All the ladies who pay $1600+ are making me feel a little better about the situation. Im gonna have to do my research on rental prices here and make a decision. The lease is up 12/12.

I'm in La Jolla ?

@samberline: I'm in San Diego too! $2200 for a 3bdrm 2.5 bath. So freaking expensive here!!

What do you ladies do that y'all can afford rents like that? I can't imagine ever being able to afford $2400 a month just for rent. We pay $650 a month for a 2 bedroom duplex

I wish our rent was that much! Lol we pay $2400 for our 4bd house but we are also in San Diego where everything is so dang expensive!

Thank goodness we live in a military town in Texas!

Realizing how much we pay for housing literally maddens me how expensive our housing market is near Chicago. My friend was renting a studio apartment for $850. It was in the ghetto. Dinky little houses in my neighborhood rent starting at $1700. These aren't even nice homes... they're like bare bones minimum. Average home rental price is around 2k.

I live in a 2 bedroom 600-700 sq ft apartment for $1026 a month ?

Wow that's cheap compared to New York, I'm definitely jealous ?

Wow... Didn't realize other places were that expensive!!!

We pay $600 for a 2 bedroom 1 bath duplex.

Huge yard.

And two huge decks.

I'd gladly pay that! We pay $1700 for a 2 bedroom house, without utilities.

It all depends on what the market is like. If all the other rentals have gone up the same amount for the same size/type of house then they will raise it. Either you will have to pay it or they will definitely find someone else who will. Same applies to rents going down. If the market had dropped and they won't find someone else to pay the previous year amount if you left then you can get the cost reduced as they know you pay the rent reliably and look after the property. They have no idea what their next tenant will be like.

Dang! I live in Maryland and if you want to live in a decent or really good area you're crazy if you think you're renting a 4 bedroom HOUSE for that price ? I'm in bethesda and for a 2 bedroom apartment you'll find nothing under 1600!

Well my two bedroom town house is $650 so I think you ladies are crazy! ???

Omg. I live in Los Angeles. Could find a one bedroom or studio in a crappy area for that price.

That's the price of renting a one bedroom in New Jersey. Two bedrooms go anywhere from $1500 to $2000. I wouldn't even want to know what a four would be! To me, sounds like you still got it pretty good! Price spikes for anything suck though.

I live in az and we were paying about 1300 for our rental house too :( it sucks!

I literally bought a 2 bedroom mobile home for 1500$. No idea how yall manage to pay that monthly.

That's normal for apartment complexes to do when other rentals in the area go up as well. Our rent increased a hundred something dollars when our 16 month lease was up. It sucks

The rent going up probably has nothing to do with you. The market may have changed in a year and rentals are in higher demand, therefore, they decided to raise the price. Or Maybe the property taxes went up.

Wow this is my mortgage in California! ?I'm sorry pp, do you guys ever think of just buying? I always feel like renters get screwed ?

Our house has 3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms for 575.00 a month

Damn $1065 is the price of a one bedroom here.

You only pay $1065 for a 4br house??!?!?! Where do you live?!?!?!?

Ya unfortunately that can happen. My SOs old apartment in CT, they raised the rent from 2400 to 2700 which I think is ridiculous. But every year the company that owns all those luxury buildings is allowed to raise rent to whatever market value is at the time. So you rent can go up even by 500 one year to the next.

We are going to rent out our house soon. 4br, 2.5 bath, small back yard, $2000/month, no utilities included

Omg i live in california i live in a tiny 2 bedroom apartment tiny and our rent here is 1425 no bills included.

I think it also depends on the cost of living. Its not so much the total amount but that they raised it over $200 in one year. I was expecting $50 to $100 the most.

I guess it is, my rent was 1350.00 ..lease is up in November..I just received an email stating:

You have three (3) options (please select your choice below):

A. Click here to execute a new one-year AH4R lease at a rental rate of $‎1,405.00

B. Click here to execute a new 6-month AH4R lease at a rental rate of $‎1,460.00

C. Click here to execute a new month-to-month AH4R lease at a rental rate of $‎1,532.25

$1279 for a 4 bedroom? op where do you live?! That's crazy cheap

That sounds so nice!! We were paying $1200 for a tiny two bedroom apartment in CO.

Be glad you pay that much, we pay 1900$ for 4 bedroom home here 30 min from Seattle

Depends on how greedy the landlord is. I lived in one apartment complex that tried to raise the rent every year by like $150. It was insane. But I went in to negotiate it back down a little.

I lived another place for five years that never raised the rent once.

Omg thats amazing.I'm in a 2 bed townhouse with no yard for 1200 a month!

Yup, my bros old apartment complex raised or lowered rent depending on demand. Its in a really nice area of Long Beach. When lease was over rent was raised $400 cause lots of people were applying.

Yikes. I paid $900 for a 2 bedroom duplex for 4 years, and it just went up to $975. My landlord is pretty awesome and knows I pay everything on my own. The other half of the duplex is $1100!

My friend rents a 3 bed two bath house for way cheaper. She lives in Gilbert

I live in laveen, AZ

Basically Phoenix

I was a landlord and we had rules by the city how much we could increase rent by each year as pp said, look into this

Might as well pay your own mortgage

Where do you live? A 4bd house would cost SOOO much where I'm from. It's not even that much for a studio here. It's $1800 for a 2bd 2bth.....

Where do you live so I can avoid the area?! Geez that's ridiculous

That's still a steal in my area. We pay $1400 with nothing included (water, garbage, power is all our responsibility).

But yes, it's normal. When a lease expires they can change the price to whatever they please. It's most likely not personal.

Omg. Its crazy! I knew it raises but thats a big difference. I was thinking around $50 or so. Ive been lucky in the past and had no increases in rent.

Yup the can do that. Which is why I always hated renting.

It is normal to raise every year or every so often, that is a HUGE increase though. That's crazy.

It's normal to increase every year but that seems like a lot but they can do it.