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It depends on the state you're in to a large extent, Colorado for example has very landlord friendly laws and courts and this sort of behavior is quite prevalent. There are lots of slumlords who do 1 year leases, jack up the rent by an insane amount (20% is quite common) if you want to stay on after that, then of course most people move out and they fabricate some ludicrous amount of damage and 20 hour cleaning bill to take most of your security deposit (one or sometime two months rent), get new tenants in at the old rent rate, rinse and repeat. It's incredibly pervasive around here, especially near colleges. The number of renters who are willing to go to small claims court to get their $2000 deposit back is very low, and the few that do have very little success since the landlord generally holds all the cards. It's like a free 10% on top of whatever the rent is, so lots of scumbags do it. It really sucks but nobody in any legislative body gives a poo poo about 22 year olds so it's unlikely to change. Welcome to adulthood, it really sucks rear end sometimes.
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