How can I persuade my landlord to not raise my rent?

Answer 1

Just say that if he/she raises the rent, you'll have to move. If they want to keep you as a tenant, then they'll work with you. If not, you need to leave. Try to buy a condo instead - interest rates are low, and in 3 years, it'll be lower than your rent would have been per month.

Answer 2

When you receive notice of a rent increase, you have three options:
1. Pay the rent increase and stay,
2. Refuse the increase and look for another place to live, or
3. Stay and challenge the increase.

If you feel that the landlord's proposed rent increase is illegal or unreasonable and want to keep your apartment, there are a number of ways you may be able to challenge or renegotiate the increase.
a. Renegotiate Unfair Increases - landlords are not legally equired to negotiate with tenants but you may be able to convince a landlord to reconsider the amount of the increase. If you have a good relationship with the landlord s/he may want to keep you as a tenant. You may also be able to persuade a landlord that because of certain bad conditions in the apartment you should not have to pay an increase.
b. Get Other Tenants to Fight the Increase - If you live in a building with other tenants try to find out whether they too have received a rent increase notice. If you are the only one who has received notice consider asking your landlord why this is so. If others have received notices, you may want to talk to them about how together you can put pressure on the landlord not to raise the rent as much (or at all). The more people there are challenging a rent increase the more likely a landlord may be
to agree to lower the increase.

If there are poor conditions in your apartment that violate the state sanitary code and you have documented and notified your landlord about these conditions you may legally withhold some or all of your rent. This strategy may bring the landlord to the bargaining table to discuss both a repair schedule and lessening the amount of the proposed rent increase. In return for necessary repairs and a more reasonable rent increase you could agree to stop withholding your rent. Your landlord, however may also try to evict you for non-payment of rent. But if you have properly withheld your rent you will have protected yourself against being evicted. You will also have a strong claim that your landlord is evicting you in retaliation for withholding your rent. There are specific requirements that you need to follow before you withhold your rent.

Answer 3

Have you paid your rent consistently on time?

Have you lived there for 2 yrs or more?

Are there many empty rental properties in your same building that he owns?

Are there many empty rental properties in your neighborhood that he does NOT own?

Have you kept his home nice?

Have you painted or made other improvements?

Have you helped with lawn care?

Is there a job you could you for him (cutting the grass) in exchange for the rent he would like to charge?

Have you always been respectful, quiet, and not a problem for him or other tennants?


You can use all or some of these as points to try to convince him to 1. keep you and 2. not raise your rent.


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Answer 4

It is a business, so probably nothing unless you live in a rent control area. If you don't you pay the rental increase or they evict you, unless you are very lucky and he feels sorry for you, but I doubt that would happen since $$ always comes first.

Answer 5

regrettably for you and your human beings, you have a confusing time looking a LL to lease to you in view which you're all single human beings. maximum LL's do no longer opt to lease to a team of youthful single human beings for the very reasons you stated. 6-365 days condo background isn't probable sufficient to ascertain your stability. How good is your credit? How approximately your fiancee and roommates' credit? the greater efficient your credit scores and background are, the greater efficient threat you have. you ought to furnish a number of of of a few issues to help your possibilities: a million. greater secure practices deposit 2. Prepay various months lease 3. furnish a hire guarantor.

Answer 6

You can negotiate, and the nuclear weapon is a threat to move. But if you can't find replacement accommodations at an acceptable price, it is an empty threat. Presumably the owner has researched the market and knows what the place is worth.

Answer 7

You could offer to clean the place.. like rake leaves and plow the snow.. and stuff like that.. helping with the maintenence of the house would help, and if you're handy, you can fix things like clogged toilets, dripping faucets, and replacing light bulbs.. etc..

Answer 8

Tell him you won't be able to afford it and that you'll have to move if her raises the rent.

Answer 9

you can always try the one tried and true way to keep your rent the same price, however, it is illegal in most states.

Answer 10

do some work for him on the property.