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by jeffbee 197 days ago
Yeah I mean I don't know how to tell you this but that's not a source. Rental managers leave units vacant all the time, hoping for an unrealistic price. It's certainly possible and even consistent with those claims that realpage clients were no worse than general property managers in this regard. They may have even been more willing to accept lower prices based on the realpage recommendations.
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Your rebuttal is literally "nuh uh." You asked for a source, you were given a source: documentation that shows RealPage discouraged landlords from negotiating, and landlords admitting to not negotiating. COULD they have negotiated? Sure, and a unicorn COULD be orbiting Saturn with 5,000 homes in tow, trying to figure out the optimal thrust vector to come to Earth. Anything COULD happen, but we know what DID happen: RealPage and services like it have enabled landlords to collude with dubious legality on rent prices, and rent prices went up as a result. The most predictable outcome.