This rent increase stuff is a bunch of baloney. if you learned anything the last 5 years, it is not to trust the MSM and RE industry reporting of any sort of facts and statistics. Give me a break, people are reporting increased *asking* prices from Craigslist as significant statistics. That’s pure crap.
You can’t prevent landlords from fishing on Craigslist. Whether thery are going to get their numbers is a whole different story.