Why U.S. renters are taking corporate landlords to court
Why U.S. renters are taking corporate landlords to court
U.S. landlords who use RealPage products to set prices on rental apartments are facing accusations of collusion.
- A group of lawsuits accuse large landlords of price-fixing the market rate of rent in the United States
- A complaint filed by Washington D.C.’s Attorney General alleges 14 landlords in the district are sharing competitively sensitive data through RealPage, a real estate software provider
- RealPage recommends prices for roughly 4.5 million housing units in the United States
- RealPage told CNBC that its landlord customers are under no obligation to take their price suggestions
A group of renters in the U.S. say their landlords are using software to deliver inflated rent hikes.
“We’ve been told as tenants by employees of Equity that the software takes empathy out of the equation. So they can charge whatever the software tells them to charge,” said Kevin Weller, a tenant at Portside Towers since 2021.
Tenants say the management started to increase prices substantially after giving renters concessions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Haha I'm in this picture!
One was small claims court. They kept my security, tried to charge me a exit fee and demanded I pay more for cleanup. Then a late fee for refusing to pay! The idiots sent a manager over to small claims to defend it, who was literally out of her element. The judge kept going, "Where in the lease does it say that?" And this dummy manager didn't know anything, forcing the court to give me my security deposit and drop the fees.
The other was threatening small claims court for an $2k because they ignored my email of my exit date, and tried to charge me a extra month. They immediately "found all my paperwork" all of a sudden and dropped it.
These fuckers are absolutely nickeling and diming people. And more people should be ready to flood the courts with their bullshit.
My uncle is a landlord.
He has NEVER had to pay a security deposit back. The judges in this small town always side with him.
Your uncle is a scum lord
Sounds like a cunt 👍
Justice comes for everyone eventually 😘
Does it though? I can point to thousands of people that justice never came for.
I personally believe that when Christ returns, he'll establish a fair equitable and just society here on earth, then resurrect everyone, inviting them to participate.
In that society justice will be served, but that's not really hope for people suffering now.
Yeah we have to build the torment nexus.
Bro, hell isnt in the bible, death is just death, a ton of verses describe it as 'sleep'.
Death very obviously isn't justice. It's just sleep.
... the torment nexus isn't justice either but it's fun to think about.
It certainly does.
You might have misread that 🤭
You might have misread what I was saying. 🥴🤒😵💫😮💨
Is it your fault one of your relatives is a jackass?
I'd be ashamed to even tell anyone I was related to a l*ndlord
Good for you. Your shame would be misplaced. What my uncle does has nothing to do with me.
Like, holy shit you’ve made me angry, as I sit here in my shitty roach infested apartment looking at my paystub where the rent comes out of my check automatically every week, listening to my upstairs neighbor’s dog barking, waiting on her to drop off her rent so I can give it to my uncle later.
Maybe don’t add information where there is none genius.
You literally just declared "my uncle is a landlord" with no additional information. What did you expect?
You’re right. I should have expected mouth breathing communist crusaders to think I was bragging… on Lemmy of all places.
lemmy.world has a certain reputation
Glad we cleared that up though 👍
Just stop. You’ve already embarrassed yourself by adding information to a comment to suite your worldview because you can’t think outside of whatever hole you were indoctrinated in. It’s all enemies and allies to folks like you.
You know, the ones too brain dead to lead, but foaming at the mouth just enough to run around looking for folks to purge for the big boys.
That’s the exact same thing right wingers on Facebook do. The only difference for you is you didn’t click on some right wing link when you were 14. Otherwise you’d just be a Nazi and I would’ve never met you.
See how much information I can make up when I stop thinking and just talk out of my ass?
Reread this conversation. I never actually attacked you. I just implied that your uncle is going to get whats coming to him, and sure, I misunderstood you but that's all. I don't think the crime of "related to a landlord" means you deserve to be sent to a gulag lol
Now you're crawling up my ass because we had a miscommunication. I still say anyone who is related to a landlord should denounce them clearly, but now that the miscommunication is cleared up we have no problems. You don't have to be so mad. 🙃
Congrats? The fuck you want a cookie?
I think his point is about judges being corrupt. He has information useful to us and he's not mentioned how he feels about his uncle. No point being mean to him.
He kind of just said it with no comment so I assumed he was bragging about it. But you're right I'll head over to say sorry.
Sure, moron.
I’ll take a cookie.
Like it’s my fault or something.
Sorry man, I was in a bad mood and took it out on you.