Posted by Noa on May 18, 2000, at 9:10:09
In reply to Re: Noa, One more thing, posted by Greg on May 17, 2000, at 19:27:32
I did not feel discounted at all. Thanks.
I guess what I worry about if I call the management, is this: This is a condo unit. The owner has been good in that I had two one-year leases in a row with no rent increase, which is very unusual around here. He is now asking for an increase, which is ok, but he seems to have made an error in his letter to me. He wrote that he is increasing the rent from 795/mo to 825/mo. Well, I don't pay 795, I pay 695. So, I think it is just a typo, and we have been trading phone messages, and I haven't spoken to him about it yet. After the first lease ended, he had planned to visit and see how I was keeping the place, and said that if I am keeping it well, he would not raise the rent. I scrambled to clean it last year, with a good friend's help, but the owner ended up cancelling because of an unexpected business trip he had to go on. Anyway, I am a bit worried now that if the condo management, maintenance, whatever, has told my owner how the place looks, that when I call, the owner is going to say that he feels a need to raise it to 825 (not 725, as I think he originally meant). In this market, he can do that. Things have gotten very expensive in the past year. I cannot affort 825.
I know it sounds far fetched, but I am feeling paranoid.
I am thinking about calling the owner first, and if I can clear all that up, then I will call the condo office to complain about coming in to my unit just for a running toilet.
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