Rental Rates?

[Airhog]

Do most apartments try to screw you over on your rental rate? Case in point

We decide to transfer to a larger 2 bedroom apartment. So I go fill out a new lease, etc, etc. She tells me that my rent is going to be 504 a month. I get on the website and confirm that the rate for summer is 504 a month. Now I happen to go back and look at the website. The rate for summer has dropped to 435 a month, and now the fall rate is 500 a month. Is this just a scam to get people in? I mean, if I went a signed a lease today, I would imagine they would say that the Fall rate applied, not the summer rate.

At any rate, I sent them an e-mail expressing my displeasure in this matter. I doubt that they will lower my rent any, but I figure it was worth a shot. If I hadnt already put down 200 dollars as a deposit, I would simply find a different complex to live in.

[cartman]

Do most apartments try to screw you over on your rental rate?

In most college towns, yes. They have a captive market, and one that also sends in new clients every semester.

[JeeberD]

Rent changes depending upon how many open apartments they have. Maybe they had a bunch of people move out recently and had to drop rent to try and fill the vacancies?

[Airhog]

Maybe so, but it still pisses me off to no end that I signed a lease, and not 5 days after I signed it, they lower their rates.

[MizzouRah]

I hate apartments. Convienent? Definitly.. but they try to scam you anyway they can.. especially when you try to recover your full deposit. I'm so glad those days are over.

Good luck. :)


Todd

[AZSpeechCoach]

I lived in a complex for about 6 years, which was a nightmare detailed on several threads here, and one thing I found out was that they raised my rent by $10-20 each year, but kept the starting rent the same. So, by the end, I was paying nearly $100 more than if I had been a new renter. I did complain, and had a few years of no increase, but that was one of the factors that drove me out. I would have been better off moving each year. Screw loyalty.