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Rent increase limit

josh — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:23:08 +0000

hey every body i just moved in with my grilfriend and her landlord jacked the rent up two hundred dollors can they do that. I would think there is some type of rent increase limit. Otherwise how can someone even afford to rent. Its crazy that my landlord wants to charge me for having an extra person move-in.

If I have a 2 bedroom apartment, wouldn’t it be logical for me to have two people live in the re

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Rent Increases

Heath Conn — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:43:58 +0000

I have been at this same complex for amost 3 years. My apartment complex has upgraded all the appliances and now when my lease is up in September they are increasing my rent to almost 12%. I will be paying $85.00 rent increase to help pay for the appliances. By law shouldnt the owner of any apartment complex pay for any upgrades every year or when needed? My rent now is $659.00 and they have increased it to $744.00 if I sign a new lease at the end of September. I cant afford that or to move. Can they negotiate the price? How am I protected? I love where I live and I dont want to move.

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Raised rent after two weeks

Tenant — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:09:44 +0000

Two weeks ago I moved in with my mother and her boyfriend. The deal was that I was going to stay there for no longer than 6 months to save for a down payment on a house. I had offered to pay some rent but the insisted I don’t because they currently were not paying the mortgage because they were working out a deal with the bank. They said at the most I could just pay the water bill. Now they want to charge me $300 and my boyfriend (who spends the night with me) $100 because they say the electricity bill has tripled since I have been there. I have only been there 2 weeks so there is no way my usage is even on the statemnet right!?! and I am litterally there just to sleep I get home after 9pm and leave before 7am. I have a place to move today but they want the money today. What are my legal rights?

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Maximum rent increase

Jeanette — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:44:34 +0000

We live in Glendale, CA and the manager raised our rent 100 dollars this year is this legal!?

He always raised it 50 or 60 but not 100. Is there a maximum rent increase?

The landlord’s wife told one of the tenants that he (the landlord) was collecting money from us, for their son’s girlfriend who lives with them. This is not legal!

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Increase in rent?

One Hurtin' Hokie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:53:53 +0000

I’m a student at Virginia Tech, and this year I’m living in the same apartment complex as I was last year. Because of roommate changes, I will now be living with a different number of roommates, and therefore we had to sign a new lease for a new apartment. In December we signed a lease saying that we would be paying X amount of rent per month for a 2 bedroom, unrennovated apartment. In April we signed the lease again, but this time for the specific apartment unit.

Now, 16 days before the lease is scheduled to start, the landlord has called us up to tell us that they made a mistake, forgot to put us into the system, and gave our apartment away to someone else. They told us that they are willing to move us to the last 2 bedroom apartment they have available, but because the new one is a rennovated apartment, they will be an increase in rent; an extra $18 a month. This is despite the fact that the new apartment is, in our opinion, in a much worse location than the original apartment we were supposed to have.

Now, I understand that logistically, there are people in what was going to be our apartment, and the landlord really can’t do anything about it now. So my roommate and I are willing to move to the new apartment, but we don’t want to pay extra for an apartment that we feel is in a worse location than the original one. We could really care less about the rennovations. The lease they signed specifies the amount we have to pay. We talked to them about this, and they told us that while the lease doesn’t give them permission to raise the rent, it doesn’t forbid them from raising the rent either.

My question is, What can I do about this? According to Virginia housing law, “No unilateral change in the terms of a rental agreement by a landlord or tenant shall be valid unless (i) notice of the change is given in accordance with the terms of the rental agreement or as otherwise required by law and (ii) both parties consent in writing to the change.” But the housing law also says that “. If the tenant does not sign and deliver a written rental agreement signed and delivered to him by the landlord, acceptance of possession or payment of rent without reservation gives the rental agreement the same effect as if it had been signed and delivered by the tenant.”

So, as I see it, the landlord is illegally changing the lease – because we have no time to find a new place to live, our plan is to pay the rent, but try and get a lawyer involved and make the landlord company abide by the contract they signed. But by moving in to the new apartment, are we giving our legal agreement to abide by a new lease (for more rent) even if we don’t sign anything? Can we deliver our rent to the landlord along with a letter stating that despite the fact that we are paying all of what they are charging us, we still believe that they are in the wrong and we will be investigating legal action against them? Would that be enough to say that we didn’t give our legal agreement to a new, unsigned lease?

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