I hope people understand how this drives up rent prices in your area, it's insane. They're price fixing.
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
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Theoretically that is illegal.
Penalties for this should be severe. Like, impounding company assets and destroying them.
The fine of 1% of last quarter’s profits will ensure they learn their lesson.
Turn their properties into a coop and give the shares to the tenants
Corporate death penalty
Take one of the owner's private jets away.
Yup I got hit with this nonsense.. Right during the pandemic when I had no money.. $525->$800
They should be launching lawsuits like this in every state. Hopefully if this suit goes well, it helps bring rents back to Earth from where they’ve skyrocketed (though not holding my breath).
I have hope for my place, we have to renew our lease soon. My landlord is a decent guy and he has trouble with his email so I hope he couldn’t figure that software out lol
He may not be involved tbh, it may be a management company he uses that use the software. You'd know if you send your money to him directly or to a management company.
Guys pretty old school so we send it to him and whenever we need repairs he comes to fix it. He’s a good dude. Is a true historian and loves this house, when we were touring the place he told us about every person who owned it after it was built in 1864
That being said I know even the best can’t resist money, so I can only hope
If you send the money directly to him, I'm pretty sure you don't have anything to worry about. They usually get paid and then send the money to your landlord.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
"RealPage and the defendant landlords illegally colluded to artificially raise rents by participating in a centralized, anticompetitive scheme, causing District residents to pay millions of dollars above fair market prices,” Schwalb said in a release tied to the complaint.
RealPage and the property management firms utilizing their software were the subject of a class-action suit filed in the Southern District of California in October 2022, alleging the "cartel" of artificially inflating prices.
A developer who worked on YieldStar's algorithm told ProPublica that rental leasing agents had "too much empathy" compared to the software's pricing systems.
Its creation of "work groups" of would-be rival landlords could also invite antitrust scrutiny, a former federal prosecutor told ProPublica.
In response to ProPublica's reporting, a RealPage representative said the firm used "aggregated market data from a variety of sources in a legally compliant manner."
A slide from an internal Greystar presentation cited in the complaint suggested that "at least 95 percent" of RealPage prices should be used, as "Discipline of using revenue management increased more consistent outcomes."
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Oh gee. All this time, I thought it was coincidence that prices went up across the country in unison by identical amounts.