Yep. Just got seriously owned by my apartments. They must be laughing at my failure to see what was happening.
Ya'll may remember my financial issues back in Oct/Nov. For a few months I was late on the rent because of that. But I'm mostly straightened out and haven't been late in a while.
In March I was told the apartments wouldn't do another 12 month lease because of the times we were late. Instead they wanted to do a 3 month lease to make sure I was "reliable" again.
Old 12 month lease: $1148 month
New 3 month lease: $1203 month
We were "promised" that the rent would go back down when we signed a new 12 month lease. Of course none of this was in writing - pwnage #1
So the 3 month lease is coming up. We got the letter last week (!) saying the new lease options are:
12 month lease: $1203 month
3 month lease: $1697 month
There's no way I can move by the 1st of July both financially and physically. So I'm stuck. And there's no way I can afford $1700 a month even for 3 months. pwnage #2 When I asked why the rates went up so dramatically, I was told, "We're renting like crazy!"
They obviously knew they were raising the rates during my 3 month lease. And knew they'd be trapping me.
The letter BTW was postmarked on 6/2, so they did send it early enough. But we've had issues with the postal service for the past couple months. It took 3 weeks to get the last 2 utility bills, for example. So it's not the apartments fault I didn't get the letter in time to do anything about it.
It's all my fault for letting them do this to me. But it sooooooo ticks me off. I'm stuck here for 12 months now at $1203 a month because that's my only option.
Ya'll may remember my financial issues back in Oct/Nov. For a few months I was late on the rent because of that. But I'm mostly straightened out and haven't been late in a while.
In March I was told the apartments wouldn't do another 12 month lease because of the times we were late. Instead they wanted to do a 3 month lease to make sure I was "reliable" again.
Old 12 month lease: $1148 month
New 3 month lease: $1203 month
We were "promised" that the rent would go back down when we signed a new 12 month lease. Of course none of this was in writing - pwnage #1
So the 3 month lease is coming up. We got the letter last week (!) saying the new lease options are:
12 month lease: $1203 month
3 month lease: $1697 month
There's no way I can move by the 1st of July both financially and physically. So I'm stuck. And there's no way I can afford $1700 a month even for 3 months. pwnage #2 When I asked why the rates went up so dramatically, I was told, "We're renting like crazy!"
They obviously knew they were raising the rates during my 3 month lease. And knew they'd be trapping me.
The letter BTW was postmarked on 6/2, so they did send it early enough. But we've had issues with the postal service for the past couple months. It took 3 weeks to get the last 2 utility bills, for example. So it's not the apartments fault I didn't get the letter in time to do anything about it.
It's all my fault for letting them do this to me. But it sooooooo ticks me off. I'm stuck here for 12 months now at $1203 a month because that's my only option.
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