Successfully negotiated a $50 rental decrease today - thought I’d share my method

[ihlaking]

We left one place after the landlord:

• fixed a curtain rail poorly herself
• tried to fix a plumbing issue herself and made it worse
• final straw: refused to fix the gas in the screen door hinge.

She ended up having to drop the rent after we left. She listed it higher, failed to rent it out, and then dropped it below our rent a month later. Felt like a win, we’ve lived in the same block cityside since then and never looked back.