People choose to live in all different places for all different reasons. That's great that you have a 3 bedroom in the heights for $2500. Someone else chooses to live downtown and pay more. You can't seriously sit here and say with a straight face the heights is a vastly different area than downtown and may prefer one neighborhood over the other. If you prefer the heights, that's great. Luckily you don't need to move into this apartment. Someone else might prefer the suburbs and get a whole house for that price.

By the way, this apartment is absurd to me too. But I live in a 1 bedroom in PH and my husband and I both work from home. Some would say that's insane and we should upgrade to a 2 bedroom elsewhere in JC. But we don't have a lot of stuff, love our neighborhood, love our apartment, and couldn't dream of living anywhere else. Literally everyone chooses where they live based on what they prioritize. Do I think this person is arrogant coming to this sub and thinking that someone taking over their lease should pay all these ridiculous fees? Absolutely. But I'm not going to pretend there isn't a market for people wanting to pay this rent. There wouldn't be dozens of brand new high-rises downtown at premium rents right now if there wasn't.