My landlord just lowered my rent $250 bucks

NEW -> Contingent Buyer Assistance Program
[quote author="CM_Dude" date=1224651936]If you're opposite traffic and 5 minutes off the freeway, Valencia is a beautiful spot.</blockquote>




For a single person? I would have thought it was much worse than Irvine socially.
 
I've been off IHB for a few days due to a "cookie" issue....



Update: I texted landlord $1600, he responded 2 days later with $1650.



I accepted, pending being able to get out of the Valencia deal.



So, $350.00 less a month total. WOW !



It's worth it for me to stay....garage and small secure patio for kitties being that which clinched it.
 
[quote author="Trooper" date=1224804791]I've been off IHB for a few days due to a "cookie" issue....



Update: I texted landlord $1600, he responded 2 days later with $1650.



I accepted, pending being able to get out of the Valencia deal.



So, $350.00 less a month total. WOW !



It's worth it for me to stay....garage and small secure patio for kitties being that which clinched it.</blockquote>
Great negotiations, Troop.

Congrats.
 
[quote author="Trooper" date=1224804791]I've been off IHB for a few days due to a "cookie" issue....



Update: I texted landlord $1600, he responded 2 days later with $1650.



I accepted, pending being able to get out of the Valencia deal.



So, $350.00 less a month total. WOW !



It's worth it for me to stay....garage and small secure patio for kitties being that which clinched it.</blockquote>


Sooo... what you're saying is... drinks are on you! :lol: Ok, maybe not! Congradulations! I need your negotiating skills on my next purchase!



-bix
 
Nice job!

You scored and didn?t even have to call in NO FEE



<img src="http://www.priceline.com/promo/images/NO_FEE_banner.jpg" alt="" />
 
[quote author="Trooper" date=1224804791]I've been off IHB for a few days due to a "cookie" issue....



Update: I texted landlord $1600, he responded 2 days later with $1650.



I accepted, pending being able to get out of the Valencia deal.



So, $350.00 less a month total. WOW !



It's worth it for me to stay....garage and small secure patio for kitties being that which clinched it.</blockquote>


Hey Troop,



Congrats to ya
 
Congrats. I've only moved twice, and I swear the older you get, the worse it gets .. it's been 5+ years since I moved and I still have stuff packed up in the garage. I've been meaning to throw that crap away.
 
It's nice to hear something work in their favor when they are financially responsible.

Troop, you could even put that extra money towards the principal on your CT mortgage.
 
Good stuff, Trooper. I have been offline for the most part recently, as I just completed my cross-Irvine move from Westpark to Woodbury. I last moved three years ago, and I had forgotten what a huge pain moving is. (As a matter of fact I just now remembered that last time I moved, I dropped a shelf on my foot and broke my big toe! I sure blocked that memory!)l



Ooops, gotta go put the little guy to bed. I'll post more about my move later.



ism
 
Bumping this thread...



<em><strong>

Metros with the biggest rent drops</strong>

Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, Calif.

Rank: 11

Rent drop: 2.8%

Q4 2008 rent change: -2.6%

Q4 2007 rent change: +0.2%

Effective rent: $1,625.60



The Orange County area, known for its wealth and for tourist attractions such as Disneyland, also became famous as the capital for subprime lending. Irvine was home to such lenders as New Century Finance Corp. and Ameriquest, and the collapse of the housing market damaged the local economy. Apartment rents by the end of last year were falling while the unemployment rate climbed to 6.1% in November 2008 compared with 4.2% in November 2007. The apartment vacancy rate jumped to 6.1% in the fourth quarter last year from 4.9% in the same period in 2007. Landlords on average are giving 1.7 weeks of rent concessions.</em>



<a href="http://realestate.msn.com/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=17204969#12">Metros with the biggest rent drops</a>
 
[quote author="Girl In the OC" date=1234750797]Bumping this thread...



<em><strong>

Metros with the biggest rent drops</strong>

Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, Calif.

Rank: 11

Rent drop: 2.8%

Q4 2008 rent change: -2.6%

Q4 2007 rent change: +0.2%

Effective rent: $1,625.60



The Orange County area, known for its wealth and for tourist attractions such as Disneyland, also became famous as the capital for subprime lending. Irvine was home to such lenders as New Century Finance Corp. and Ameriquest, and the collapse of the housing market damaged the local economy. Apartment rents by the end of last year were falling while the unemployment rate climbed to 6.1% in November 2008 compared with 4.2% in November 2007. The apartment vacancy rate jumped to 6.1% in the fourth quarter last year from 4.9% in the same period in 2007. Landlords on average are giving 1.7 weeks of rent concessions.</em>



<a href="http://realestate.msn.com/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=17204969#12">Metros with the biggest rent drops</a></blockquote>


Thanks! More ammunition for me if I need to renegotiate the rent...!
 
You had me at "garage".



Great decision... I think you could have stuck with $1600 but that is a significant savings regardless.



I'm hoping when my lease comes up for renewal... I can do some Shatner-action.
 
HA! Yesterday I was reading CurbedLA and on the main page, saw a house I thought I recognized..... then, as I read the story I recognized it was the front house to my back house ! My landlord is at it again...the main house is now vacant. The previous $3800 price tag was laughable, the now $3100 price tag is still questionable. $2800 and he might have a go at it.... and funny, he told me he's a realtor, but I noticed another realtor's name on the listing. So I called him, a little concerned that there was some sort of scam going on. He said the house had been empty for a couple of months and he decided to hire a realtor to market it (wait, I though he *was* a realtor....I didn't go there). SO, I just wished him good luck. I'm never up there but to get my mail, so didn't know it was vacant as well.



This also probably had a great deal to do with my negotiations a couple of months ago....that would mean THREE out of four houses on the property were vacant. He for sure did not want me to slip away...b/c he lives off the income of the house ! I keep checking the property taxes, and he's still current.....but I wonder......



<a href="http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/apa/1040203175.html">If any of you are weirdo stalkers, don't click on this link....really, I have a gun</a>
 
[quote author="Trooper" date=1235054016]HA! Yesterday I was reading CurbedLA and on the main page, saw a house I thought I recognized..... then, as I read the story I recognized it was the front house to my back house ! My landlord is at it again...the main house is now vacant. The previous $3800 price tag was laughable, the now $3100 price tag is still questionable. $2800 and he might have a go at it.... and funny, he told me he's a realtor, but I noticed another realtor's name on the listing. So I called him, a little concerned that there was some sort of scam going on. He said the house had been empty for a couple of months and he decided to hire a realtor to market it (wait, I though he *was* a realtor....I didn't go there). SO, I just wished him good luck. I'm never up there but to get my mail, so didn't know it was vacant as well.



This also probably had a great deal to do with my negotiations a couple of months ago....that would mean THREE out of four houses on the property were vacant. He for sure did not want me to slip away...b/c he lives off the income of the house ! I keep checking the property taxes, and he's still current.....but I wonder......



<a href="http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/apa/1040203175.html">If any of you are weirdo stalkers, don't click on this link....really, I have a gun</a></blockquote>


Wow! That is a cool place. A place that would be really cool if the rent was realistic. Me thinks I can buy that at the foreclosure auction and make it cash flow at market rents...



Oh... and not only does she have a gun, but a sh*t load of nutty intarweb friends with googlefu skills that will find you. And trust me, no... seriously, trust me... you don't want no_vas knocking on your door. I don't even want him in my neighborhood.
 
Nice to know my back is had. Wait...that didn't sound right.



Anywho, yeah...it's an ok place. Mine is a mini version of it, same beamed ceilings and look/feel. But my little house is downslope from it....and I now know about bad feng-shui from BK. So, THE POOL is why I have been single these past two years ! I'm below water !



That's it. I'm moving.
 
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