Just needed to vent. My rent has increased 28% in the last year, and it feels like it should be illegal. I moved into this place last year because it was the cheapest rent for 50+ miles. I get paid less than minimum wage and work for tips, and I've already been struggling to make rent on time for the last 4 months. I'm making less money than I was last year, and can barely afford groceries and gas. Now the property management company informs me 5 days before my lease is up that I have to pay $100 more per month if I want to stay here.
I looked up renter's laws in my state, and it's actually prohibited to impose rent controls. There's no laws to dictate how much notice they have to give you, or how much they're allowed to increase rent by. It just feels super fucked up, and I feel bleak af about my outlook. Fortunately, I've sent in 60+ job applications and have a couple interviews scheduled next week. So hopefully I'll be able to afford this a little easier soon, but it definitely doesn't feel good right now.
At some point people are going to have to mask up and start intimidating if not outright beating and/or burning the property of these people. I've thought so many times of throwing a brick through the property manager's window, maybe write "rent increase" on it in sharpie. Not trying to fed post here, I'm just frustrated and at some point... idk y'all. Mao didn't personally kill all those landlords and waiting for him to come back isn't going to kill any more of them.
Seriously, this shit can't go on forever. Landlords aren't scared to raise rent and push people onto the street because there aren't any repercussions.
The last place I lived increased rent by around 40% and tried giving us a 30 day notice when it's 60 days by law. Definitely had me fantasizing about physical retaliation.
My landlord listens to every petty little thing I get angry about, lets me live rent free and tries very hard to understand my ideology. She doesn't shame me for being unemployed, and only wishes for me to be happy.
But she refuses to buy anything other than Maxwell House. MAXWELL HOUSE! DAMN IT MOM I CAN'T DRINK THIS SLOP.
Basically about to be facing an increase of around 150$ a month. Also changed rooms for another fairly low income friend and took a pricier room, so it's been a lot for me. I'm kind of stressed by it but I guess it's just the norm. More work, more stress.
Been insanely depressed the last year and I don't see this as being particularly helpful but I don't have a lot of solutions as to what to do besides to grind my ass off or to move to somewhere cheaper where I know literally nobody instead of living with friends.
Solidarity, comrade. That's a tough situation, and it doesn't sound too different from the spot I'm in. I hope it gets easier for you, eventually. :heart-sickle:
It won't get better unless I land on some better ways to make money or we suddenly have a liquidation of landlords. Not that I even hate my landlord, she's just managing the property her parents bought to generate generational wealth like so many other like minded people (she's really fine, much better than dealing with other landlords or a godforsaken company).
Actually my one particular annoyance is that we have a single unit that's kinda below our house that's going unused despite us telling her we have friends that would live there. Shes just using it as storage because she can't be arsed to fill it. Wish we could convince her to let a friend live there instead of charging us more. Wed even be happy to just tie the lease together
