When you’re looking to rent, remember these things:
Your landlord may run a background check that makes a cavity search feel like a handshake.
Your landlord paid a lot for that building and needs to make it back. Needs to make a lot just to pay for upkeep and mortgage payments.
You have rights. Plenty, in fact. Enough to validate the entire history of tenant-vs-landlord antagonism. Enough to make you wonder how landlords ever make any money at all.
People keep agitating for rent control around here and I think it’s a bad idea– cut regulation, cut the cost of providing rentals, cut barriers to apartment creation, and the price of rentals will come down. I want to see more apartments, not rent-controlled apartments.
Secretly Ironic 