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I bought my 3 back in early Fall of last year with 65k miles on it. The tires it came with had almost 90% of their tread left so I never thought anything of it. They were Goodyear Eagle Sports, and they appeared to be brand new.

Fast forward a few months and I noticed some cracking on the edge of the tread, which I thought was weird since the tires still had all of their little whiskers on them. Decided to check the DOT codes and found that they were manufactured in 2020, 2020, 2021 and 2024. So 3/4 were super old even though they’d barely been driven on.

I just picked it up from the tire shop after buying a set of Continental Extremecontact DWS06’s and holy fucking shit. Not only is the ride quieter and smoother (which I expected going from an old set of mid-tier tires to a brand new set of top tier ones) but it shifts SO much better now.

Everything I thought was just a quirk of the car with its light weight and modest engine size up to this point in terms of jerkiness, hesitation and clunky shifts has completely disappeared. I had no idea that tires would make such a difference in the feel of the transmission, but it’s night and day.

I was already happy with the car and had gotten used to driving it the way it was. But now it’s a whole new machine. I’m still in awe of how bad my old set must have really been to affect the driving experience that negatively even though they looked fine.

I rent from Tricon Residential, and my lease is up for renewal in August. The market in my area is in a freefall. There are houses popping up all around me on a daily basis that are literally double the square footage for the same price I'm currently paying for a house that they already misrepresented as being 200 square feet larger than it actually is in the original listing.

Here's the thing. I hate moving and I don't want to deal with the hassle. I like my house. It's plenty big for me at this point in my life and the location is as good as I can ask for in the price range. But I cannot justify paying so much over market for it upon renewal.

Assuming that giant corporate shitlords like Tricon tend not to make a habit of lowering rents upon renewal, has anyone had luck with negotiating? I just watched them drop the list price of another house they have on the market down the street from me over $300 in a couple of weeks because nobody was applying, so I know for a fact that if mine became vacant there's no way they'd get anything close to what I pay now out of the next guy.

Is there any hope for a negotiation to get a fair market rate on my renewal, or are they just going to call my bluff and tell me to move out if I don't like their offer?