Rental Discrimination and Market Conditions

Look over the lease. They should have sufficient reason based on your lease. If you’re confident enough and you got proof that you have already paid those..then file a complaint through RPA to square it out. at least for me that’s the way to go.

The manager at the organization maintaining the property responded to my email and will be calling me to discuss my situation on Monday. I can’t wait to hear his reason for terminating my contract since I have kept the place in outstanding condition and always paid my rent a head of time. At this point in time I can get possible a better place at a lower rent with an extra bathroom. However, the cost of moving – packaging, transportation, and unpackaging all of my items I estimate at being approximately $3,000 to $5000 along with the cleaning an the time it will take to perform these activities. Thus, I feel it is more beneficial to apologize and work with the management here. I will let you know the results of my discussion with him on Monday. Please let me know your thoughts on this issue.

Sincerely,
Michael Presby
(714) 337 9208

I just want to add my two cents too…

As for ending your lease; well, management can choose to not renew your lease for any reason they want. There is no law or requirement to renew your lease. Its a two way street– just as you can choose to not renew your contract, so can they.

I’d be surprised if management really gives you much of a reason. They don’t have too, so why would they? It’s rare for apartment complexes to not renew leases but it does happen. Often times they do it on purpose in order to freshen or remodel units, etc. I’d be interested to see what they tell you… there must be more to the story. Why would they want to terminate your lease if you are paying $200 more per month.

Oh I almost forgot!

As far as the rent pricing is concerned– it doesn’t matter what they charge everyone else. The contract is between you and your landlord. They can lower the rent whenever they want. Think of it like buying apples from the grocery store– if you paid $5 for one apple a week ago and then notice the apple is only $2 today– it doesn’t mean the grocery store has to give you money back from last weeks buy. It simply means that you agreed to pay them $5 for the apple last week. Much like buying an apple is your choice, so is renting an apartment. No one can force you to live there. No one can force you sign the contract. These are all decisions you make on your own. Once you make those decisions, you are committed to them regardless of what changes are made for new tenants, etc.

It may sound logical that they should drop your rent too… but its a money thing. If you agreed to pay $1400 then that’s what they will hold you to. There is no reason why they would want to charge you less. It seems like there should be an equalization law– but there isn’t.