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Respond to a rent increase strategically — check its validity first, price your alternatives honestly, then negotiate with the leverage tenants forget they have (turnover costs the landlord more than a compromise). Use when asked my rent is going up what can I do, negotiate my rent increase, is this increase even legal, or should I stay or move. Produces the validity checklist, the stay-vs-move math, the negotiation letter with its trade menu, and the decision timeline against the notice period.

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# Rent Increase Response Skill

A rent increase letter looks like a decree; it's usually an opening position. Tenants systematically underprice their own leverage — turnover costs a landlord real money (vacancy, turnover work, listing, the risk of a worse tenant), which means a good tenant proposing a middle number with a longer lease is often genuinely the landlord's best offer. This skill runs the response in the only sensible order: validity (is this increase properly noticed, and lawful where caps exist — flagged, not assumed), then the honest stay-vs-move math, then the negotiation those numbers arm.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The validity checklist** — notice form and period, lease-term timing, and the rent-regulation question — as jurisdiction-flagged checks, because an invalid increase changes the entire conversation
- **The stay-vs-move ledger** — the increase's real annual cost vs. the full cost of moving, both sides computed
- **The negotiation letter** — the counter with its trade menu (term length, prepayment, self-managed wear items, timing)
- **The decision timeline** — the response schedule worked back from the notice deadline, so options stay open

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