My lease is up in December, and although I would like to stay in my current apartment, I will need to negotiate a rent reduction with my landlord in order to make that possible.<\/p>\n
I live in a rental building with three units, all with almost identical floorplans. I live in the top floor unit, which is a 6 story walk up. The other two lower floor apartments were rented 1-2 months after I signed my lease, for about 12% less than what I am currently paying. At most, I do not want to pay more than the other tenants. In any case, I think that I can do better elsewhere, and although I hate to go through the hassle of moving, I will move if I can’t get the rent reduced. My changed financial position during the last year, along with unexpectedly high heating and cooling bills in the apartment make this a necessity. <\/p>\n
I was wondering if anyone has had luck recently with negotiating a rent reduction, and if so, how you approached it – did you put your request in writing, provide other apartment listings to show similar apartments, discuss your personal financial concerns, or just keep it simple? The situation is somewhat complicated by the fact that my landlord can be really nutty – he once repeatedly cursed at me and screamed “I’m not your slave” into the phone at me when I called to report that water was pouring through the ceiling and I requested his help, and then a few days later approached me on the street wanted to coo over my baby and pinch his cheeks. Needless to say, I don’t want to get into another screaming match with him.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My lease is up in December, and although I would like to stay in my current apartment, I will need to negotiate a rent reduction with my landlord in order to make that possible. I live in a rental building with three units, all with almost identical floorplans. I live in the top floor unit,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-36965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renters"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/10\/negotiating-ren-1\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Negotiating Rent Reduction","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/10\/negotiating-ren-1\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/10\/negotiating-ren-1\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Renters","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"snowbunny"}],"creator":["snowbunny"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-10-13T13:39:08Z","datePublished":"2009-10-13T13:39:08Z","dateModified":"2009-10-17T18:06:28Z"},"rendered":"