My lease is up for renewal in April and knowing that I'd get a renewal notice sometime in January, I started keeping track of rental prices for units similar to mine a while back (sometime in Oct'16.) In doing so, I realized that they were being rented out for a similar price to what I was already paying.
Once I received the renewal notice, armed with the data that I had collated it was easy to make a case against the 3% raise that the landlord wanted and ended up negotiating another full year with no increments whatsoever!
This may be a common strategy but I just wanted to put it out there :)
Submitted January 26, 2017 at 04:43PM by sprprime http://ift.tt/2kpL2mg
