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[quote=sarah1513]My main goal was to see if anyone had experience with our exact situation (a previous paper lease that had wording that was obviously just boilerplate and contradicted DC tenant occupancy law) and telling/not telling the landlord explicitly about expected children. A few people did help with that and I'm convinced not to proactively tell him, at least unless/until I'm able to talk with the tenant advocacy office.

I don't think I'm "entitled"--I've lived in DC for 17 years, all of them renting, and know what it is to pay very large rents, and really, I was just expressing the maybe, possibly, hope that our landlord would be nice and choose to make this year one of the years he doesn't raise our rent--he hasn't raised it every time. I don't think he HAS to do that nor do I think I'm ENTITLED to that, it was just an aside to my main question.

I suppose I'm clueless in the sense that no, I don't have experience raising kids here yet, but neither does anyone when it's your first pregnancy. We realize we will be stretched and spending out of savings for several years while daycare is most expensive.

To the poster who mentioned the lead in the water pipes also, thank you. We actually had the free testing from the city for that a year or two ago and have since had the lead-filtering filter added to our kitchen faucet, and have a lead-filtering (not Brita) pitcher.

To the poster asking about how we're "not under a lease" now, in DC, once your first one-year paper lease expires, you automatically move to a month to month lease and your landlord I believe has the right to raise the rent no more often than every 6 months.[/quote]

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