I just think this entire request was hysterically funny. I would never jack up rents for the sake of jacking up rents to squeeze every penny out of a tenant but what do people think, that I run a charity or something here?
I mean, I really don’t mind if he moves out. It would be funny, because there’s moving cost out for him, there’s storage costs while he’s gone for 2 months, and then there’s moving cost back into a new place. Not to mention time wasted, which I guess for him isn’t very valuable.
I bet when he comes back he is going to ask for a rental price decrease, his argument being that his wife and kid is going to stay overseas for 6 months and he’s living alone so he doesn’t need the full 1/1 and can move into a single room in a house. I’m already prepared for that. Fine, go for it. You do that and pay… $1550 these days for a 1 bedroom in someone’s single family house and explain to your wife when she comes back in 6 months why you did that…
How cheap can one try to get?
Dude, please move out in that case. Like Quickly so I can rent the damn place for $200-250/month more to the next person that will stay for 4-5 years… Works out way better for me in the long run.
