[quote=svelte][quote=Escoguy]
Then our apartment manager raised our rent for our 2BR from $1050 to $1150 when our initial six month lease was up.
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lol this was part of what drove us to buy our first place in 1989.
My wife told me that the Gold Coast Apartments where we lived said they were going to raise our rent by (can’t remember, $100?) I said that’s it we’re outta here. So she found us condos to look at and we bought. I wanted something as close to a SFR as we could get so she found us a 3/2 townhouse.
When my wife went to the rental office to give notice, the owner was also there. He asked her why we were leaving and she said “because you’re raising our rent by $xxx!”. He looked a little surprised she knew and gave an angry glance at the manager.
The next day we had a BBQ with our upstairs neighbors and told them the whole conversation. The bf half of the couple who worked construction said “WHAT?” he didn’t know about the rent increase. He looked at his gf and said “well we’re out of here too!”.[/quote]
The irony is those apartment managers changed the trajectory of your lives
The irony is those apartment managers changed the trajectory of your lives[/quote]
Totally agree!
And even more ironic than that? The rent increase never happened! We stayed friends with many in that complex and they would come over to visit…their rent didn’t go up as I recall.
The word probably got out and either there was a mini-mutiny in the office or too many ppl gave notice. Not sure what happened, but as you say the simple notion that we would be paying more changed our trajectory…
It’s often the little things you do in life magnified by the passage of time that make the big differences in your life. I’ve seen far too many people put all their eggs in one big crash basket waiting for that one big opportunity and then be paralyzed by fear when anything close to it arrives. In life it’s the road less traveled, the ripples across a pool from a pebble dropped in on the other side. Take that scaredy!
[quote=sdrealtor] In life it’s the road less traveled, the ripples across a pool from a pebble dropped in on the other side. Take that scaredy![/quote]
[quote=sdrealtor]It’s often the little things you do in life magnified by the passage of time that make the big differences in your life. I’ve seen far too many people put all their eggs in one big crash basket waiting for that one big opportunity and then be paralyzed by fear when anything close to it arrives. In life it’s the road less traveled, the ripples across a pool from a pebble dropped in on the other side. Take that scaredy![/quote]
