thinking they were probably the cause of your problem- them and Ted Koppel, of course. (Say, your landlords wouldn’t happen to be… you know…)
I almost moved to an apartment a year ago, but since the names on the lease were changing - I was taking over from a friend who’d lived there for a few years - the rent was going to go up by about $200 a month per person. I had to live with my parents for an extra year, then I got a better paying job and now I’m paying way more than you are for a studio apartment. Life goes on.
I crushing your dog! Then burning.
This is the part that creeps me out. After talking about shooting up their windows:
I have too much fear of what God would do to me if I did that, so I won’t (but otherwise I most certainly would!).
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Got news for you buddy - even really, really good tenants get rent increases.