Rent Increase
Location: Pleasanton, California
My partner and I are currently renting a one bedroom for $2700. An acquaintance of ours is renting a townhouse from the same apartment complex (2 bed 2.5) They claim their rent is $3500. They need to move and have 3 months left on their lease and would like to move asap.
We emailed the leasing office and stated we were interested and this was their response:
#1234 has not submitted their notice to vacate so the apartment is not on the market, unfortunately without them being on notice we wont be able to let you know what the price is or when it would be available. Currently, we have another townhome #1236 for $4,257 and #1235 for $4,532. It could be more or less, just depends on the market when they give notice.
How transfers work:
In the last 30 days of your lease agreement you can transfer penalty free
If in the middle of your lease agreement, it is a 1 month fee to break your lease to transfer (although if youre upgrading, corporate can possibly waive this but we would have to ask if you wanted to proceed)
You'll upload income to show 3x the rent for the new apartment home youd like to rent
And then everything else would just be similar to move in, pg&e etc 🙂
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Is there any legal way we can avoid a $1500-$1832 rent increase?