Anonymous raged 12 months ago ——
I put this in Crappy Companies but I wish you had an category for landlords.
I've lived in this apartment complex five years, pay the rent on time or even early, never do anything against the lease, have loud and late parties or bother any one. I keep my apartment clean and it looks nice and neat all the time. So I guess this makes me a good tenant right?
No it dosn't. If it did my landlord might be more fair with me.
When I moved in here five years ago, the rent was $1200 a month. I had to pay two months rent plus another months rent as fees for background checks, and other bullshit charges that I couldn't figure out - total of $3600. But its a nice complex so I paid up.
Every year, they raise the rent about 6% with a couple of other sneaky increases for "taxes" and "maintenance" and assorted bullshit nickle and dime increases. This all adds up to about 9% a year. And each time they raise the rent, the bastards also ask for an equal percentage to add to my security deposit so it "remains current with my monthly rental payment".
So now I'm paying like $1,690.00 per fucking month. And in all this time, they have not painted nor done one fucking thing to improve this place or done any maintenance at all inside my apartment! And I pay all my own utilities except trash collection.
So my complaint is this. I saw this same complex advertizing in one of those rental books. The same fucking apartment I have and it was advertizing for $1200.00 a month!!! Wtf? These landlord mother fuckers are giving newcomers a huge fucking break and making me pay through the fucking nose! What the fuck is up with this shit? They should charge them more and give good long term tenants a fucking break!
When I asked them about this shit at the management office, they just said they were charging new renters below the rental market rate to remain competitive, and once they were here they'd be paying the same percentage increases as me. But The New People Are Still Getting A Better Deal, Because It Will Be Five More Fucking Years Before They Are Paying What I Am Paying Now!!!!! Fuck!!!!!
Sorry about this long rant but these greedy fuckers have made me have it. I'm going to check out some "competitive" rates at another complex.
Angry tenant - moving on.