you shouldn’t comment on prices if you haven’t looked at the market recently

i always see people saying people’s prices are too high on this sub (which are against the sub rules btw). but i’ve noticed that oftentimes on these posts the rent is actually just the market price for apartments nowadays.

i understand the pain because i was first looking at places two years ago and i am looking again, and prices have gone up by a lot. even places in flatbush are going like crazy. my rent stabilised place has become an impossible to find deal since i got it two years ago when it was just a decent deal back then, so much so that i have decided to just not move.

but that is just the market right now. a lot of people posting are not even landlords, they might just want someone to take over the lease or rent out a room and are pricing it on how much they pay the actual landlord.

i feel like if you want to comment that a place is expensive you have to find 3 comparable streeteasy listings that are lower in price on the market right now before doing so.