[Stealthisbook]

The rub is that the suggested pricing is the default that doesn't require extra layers of approval with an included reasoning for deviating. All the pressure is for using the price derived from the proprietary information of other companies-that would be price fixing. It's not the process, so much as the source except that the process is set up to encourage as universal adoption as possible to keep the scam going.

[vel0city]

As mentioned elsewhere, chances are even if the property management manually set prices for every unit these same leasing agents would still have to submit approvals for changes to these prices. Its just that those with actual price authority for the building chose to set the prices for those units to be whatever the algorithm suggests by default.

Just like the person at the checkout counter can't just arbitrarily sell me a PS5 for $5.