I've lived in the North Park apartment complex (off of Duraleigh) for a year, my lease is up in May and they're raising my rent by $50 a month, which is almost 10%. Anyone else live here? If so, how much did your rent go up lease to lease? Does this sound crazy to anyone else?!

3/3/2007 4:08:11 PM

Bargaining/bitching to them is not illegal. Some apts will let the new lease price slide and let you stay with the old rates, some wont. You gotta get the results yourself and talk to management, I dont live there so I dont know exactly. If you've never caused any problems or put in a lot of work orders to fix stuff in your apt, use that to your advantage to ask them to keep you at the old rate if you sign another 12 mo lease. You can threaten to leave to try as well, but be prepared to actually do so as backup if you really cant take the extra 50 a month.

I dunno, I'm not a doctor.

3/3/2007 5:18:36 PM

Yeah bargain with them and tell them the increase is going to cause you to move out. A lot of places do this because they hope you will just pay it since you already live there and don't want to be inconvienced with finding another place to live. If this is what there doing they may change there tune when you tell them your going to move.

The key question is how popular your apartment complex is (are all the units full). If it is they probably won't budge since they can just get someone to move in at the higher rate.



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3/3/2007 6:00:01 PM

A lot of times they ask for 10% when they are really aiming for 5-6%. Like above, the popularity of the complex makes a lot of difference. Go sit down with them manager and tell him/her that it sounds a little high. You might want to get a couple of quotes for comparable apartments to show both that the rate is too high and that you've already done the homework necessary to move out. In addition, you might want to call up pretending to be interested in renting from North Park to see what they are charging new tenants.

3/3/2007 6:13:59 PM