Such bullshit. Just list the price and I’ll decide if I want to pay it. Why is that so difficult.

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Yeah when I moved out of my last place I took an abundance of photos, cleaned the whole unit myself, then hired a professional cleaner to make another pass to get everything spotless.

My mother thought I was paranoid, and the cleaning lady was like “there’s hardly anything left for me to clean!” But lo and behold, the management company emailed me saying they’re withholding the deposit because they found mold. Sent them the pictures (of the exact spot they were talking about, there was no mold) and the receipt from the cleaners and I got my deposit + never heard another peep from them.

PGH landlords/management companies are really out here trying to get one over on everybody - probably because of the abundance of college students who don’t know their rights as tenants, and that they deserve better.

Pgh landlord/rental companies are absolute trash. I rented here for over ten years at many different locations, and my experience was piss poor with all of them.

I’d be curious to read your solution. Who would you call if someone breaks into your house? Or someone attacks you or your family…pick your reason to call the police.

You probably dodged a bullet, I bet they jack the rate way up when the lease comes up for renewal.

Yes 💯💯. We recently realized what the attorney general is for and had to contact them when our home warranty co was messing around. Action was taken literally that week. The attorney general is a great resource that I think is underutilized because a lot of people don’t know the purpose.

>I can’t go back to school until I pay off that $3000

That's not how student loans work. You can go back to school with outstanding loans.

Good on you for walking.

She clearly gives you a few days to think about it and offers a tour before you make your decision. Real estate moves fast and sometimes you have to make a decision on the spot or lose out on the opportunity.

Yeah it especially frustrates me because I'd consider myself the perfect renter; great credit score, stable job, no evictions or even a late payment with past landlords to vouch for me, I don't smoke or vape, no pets to tear up the carpet, no roommate or partner to get into fights with and bother neighbors, 0 criminal history, nothing. Like if you own a property and just want a warm body who's not going to damage the place or annoy the neighbors with noise and pays rent on the 1st without fail, that's me

That's not to brag about where I'm at, it's to say that despite all that my process trying to find a good place to rent has still been miserable, so what about people trying to get back on their feet? People with an unsteady job or minor criminal charges or bad credit they're trying to change? I have the time and resources to actually fight landlords on stuff like not returning security deposits and have the time before my lease expires to really vet my living situation and it's still a soul crushing experience. I cannot imagine how miserable renting is then for people who have a month or less to find a new place or just have no experience or a someone to turn to to try and fight erroneous reasons landlords try to withhold security deposits and all that.

It's almost like we don't penalize these predatory practices, so soon after they're concocted they become commonplace in the market because the dogma of capitalism to "generate as much profit as possible" throws human beings to the wayside and is designed to let captive markets (those people don't have a choice to participate in or not participate in) become extraction centers. Shame that it is working as designed.

This is just a sales tactic, I don't think this rises to the level of bait-and-switch.

If you reply a week from now and say you are interested at the rate they originally quoted you, they will take it in a heartbeat.

Same shit car salesmen do. It's not fraud, but its close.

I've had something sort of similar happen. I'm looking only for houses and townhouses, my chronic migraines can't take an apartment building with internal entrances that gets flooded with the smell of burning candles, incense and cleaning products.

So I set the search on zillow to townhouses only. Found one listed in that category in Bloomfield. Said townhouse in the description too. I go to tour it, and the guy's like "oh yeah it's the first floor only". As if I was suddenly going to be ok with something completely different than what was advertised. Renting anywhere sucks but it's not like London where people will be queuing down the block for every shoebox that opens up because there's just so little available, I'm not so desperate I'm just going to sign on the spot for someone who just lied to me. The absolute gall of some of these management companies and landlords

Well, since cops' evil and tyrannical actions very much affect us as citizens, I do feel our opinions matter. What do we do otherwise, roll over and let it happen?

The whole thing is corrupt from tip to toe. Don't forget that cops originated as slave catchers, and their role as protectors of the owner class continues to this day. You can't build on a rickety foundation, the whole thing's gotta go and start over.

The original press release also noted that the site would include stormwater runoff mitigation measures, since this property is within the drainage area of Washington Blvd with it's flooding issues.

I imagine that retention ponds or whatever probably aren't nearly as expensive as net-zero energy requirements, but it's an added expense none the less. I would argue that's a bit more practical with immediate local benefit, than trying to tie this project in with solving bigger far more complex issues around climate change.

Change takes time. Interesting though all this comes up with only one party in charge for the last 100 years. Also corruption plays a part too, however much like the number of key board warriors on this platform, you’re talking about something neither you or I have worked in. So our opinions don’t really matter.

I toured a place about a month ago, when we were getting into the application fee they casually slid in that “due to market changes” the rent fee was $150 higher than the price they had advertised that same week.

Currently moving out of the west end and saw other apartments on my building listed with a “move in fee” of $75 what the fuck is that?? Also got a move out email about having to basically scrub the apartment top to bottom with cleaners before we leave. There can’t be a single spot of dust or dirt- meanwhile they never came to fix a leaky sink, poor floor boards and literal holes in our basement walls. But what’s with the move in fee? Shouldn’t that go towards professional cleanser or even the bullshit $1400 in rent we pay to live next to nothing with no off street parking? Landlords in PGH suck.

I have a place for rent in July, no pressure. DM me if interested.

I think that you’re onto something. Asbestos mitigation and demolition alone will be very expensive. And construction costs are up nearly 30% since 2020, so that’s a lot of it.

Also, the city put themselves in a bind with the net zero requirement. It’s one of those things that sounds good but is in fact prohibitively expensive to execute and, frankly, overkill in green building. It’s just another example of the city having outside organizations (GBA for example) and activists craft policy.

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I mean it could have very well been the property manager doing the right thing and honoring what she said. She has a job with timelines though. Throwing you a bone and you throw it right back. They offered a tour so you didnt have to make a decision before you replied. The real estate game here moves pretty fast. Or maybe not, but consider both perspectives.

I don’t even consider apartments that require you to reach out to them for a quote

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