These notices from landlords are beginning to show up at renters' doors, stoking fears

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Jul. 12—Noah Braley received the text that would upend his plans for the next year a little over a week ago, on July 1 — your rent will be going up by a lot, his property manager wrote, but don't freak out.

"I'm like, 'Excuse me, don't freak out?'" said Braley, who has lived in the building since 2013, when he was still an urban planning student at Western Washington University. "How much is it?"

The answer is $405, which Braley discovered when he returned home from his job as a line cook at Italian restaurant Storia Cucina. The letter taped to his door was sent by Son-Rise Property Management, and it infuriated Braley — it said that, starting in September, rent for his two-bedroom apartment would increase from $1,195 monthly to $1,600.

"I can't afford to pay this. I have $300 student loans I'm trying to pay off. I've got car insurance, I've got $250 health insurance bills," said Braley, who has not missed a rent payment throughout the pandemic. "Rent on top of that? Where am I going to find an extra four grand a year?"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/these-notices-from-landlords-are-beginning-to-show-up-at-renters-doors-stoking-fears/ar-AAM3rsO

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I will bet that Son Rise is a Christian company

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. That was my impression too

[jarfish0]

3. Nomads!

Wow! Hard to believe that rents in Whatcom are so atrociously high and getting even higher now by what 20%, we have real problems here definitely, "work vs. income," for most of us that rent we are being snared, I think!

In my opinion the influx of new settlers from around the states are due to multiple factors. They come from there base land or home state or even from Seattle and metro areas closer because "enviro/sustainability" problems in those areas for them this is a better deal.

We need our Governor Inslee to do his part like the creation of a "renters data base" that landlords have to use so they stop the background check and admin fees vacuum, pet rents and rent rises over 3%, that is inhuman and is actually predation.
A person has fork out an average of $600 to move every time for reasons like that planned renovation! Actual rents and your looking at $2,100 a month for just a studio, its a big money maker for them.

Welcome to uncontrollable homelessness in the US! For the average peep, anyhow hence the "Nomad!" population growth.

We are a great community or used be here in Whatcom, full of hard working students and retirees and medical workers and yes, restaurateurs with just a couple of newer companies coming in with a splash, like this weeks news of an electrical bus maker that employs 20 guys or so in 2023, that is not great news but it only helps a little, yes!

jarfish0

[gopiscrap]

4. welcome to DU