Denver Apartments Mafia? (Boulder: lease, HOA, month to)

[sammy87]

OP...just do yourself a favor and move back to Canada.

[AmFest]

Originally Posted by sammy87

OP...just do yourself a favor and move back to Canada.

How did you figure out the OP is from Canada?

[Timmyy]

Originally Posted by AmFest

How did you figure out the OP is from Canada?

I don't think the OP is from Canada but Smihaila is.

[BornintheSprings]

Originally Posted by smihaila

If you are so well-versed in macro-economics, kindly explain to me why this BIG mismatch and divergence in terms of growth rates, between fully detached, residential properties, and rental prices. Thank you in advance for your explanation. I'm also curious if you ever lived anywhere outside U.S or ever changed states or cities :-)

There is no mishmash it just sounds like your bitter and to broke to afford the new rents. Either market yourself better and command a higher salary or get roommates. No one is going to hold your hand and support idiotic price controls which is what you seem to be advocating.

[AmFest]

Originally Posted by BornintheSprings

There is no mishmash it just sounds like your bitter and to broke to afford the new rents. Either market yourself better and command a higher salary or get roommates. No one is going to hold your hand and support idiotic price controls which is what you seem to be advocating.

Price controls may not be idiotic like you said. In Canada, for example, rent controls are common, for whatever reason there is. Letting the free market determine prices is capitalistic, and there are people out there that have legitimate reasons to not support capitalism.

Fighting capitalism in the US though? Well, that's a surely losing battle.

[smihaila]

I stop here with my intervention (remember the 80% savings rate? Need to get back to work).

I am maintaining my opinion that what is currently going on here, is Mafia-like rental market. No amount of additional patronizing or ironies will change my mind on this. It also looks like all these Denver-focused threads on citi-data are somehow skewed - lots of realtors or landlords howling here, so the opinions are biased. Also, when you bring in topics relating to Rocky Flats, some "guardians" on these threads start to become suspicious and utterly defensive.

Yes, continue rising the prices up to $3,000 for a 2-bedroom. AS IF you were in California or New York. Yeah baby, because you can!

And to the other poster who was signaling a $90 monthly increase with the rent, oh, that's peanuts. Be happy and grab it. Compare this to Superior, whereas the rent went up ... by approx. $200. And this was with "negotiations" in place!

Thanks for your time.

[smihaila]

Originally Posted by Timmyy

I don't think the OP is from Canada but Smihaila is.

I not "from Canada", I am from many countries.

[smihaila]

Originally Posted by sammy87

OP...just do yourself a favor and move back to Canada.

Now you are going with ad-hominem attacks and insults?
What the heck do you care what I am doing or what my goals in life are? Mind your own business dude.

[sammy87]

Originally Posted by smihaila

Now you are going with ad-hominem attacks and insults?
What the heck do you care what I am doing or what my goals in life are? Mind your own business dude.

You're the one using an internet forum to rant about how unfair your living conditions are to strangers. I dont think anyone cares what your goals are. They probably should be set a bit higher if rent is too high in a desired location though.

[ALStafford]

Originally Posted by BornintheSprings

There is no mishmash it just sounds like your bitter and to broke to afford the new rents. Either market yourself better and command a higher salary or get roommates. No one is going to hold your hand and support idiotic price controls which is what you seem to be advocating.

I find rhetoric like this to be indicative of a lack of understanding how many people live, work and earn income in their day to day lives. There are MANY, MANY hard working people in the world that cannot "command a higher salary" because the choose professions that serve others rather than high paying salaries. Teachers, first responders, food safety inspectors, pesticide regulators, nurses (especially those working with veterans), social workers helping families and vets...all these positions are fairly low-paying, and most are tied to governments, who, especially in Colorado with TABOR in place, generally receive pay increases that are exceptionally modest so that government budgets do not skyrocket. Most employees of the state here in Colorado will not receive any more than a 2% pay increase annually, because that's all the budget can handle. And it doesn't matter how much work they do, or how much $$ they save the state by introducing efficiencies in their departments. Because our pay is determined by people who really do not see the work we do, but are set by politicians instead.

Skyrocketing rental costs is hurting many hard-working families, those with professional positions and degrees, because they choose to serve others in their career rather than chase income. And landlords, both private and large corporate, do not care that housing cost increases are outstripping income increases by a margin of 8 to 10%. It is difficult, frustrating, and demoralizing for people to work very hard to ensure there is safe food, clean air, educated children, your house won't burn down, criminals are apprehended, etc.etc.etc., then come online and read high-handed, condescending comments like "market yourself...command higher salary...get roommates" is that much more soul-crushing. What you are saying to these people, that work so hard to make everyone's life (not just their own) is flat-out cruel. You're saying they don't deserve to live in a home that is clean, safe, reasonably close to their job with good schools for their kids. They should, at 40, 50 years old, in professional jobs, just go get a roommate, because they choose a profession to serve YOU and others like you, rather than chase your almighty god the dollar. Try talking to someone that works in one of these sectors some time. Ask them how it feels to know that within 24 months, if rent costs keep rising at the rate they are now, they will probably be sleeping in their car and washing up in the bathroom at their job, because the alternative is, at 50 years of age, 25 years into a professional position, either living with a roommate, or living 75-100 miles from their job because that's the closest place they can afford...