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CowCountry Hornet Handler
Drives: '08 Sedan Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Halifax, NS
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Rent gouging :(
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?
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06-07-2007, 09:27 PM
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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.
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06-07-2007, 09:46 PM
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Lonesome Cowboy
Drives: 2007 WHITE HATCHBACK Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Inner City, Dallas
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340. is half my rent price!!!!
 I live in a some what ran down 1940's build 1 bedroom apartment
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06-07-2007, 09:58 PM
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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?
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06-07-2007, 10:01 PM
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CowCountry Hornet Handler
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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
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06-07-2007, 10:33 PM
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Drives: Yaris Sedan Join Date: Jun 2006
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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.
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06-08-2007, 12:39 AM
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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...
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06-08-2007, 02:32 AM
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check san diego prices if you wanna crap yourselves.
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06-08-2007, 08:01 AM
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Lonesome Cowboy
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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. 
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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.
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06-08-2007, 09:58 AM
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Drives: 2007 Yaris HB Join Date: Apr 2007
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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!
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06-08-2007, 10:16 AM
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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.
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06-08-2007, 11:16 AM
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Lonesome Cowboy
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let's lynch the lanlord!
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06-08-2007, 11:46 AM
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wacky broadway nightmare
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just to clear things up....
not living with my mom now. hahaha, did in the past.
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06-08-2007, 02:57 PM
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CowCountry Hornet Handler
Drives: '08 Sedan Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Halifax, NS
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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
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Drives: 07 Bayou Blue Liftback Join Date: Apr 2007
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06-08-2007, 04:59 PM
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CowCountry Hornet Handler
Drives: '08 Sedan Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Halifax, NS
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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
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