Guess who had the 5th biggest DECREASE in rents last year?

[Wanderer]

I am normally a snob about looking at yahoo news stories, but this is provided by Business Week... so I will pass it on. Seattle also was tied for 2nd for the biggest drop in the 4th quarter alone (out of the top 10 annual losers anyway). I take no pleasure in friends losing jobs at MS, Boeing, Starbucks, etc. but those layoffs haven't even hit yet. Might be time for a kind email to my landlord who helpfully passed along local economic data during my last rent increase.

[Hugh Dominic]

I saw this as well.

I was considering forwarding it onto my landlord who "mentioned" raising the rent recently.

Held off for now, but if they get serious I will.

One question, the article talks about apartment rents - do we have any data on SFHs?

[Dave0]

I saw this in one of the comments a few days ago as well. Right afterwords I searched on craigslist and found places comparable to my house up for rent for 3/4 of my rent. Once it comes time to renew my lease, I'll definitely be sending a nice note to my landlord mentioning this fact.

[kfhoz]