Q: Can a tenant charge me more in rent because Ive lived in the apartment longer versus someone signing a new lease?
My tenant told me my rent is going up next year to 635 because rent is going up all over the city yet online they have my same studio in the same building listed as 575 and they won't let me sign that lease because I'm currently living in the apartment.
A:
Do you mean the landlord, rather than the "tenant"? You do understand that a tenant is a person who is paying rent to a landlord for the right to live in the premises, right?
Unless there is some sort of rent control law in your locality, and assuming you don't have a current lease, the landlord is entitled to require you to pay more rent, or to refuse to rent to you at all.
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