Rent gouging :(

[Vervepipes]

Well, I live in a mobile home on leased land and they have for the second time in 2 years by 40$ up to 340/month! It's either I lose my home or car, but I need a way to get to work and so does my wife so I'm swallowing my pride and moving back onto the base :( Anybody else getting gouged by greedy landlords?

[RogueYaris]

my mom deals with that shit all the time. she's in a trailer park and they keep raising the rent. it's bullshit because it's not like they're really doing anything to justify raising the rent like that. in germany a landlord has to do major improvements to the property/house in order to raise rent.

[brickhardmeat]

340. is half my rent price!!!!:laugh:

I live in a some what ran down 1940's build 1 bedroom apartment

[Doc Zaius]

In Ontario, the maximum a landlord can raise your rent is 6% a year, unless they can prove that substantial improvements were done on the house/property. From $300 to $340 is about 13%... pretty substantial... perhaps you could see if you have any similar laws for your situation? :thumbsup:

[Vervepipes]

No rent control laws here, they shot it down pretty strongly recently. And 340 is only the pad rent, I still pay morgage and property taxes. All together I'm paying about a grand a month to live in a trailer

[ceres]

Why do you have to pay a mortgage and property taxes on something you lease? Or is that for some other property? Seems pretty weird. I thought leasing basically meant you avoided the other two.

[static808]

get ready to feel better about your housing situation gentlemen. 1 bedroom in los angeles, just north of culver city: 1450. 2 bedroom in west los angeles, 2100. this was 2 years ago when we were still renting. add gas prices into the equation, and well, you know how it goes...

--B

ps: these apartments arent the greatest either... no central air, cable, etc...

[RogueYaris]

check san diego prices if you wanna crap yourselves.

[brickhardmeat]

Yeah, this is why I stay in Texas and not California and this is also an explanation for the influx of mega californians to texas in recent times. I'm in the mortgage business trust me I know.

Wow I've never lived in a trailer park but there aint no way I'd pay a grand a month for that.:bellyroll:

[death is my gift]

Well, I live in a mobile home on leased land and they have for the second time in 2 years by 40$ up to 340/month! It's either I lose my home or car, but I need a way to get to work and so does my wife so I'm swallowing my pride and moving back onto the base :( Anybody else getting gouged by greedy landlords?

hang in there man. i don't know about anyone else here but i personally have had to move back in with my mom. it sucks but hey...at least you have somewhere to go. that does sound like a bunch of bullocks but THE MAN is the king of bullocks.

[blacksan]

I haven't lived in base housing for over 20 years, but I saved a lot of coin doing so. It always seemed that the AIR FORCE had superior facilities compared to ours anyhow. Look it this way, more pocket coin for Yaris goodies.

[kurokoma-kun]

That's ridiculous! I can't believe this landlord can get away with it--you could probably buy a little land for that much per month! Nothing wrong with moving back to base until you can find a better situation. Good luck! :smile:

[YamilR]

Are you in the Military? Honestly I don't know why are you having problems with rent since they pay for housing and let me tell you that it is a pretty good allowance. I'm an E-6 in the NAVY and with my housing allowance I pay for my house, water and electricity and still have left over for a tank of gas.

[brickhardmeat]

let's lynch the lanlord!

[death is my gift]

just to clear things up....

not living with my mom now. hahaha, did in the past.

[Vervepipes]

To clear it up, I'm in the Canadian Air Force and they consider this town having no need of cost of living allowance, so I only get my salary and nothing else. Cold lake is a little shit town population 10,000 that has a glut of oilworkers willing to pay 400k on a house or 200k on a trailer so things are expensive here, maybe not LA expensive but not livable on my pay. I pay lease and a morgage because I own the home but not the land it's on so when taxes go up 35% like this year not only do my taxes go up, so does the lease. Our military housing isnt so great on this base: 50 year old 700 sq foot houses built with 2X4's that cost 350/month to heat

[blacksan]

To clear it up, I'm in the Canadian Air Force and they consider this town having no need of cost of living allowance, so I only get my salary and nothing else. Cold lake is a little shit town population 10,000 that has a glut of oilworkers willing to pay 400k on a house or 200k on a trailer so things are expensive here, maybe not LA expensive but not livable on my pay. I pay lease and a morgage because I own the home but not the land it's on so when taxes go up 35% like this year not only do my taxes go up, so does the lease. Our military housing isnt so great on this base: 50 year old 700 sq foot houses built with 2X4's that cost 350/month to heat

That sucks! I hate to hear CAF doesn't do a better job of caring for it's people. Not that this helps, but I worked with your Army when I was in the service and assumed they took pretty good care of service people up there.

[Vervepipes]

Generally they do, rent on base isnt too much (thats why I'm going back there) and many bases get good compensation for living in expensive areas, but I dont know when the last time they did an assessment... prices have doubled here in 2 years and taxes have gone up a lot as well. The also consider this place "semi-isolated" because it has a hospital but everything from groceries and building supplies still cost more than in the city 3 1/2 hours away

[MudBug]

That's the way freedom and a free market works.

People sell their service/product for what people will pay for it (unless you're in a union where you get paid twice what a free market would pay, thus twice what you're worth), the market will tell them when they are charging too much.

So, when joe schmoe go to his boss saying "I want a raise or I walk to the competition" is he price gouging?

[kurokoma-kun]

So, a guy helping defend the country's freedom should have to live in substandard housing? :iono: :iono: :iono:

[Vervepipes]

It's not all bases that have bad housing, but this base was built 50 years ago and these houses are original to them. The forces housing has also been sold to a private firm and they seem to takes less care of them though