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Rent Increase Response
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-renters
Respond to a rent increase strategically — check its validity first, price your alternatives honestly, then negotiate with the leverage tenants forget they have (turnover costs the landlord more than a compromise). Use when asked my rent is going up what can I do, negotiate my rent increase, is this increase even legal, or should I stay or move. Produces the validity checklist, the stay-vs-move math, the negotiation letter with its trade menu, and the decision timeline against the notice period.
What to give it
▸The increase — current rent, proposed rent, effective date, how and when notice arrived, lease status (mid-term, renewal, month-to-month — mid-term increases are usually invalid on fixed leases; flag it)
▸The market read — comparable listings in the building/area if known (the negotiation's ammunition; the skill structures the comp list to gather)
▸The tenant's record — tenure, payment history, condition of the unit; the letter monetizes reliability
▸The alternatives, honestly — willingness to actually move, and the constraints (school zones, commute, the fifth-floor piano); a bluff the tenant can't back has negative value
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Validity runs first, as flagged categories, and an invalid increase reroutes the whole response
✓The ledger prices both the tenant's move AND the landlord's turnover
✓The counter contains a trade, not just a smaller number
✓The timeline keeps the moving option alive through the negotiation
✓The bluff check happened — nothing in the letter threatens what the tenant won't do
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not negotiate an invalid increase — note the defect politely and let process reset the table
Do not counter with hardship alone — sympathy is not a rate; records, comps, and trades are
Do not threaten to move while unwilling to — landlords price bluffs quickly and permanently
Do not assert caps or notice periods as numbers — categories with verify-locally flags
Do not let the effective date arrive mid-negotiation — the timeline exists because leverage has an expiry
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp
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Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
<div data-pm-skill="rent-increase-response"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>
💬 Discussion
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