R50cent t1_iur9i3m wrote
Reply to comment by 5teerPike in "‘I want my money back’: Rental application fees rampant despite Vermont’s prohibition" by CalicoFlannel
Add it to the pile while they gentrify the state for their own profit.
5teerPike t1_iura155 wrote
Apparently they're doing that with ghosts since every apartment you could possibly want is taken before your application "processes"
R50cent t1_iurbkfk wrote
Which speaks more to the larger issue companies like theirs are creating in Vermont. Personally I don't know what level of vacancy they have, but honestly either way the issue still exists.
These companies... they're taking what little affordable housing Vermont has left, buying it, fixing it up a bit admittedly, but then increasing the rent so that potentially the same person who could afford rent previously now can't, and that's a big fuckin problem for a state that refuses to build affordable housing and also has issues with comparable salaries for similar jobs in other states.
Vermont will suffer the same fate a lot of states are going to find themselves in (more than we already are that is): with a few companies that own all the housing, and a middle to lower class of perpetual renters who have no options to buy to escape the process. Stone and Browning and the like are the new landed gentry.
5teerPike t1_iurcxag wrote
Oh yeah all their policies are ridiculous, and even if you fit they'll still bait & switch on you.
We had that happen, we both had a credit score way over what was asked for, we even offered to pay the down payment right then and there for the apartment we wanted. They said we could when our applications were processed & then said it wasn't available as soon as they did!
We also arranged to look at one listing, which they said was unavailable the day of the appointment "but we have these others ( you didn't make an appointment for)" They never took that original listing down too lol
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