Not asking for donations, i just want to vent

$100 for 2 application fees, a $9 "service fee"each to pay for the application fee

$30 pet registration fee, with a $9 “service fee” to pay the $30

$400 pet deposit

$1500 damage deposit with a $50 “service fee” to pay that

$1500 first month rent

This is all for the cheapest 1 bedroom apt I could find this is insane. Also why was a 10 month lease like $300 a month cheaper than a longer lease? They’re gonna bump the rent up at least that much after aren’t they?

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    As someone who was recently apartment hunting & was going through the same kind of bullshit my heart goes out to you.

    Also why was a 10 month lease like $300 a month cheaper than a longer lease? They’re gonna bump the rent up at least that much after aren’t they?

    Hahaha this shit pissed me off during my search. It’s always 10, 12, or 14 month leases too. At least - in my area - I assumed the 10 month leases were geared towards like, students since there is a university nearby but even that doesn’t really make much sense because what college student is like “ah I don’t really wanna sign a year lease, wish I could just do 10 months”??? Anyways one of the places I toured had one of those rent estimate/available units widgets on their site, which I’d spent a good 20 minutes fucking with to see what the cheapest possible rent for their 1br/1ba 500sqft apartments were - the cheapest iirc was like $1300/mo for 14 months.

    So when the apartment manager led me back to her front office after giving me a tour and pulled out a printed out table showing the monthly rent for each floorplan based on a 10 month/12 month/14 month lease and the additional trash pickup & other reoccurring fees, I asked “I’m totally willing to sign a 24 month lease, can I get some sort of discount on the monthly rent?” and she literally laughed as if I were joking before going dean-frown ‘No we don’t do that sort of thing here.’

    Anyways I still occasionally get emails from them because she put my info into their system despite me literally getting up and walking out as soon as she said no. Death to all landlords (especially my current ones who are…were? idk i try not to think about it…my fucking friends and yet aren’t exactly giving me a deal. ‘But ABC we’re not charging you market rate - you’re literally just paying the monthly mortgage amount’ they try to tell me, as if that doesn’t mean I’m literally paying for them to own this apartment in perpetuity meanwhile they could theoretically evict me at any time…i will not spare them from the wall despite knowing them for over a decade and that’s why I play the lottery like once a month) normal