Found an apartment in Seattle, a city I’m relocating to, with a rent just around my budget and it’s just near perfect. However, the rate is for a 9 month lease and it costs $300 more for a 12-month term. When the 9 months are up, how significant would a rent increase be? Is there a less chance of a significant rent increase if I sign up for 12 months instead?
Are you planning on a long term thing?
12-14 moth leases will be better per month than a short term lease.
If you’re planing on staying 9 months and immediately leaving then I guess that will work for you.
But if you have long term prospects or desires
Doing 9 months is dumb. It’s more per month but your time frame to decide if you wanna renew or move out is much shorter.
Nowadays the chance of a rent hike is guaranteed when you renew whether it’s 9 or 12 months. At least with a longer term it’ll keep your budget steady for that many more months
> and it costs $300 more for a 12-month term.
It’s $300 more a month for a 12 month term?
So rental software used based it’s rates on trying to limit the amount of units becoming vacant at or around the same time. Usually a 12 month lease would be cheaper but these complex most likely have a lot of units with leases rolling over to month to month or just ending around the 11 to 12 month time. The 9 month works out better in my opinion as you can see if you like it and let it roll into a month to month lease and stay indefinitely or just sign another long term lease. Otherwise you can bounce out before a year
I live in Seattle in the heart of the city (Queen Anne). There are a zillion rental units being built right now. There are cranes everywhere.
I would take the 9 months and see if you like the place and then get to know the city. In Seattle there are a ton of tech folks — Amazon, Expedia, Microsoft, and a zillion others, and what tends to happen is young people move in and like living in the city, and then they decide to get married and want a house with a yard and so they move to the burbs so they have room for the kids. The turnover is endless.
I live in a condo that’s very nice and units in my building rent for $1500-$2000 for a one bedroom. There are some nicer units with 2 BR’s that are more like $2500-$3200. But the rents haven’t changed in years — well actually they have gone down some. And there was already a glut before Covid, and then everyone figured out they can work remotely and actually buy a nice house in, say, Idaho or Oregon or wherever, for the same amount of money they pay for rent.
The cost to buy a home is skyrocketing, but urban rents are a whole different beast. This is not NYC or SFO.
9 months from now it’ll be the end of summer so they probably expect to be able to command a higher rent. If you lock in a 12-month they might be trying to cut ahead of the winter gloom income loss if the apartment stays empty for more than a minute.
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