Negotiating rental lease

[Anonymous]

Our building tried to raise our rent quite a bit in June, we negotiated and were really happy with the terms. We asked to sign a 2 year lease to lock us in at the new rate.

We are in the middle of IVF. Back when we signed we had no idea how any of this would pan out but now it's looking like we will be expecting next year. We have some time probably 24ish weeks before we buy anything but we don't want to really nest- wallpaper, shelves, buying things that fit in this apt if we won't be here a few more years.

How likely is it they let us add another year? We have a pretty good relationship with the owners of the building ( his family lives in the penthouse) and the leasing manager likes us. Originally with the June increase we said we couldn't do it. And they made sure we could stay.

Any thoughts appreciated

[Anonymous]

Poor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our building tried to raise our rent quite a bit in June, we negotiated and were really happy with the terms. We asked to sign a 2 year lease to lock us in at the new rate.

We are in the middle of IVF. Back when we signed we had no idea how any of this would pan out but now it's looking like we will be expecting next year. We have some time probably 24ish weeks before we buy anything but we don't want to really nest- wallpaper, shelves, buying things that fit in this apt if we won't be here a few more years.

How likely is it they let us add another year? We have a pretty good relationship with the owners of the building ( his family lives in the penthouse) and the leasing manager likes us. Originally with the June increase we said we couldn't do it. And they made sure we could stay.

Any thoughts appreciated

How on earth would any of us know? I mean, landlords avoid turnover as much as possible so that works in your favor, but there could be a lot of other factors at play.

[Anonymous]

FWIW we did everything but paint for our son’s nursery in a rental. At the time we didn’t really have any intentions of moving. Ended up buying a house when he was 5 months old. It was still 100% worth it to set up a room for him the way we wanted. Just do it, you won’t regret it.

[Anonymous]

Ask, most probably they will say yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our building tried to raise our rent quite a bit in June, we negotiated and were really happy with the terms. We asked to sign a 2 year lease to lock us in at the new rate.

We are in the middle of IVF. Back when we signed we had no idea how any of this would pan out but now it's looking like we will be expecting next year. We have some time probably 24ish weeks before we buy anything but we don't want to really nest- wallpaper, shelves, buying things that fit in this apt if we won't be here a few more years.

How likely is it they let us add another year? We have a pretty good relationship with the owners of the building ( his family lives in the penthouse) and the leasing manager likes us. Originally with the June increase we said we couldn't do it. And they made sure we could stay.

Any thoughts appreciated

DCUM Ouija says "Ask your Landlord".