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Q: When you resigned your housing contract did your landlord raise the rent?
If so by how much? Can you bargain?
I managed my family's rent a room before, I raise the rent yearly. Its inevitable due to inflation, but I only raise it according to the yearly inflation rate in my country. I think its a fair price don't you think so ?
mike695ca:
Nope,I dont. There is alot of value in having someone who will stay long term. You trust that your house will be looked after, you dont lose potentially months of rent looking for new tenants and you dont have tondo any work to find them. Which is precisely why your rent gets cheaper if you sign a contract for over a year. Even in China.
china except tier one cities will become a renters paradise for bargaining, when the landlord raises the rent, just say no problem, somebody in the building cant make their payment and has offered me a discount, dont even have to rent a truck, when would like me to move, the landlord will relent,
in jinan 3 training schools have moved for rent discounts annually of about 35 percent in the last 2 years, too many office buildings empty, which also has illegal residents living in them cheaper than a real residential neighborhood.
some places are going to get really cheap very quickly, live by the boom, die by the bust.
I think that finding a landlord who isn't a piece of shit is one of the top-3 factors in picking an apartment. Yeah of course some trashy farmland buyout king will try and raise the rent and keep your deposit because that ONE asset probably supports 5 working age adults (who had to spend your deposit the second they got it) who consider themselves too good for the jobs they can get now that someone in their family is a "Big city apartment owner!"
If you rent from an intelligent professional...they'll take good care of you. My landlord is a VP at Citigroup and a really smart, decent guy. He knows that a guy like me isn't going to bring a swarm with me to trash the place and that a foreign couple will take pride in their apartment so we don't look like losers in front of our friends.
To a smart local person a foreigner is a tenant to be cherished as we'll help protect his investment. To an idiot we're cash cows to be milked in support of their lazy families. Important to find a smart landlord.
I've been in the same place for almost 3 years. Only had 1 're-sign', and that's cos the local police wanted to see a new contract before giving a Temp Res permit.
No changes in rent.
but then, she's an English teacher, who's been to Canada for study. We get on fairly well, and don't cause each other any problems 
