Landlords who keep increasing rent in a month to month lease.

That's the nature of month to month. Ask to enter into a year long lease.

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what is the point of having a lease if you can just jack the rent up whenever you feel like it?

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You are month to month. If you want protection against rate increases sign up for a year instead.

i had a similar experience once

i had lived in the same apartment for 4 years and we were buying a house so i asked to do month to month for a couple of months until closing was done

she said, thats fine, but the rent is 100 more each month and i said that sounds fine

so the next month i added 100 bucks to my payment, and then paid the same the next month and she said i underpaid and hit me with a late fee

what i didnt understand is that each month it went up 100 bucks, not just 100 more per month than the original lease

this situation was different in that they had many vacant apartments, its not like they had someone lined up for mine

left a bad taste in my mouth for sure, i got the hell out as quick as we could