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Old 06-04-2005, 01:48 PM   #1
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Rental Rates?

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.
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Old 06-04-2005, 01:50 PM   #2
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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.
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Old 06-04-2005, 02:00 PM   #3
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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?
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Old 06-04-2005, 03:50 PM   #4
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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.
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Old 06-04-2005, 03:55 PM   #5
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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.

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Old 06-04-2005, 06:49 PM   #6
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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.
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