U.S. landlords who use RealPage products to set prices on rental apartments are facing accusations of collusion.
  • A group of lawsuits accuse large landlords of price-fixing the market rate of rent in the United States
  • A complaint filed by Washington D.C.’s Attorney General alleges 14 landlords in the district are sharing competitively sensitive data through RealPage, a real estate software provider
  • RealPage recommends prices for roughly 4.5 million housing units in the United States
  • RealPage told CNBC that its landlord customers are under no obligation to take their price suggestions

A group of renters in the U.S. say their landlords are using software to deliver inflated rent hikes.

“We’ve been told as tenants by employees of Equity that the software takes empathy out of the equation. So they can charge whatever the software tells them to charge,” said Kevin Weller, a tenant at Portside Towers since 2021.

Tenants say the management started to increase prices substantially after giving renters concessions during the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    My uncle is a landlord.

    He has NEVER had to pay a security deposit back. The judges in this small town always side with him.

          • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            You might have misread what I was saying. 🥴🤒😵‍💫😮‍💨

            Is it your fault one of your relatives is a jackass?

          • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            Like, holy shit you’ve made me angry, as I sit here in my shitty roach infested apartment looking at my paystub where the rent comes out of my check automatically every week, listening to my upstairs neighbor’s dog barking, waiting on her to drop off her rent so I can give it to my uncle later.

            Maybe don’t add information where there is none genius.

              • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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                10 months ago

                You’re right. I should have expected mouth breathing communist crusaders to think I was bragging… on Lemmy of all places.

                  • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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                    10 months ago

                    Just stop. You’ve already embarrassed yourself by adding information to a comment to suite your worldview because you can’t think outside of whatever hole you were indoctrinated in. It’s all enemies and allies to folks like you.

                    You know, the ones too brain dead to lead, but foaming at the mouth just enough to run around looking for folks to purge for the big boys.

                    That’s the exact same thing right wingers on Facebook do. The only difference for you is you didn’t click on some right wing link when you were 14. Otherwise you’d just be a Nazi and I would’ve never met you.

                    See how much information I can make up when I stop thinking and just talk out of my ass?

      • Kittenstix@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Does it though? I can point to thousands of people that justice never came for.

        I personally believe that when Christ returns, he’ll establish a fair equitable and just society here on earth, then resurrect everyone, inviting them to participate.

        In that society justice will be served, but that’s not really hope for people suffering now.