I live in a "5 star rated" apartment complex and the leasing/property management is constantly removing reviews/photos, so I would go in person to scope places out if possible.
Yeah I'd be careful, especially with the "affordable " apartments. I went for affordable and ended up with roaches. I luckily got out of my lease. Scoop it out. Look at tall the reviews f4om every site.
I actually built a website to aid in the apartment hunting process.
It's like a Glassdoor for Rents so tenants can see the Rent History of an address or Apartment property to see a landlords pricing tactics and how or if they raise rents.
The site does rely on user submissions so I appreciate anyone who adds their rent history to the site and/or shares it around since it can be more useful to tenants the more people that contribute to it.
The site is [rentzed.com](http://rentzed.com) (USA only for now) and has submissions for over 3,400 addresses.
It could indicate to a tenant or prospective tenant if a landlord will raise rent, by how much, and/or how often. Maybe that causes someone to choose one landlord over another.
Sometimes, landlords will also charge older or newer tenants different rents for the same unit, so a tenant or prospective tenant might be able to negotiate rent down based on that info.
It's not guaranteed to work but some people are willing to try to negotiate and some could succeed in doing so. I've heard plenty of stories of people negotiating rent successfully. It seems that it's actually easier to do it with larger landlords.
Are you familiar with LRO? That’s the software most large apartment management companies use to generate their daily pricing they provide on their website. Shouldn’t you be able to create a system that actively monitors and saves the daily price and include that’s on your site? Once you have done this after a year, you would then be able to see what the previous person rented it for after they have confirmed they aren’t renewing their lease.
I worked in multi family for a large apartment management company. Every month we would send out renewals for lease expiring within 3 months. Each person would email us if they want to renew. If they wished to negotiate, our corporate office provided us with an excel doc that shows if there is any negotiation room. If there was we could offer it, if there wasn’t we couldn’t.
I live in a "5 star rated" apartment complex and the leasing/property management is constantly removing reviews/photos, so I would go in person to scope places out if possible.
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Yeah I'd be careful, especially with the "affordable " apartments. I went for affordable and ended up with roaches. I luckily got out of my lease. Scoop it out. Look at tall the reviews f4om every site.
I actually built a website to aid in the apartment hunting process. It's like a Glassdoor for Rents so tenants can see the Rent History of an address or Apartment property to see a landlords pricing tactics and how or if they raise rents. The site does rely on user submissions so I appreciate anyone who adds their rent history to the site and/or shares it around since it can be more useful to tenants the more people that contribute to it. The site is [rentzed.com](http://rentzed.com) (USA only for now) and has submissions for over 3,400 addresses.
What purpose does seeing the previous rent and rent increase provide? The management company could increase dramatically the following year.
It could indicate to a tenant or prospective tenant if a landlord will raise rent, by how much, and/or how often. Maybe that causes someone to choose one landlord over another. Sometimes, landlords will also charge older or newer tenants different rents for the same unit, so a tenant or prospective tenant might be able to negotiate rent down based on that info. It's not guaranteed to work but some people are willing to try to negotiate and some could succeed in doing so. I've heard plenty of stories of people negotiating rent successfully. It seems that it's actually easier to do it with larger landlords.
Are you familiar with LRO? That’s the software most large apartment management companies use to generate their daily pricing they provide on their website. Shouldn’t you be able to create a system that actively monitors and saves the daily price and include that’s on your site? Once you have done this after a year, you would then be able to see what the previous person rented it for after they have confirmed they aren’t renewing their lease.
A couple other people have mentioned this. I think it could be a good idea. There's a good chance I'll work on adding that to the site when I can.
I worked in multi family for a large apartment management company. Every month we would send out renewals for lease expiring within 3 months. Each person would email us if they want to renew. If they wished to negotiate, our corporate office provided us with an excel doc that shows if there is any negotiation room. If there was we could offer it, if there wasn’t we couldn’t.