<story><title>Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year</title><url>http://socketsite.com/archives/2020/12/average-rent-in-san-francisco-has-dropped-1000-this-year.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozzyoli</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t ask, Don&amp;#x27;t get.&lt;p&gt;Everyone I know who has asked for a discount has got the discount.&lt;p&gt;After several months of the pandemic, and noticing the adjacent apartment being relisted by my landlord at a discount I emailed my landlord and asked if I could have my rent adjusted by the same discount. They said yes, if I committed to another years lease.&lt;p&gt;Saving 5% of rent, at the cost of a one year commitment didn&amp;#x27;t seem like a win, so I politely declined explaining my reasoning, and suggested we leave things as they are.&lt;p&gt;A week or so later, out of the blue by my rent got adjusted by 10%+ instead of 5% with no need to commit to stay.&lt;p&gt;Sufficed to say, if their intention was for me to stay put, it worked!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonpurdy</author><text>Another data point. Tried to get a discount in our Inner Sunset 1BR that we paid $3250 for. Other units in the same building listed for the past few months for $2700 with 2 months free (effectively $2250).&lt;p&gt;Denied a decrease (citing CA Fair Housing and not giving anyone a decrease) so we paid 1 months rent to break the lease. Now living in a 2BR by the beach for the same price as before with 50% more space, W&amp;#x2F;D, garage.&lt;p&gt;Old apartment went from ~10 vacant 1BR to ~25 vacant 1BR listings during the past couple of months during our negotiation and move.</text></comment>
<story><title>Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year</title><url>http://socketsite.com/archives/2020/12/average-rent-in-san-francisco-has-dropped-1000-this-year.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozzyoli</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t ask, Don&amp;#x27;t get.&lt;p&gt;Everyone I know who has asked for a discount has got the discount.&lt;p&gt;After several months of the pandemic, and noticing the adjacent apartment being relisted by my landlord at a discount I emailed my landlord and asked if I could have my rent adjusted by the same discount. They said yes, if I committed to another years lease.&lt;p&gt;Saving 5% of rent, at the cost of a one year commitment didn&amp;#x27;t seem like a win, so I politely declined explaining my reasoning, and suggested we leave things as they are.&lt;p&gt;A week or so later, out of the blue by my rent got adjusted by 10%+ instead of 5% with no need to commit to stay.&lt;p&gt;Sufficed to say, if their intention was for me to stay put, it worked!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bfirsh</author><text>As a data point: I asked for 25% off my 1 bedroom rent (which seemed like roughly market rate). They said something along the lines of &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;re not lowering any rents because we&amp;#x27;re struggling due to the economy&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;So, I left and they got nothing. I doubt they&amp;#x27;re going to rent it out again for a while.</text></comment>