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Input: My partner (23f) and I (27m) have been living in our apartment for 2 years, going on 3. Our landlord has given us a letter notifying the increase of rent (2.5%), which was slightly higher than last year's (2%). We agreed on the increase during the previous year as to not create any animosity. However, this year we decided to decline the rent increase due to our landlord not doing any work in our unit since we have moved in, and also ghosting on us when we needed them. Our building is slowly degrading with multiple leaks in the hallway and holes that have not been covered up after work has been done.

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First thing we have noticed is that he only gave us a letter to accept the increase and omitted the part where we would either reject the increase or terminate our lease once it ended. We had to print out the form ourselves and mail it to him. Once he received the letter he wanted to meet with us to discuss why he was increasing the rent and negotiate. He did not follow up on us to meet after we gave him our availabilities and explained to him how we were only home during evenings and weekends due to both of us having full-time jobs.

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After a few days of our last email to him, he called both of us during the day. I called him back during my lunch break and he listed a few reasons that contributed towards the increase. His reasons were the increase in salary for his employees, having to replace some pipes in the building after they had burst, apartments being taxed more than duplexes (with no proof), refusing to send us how he calculated our rent increase and proposing that we come to his office to see his bills, and explaining how he added a few extra dollars as a buffer for himself.

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He attempted to guilt me by using an analogy of how he was an employee asking for a raise from his boss for doing good work and that if the boss were to refuse his proposal, he would feel like his work had no value. For as long as we have been here, he has not done any work in our unit. There have been times where he has not given us notice before contractors entered our apartment. The first time our lightbulb needed to be changed, he sent someone over without our knowledge, who then told us to contact him whenever future lightbulbs needed changing. We attempted to contact our landlord about borrowing a ladder to reach them when our hallway and bedroom light bulbs burnt out, but he never responded to either of us, which lead to us having to invest in a ladder.

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After speaking to him on the phone, we sent him an email proposing an increase of 1/4 of what he offered. He responded with how our proposal was insulting and asking if his offer was insulting to us and came across as very rude and unprofessional. He asked us to reconsider or else he would get the rent fixed from the administration in charge of rental housing. We stayed firm to our proposal and he has not replied to us since.

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AITA?

refusing a rent increase