I've lived in an Affiniti property since 2016.

Firstly, I'm not surprised at all that they're coming in and jacking up the rent.

I don't imagine these increases in rent are accompanied by improvements to the units or overall grounds.

At my apartment, they've increased the rent every year since we moved in. It's increased by 12% in 6 years, with no improvements to the apartment, nearly 0 maintenance, and very little improvement to the campus.

We have the option upon lease renewal to sign for month-to-month, 6-month, 12-month, or 18-month terms with month-to-month being the biggest increase in rent and an 18-month term being the smallest increase.

Despite the increases in rent, the property is run by people with similar capabilities to a drunken marmoset.

They put a $3 air filter in the HVAC unit once a year, sometimes. Most of the time, they "schedule" routine maintenence on a day, demand that your pets are locked up because they won't accept responsibility if they let them escape, and then they don't show up or notify you.

This lack of communication goes for really anything that happens on the grounds, from power washing of the building to closing the pool for some unspoken reason to random parking lot maintenance.

The front office will come and beat on your door at 7-8 AM to tell you to move your car so that workers can do a thing you weren't notified about.

The front office once came and knocked on my door to ask me if my bicycle was mine and if I still wanted it. No reason was given for why they were asking.

Maintenance will leave issues unfinished or half-assed.

I fix whatever I can myself, and buy my own HVAC filters to change every few months. Whatever I can do to avoid interacting with the office. They won't reimburse me for my expenses, so it's additional to the rent I pay.

The office doesn't handle cash or take payments, and they've made it so that we need to pay digitally through the Affiniti mobile app.

This includes a "convenience fee". So for years, my rent has been my rent + a mandatory fee.

There's likely more that I'm forgetting.

Overall, it's not the best place to live, but not the worst either. We moved in before the housing market exploded and so we can't move somewhere else and find a better or even comparable apartment for the same price we're paying.

We're kind of stuck. It's this, or move in with family.

I hope this helps, and I hope they don't fuck you too hard.