There was a small bleach stained spot on the carpet - less than the size of a dollar bill. It's possible something very small was murdered there, like a ketchup packet...
I second triath. If you don't move they get a higher rent out of you this way so their trying to make the deal just sweet enough that you find it not worth your while to move.
The second possiblity is that it is beurocratic crap (companies occasionally have completely idiotic policies becasue of beaurocracy) but the fact that they did lower your rent means that they have some leaway on that. So I think this less likely.
Maybe that apartment was built on an Indian burial ground. Like, they built the first two floors, then buried a bunch of Indians, then built the third floor.
Maybe if you go in with actual numbers on a piece of paper with how much money they would get out of you in each scenario, they would change their minds.
Is there a year's worth of upwards price protection on the lease you'd be signing? Meaning, if you do move and take advantage of the low, low pricing, is there something to keep them from hiking it in month 2? 'Cause if not, that'd be the worst of both worlds.
By the same token, I'd expect them to be willing to take a slightly lower monthly rent in exchange for a year-long lease if it gives them more certainty about occupancy rates. But if it's apples-to-apples, month-to-month you're describing, then take the idiots' money.
I've seen shallower chains of command do stupider things than what you're describing. Usually the boss's boss's boss is still pretty far from having actual authority to do the sensible thing.
(of course, I happen to agree with you that moving sucks)
It's a year-long lease either way. Month-to-month is the yearly monthly plus $300, and we'll likely be around a year from now (though not a year from the end of our current lease). So apples-to-apples, just the really big kind :-)
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You should also check out that apartment and make sure there wasn't a murder there or something really crazy.
P.S. Glad to hear Kael's doing ok. Poor guy!
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The second possiblity is that it is beurocratic crap (companies occasionally have completely idiotic policies becasue of beaurocracy) but the fact that they did lower your rent means that they have some leaway on that. So I think this less likely.
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Wow. The mind boggles.
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By the same token, I'd expect them to be willing to take a slightly lower monthly rent in exchange for a year-long lease if it gives them more certainty about occupancy rates. But if it's apples-to-apples, month-to-month you're describing, then take the idiots' money.
I've seen shallower chains of command do stupider things than what you're describing. Usually the boss's boss's boss is still pretty far from having actual authority to do the sensible thing.
(of course, I happen to agree with you that moving sucks)
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