If you want a MTM lease, then offer to pay him more for that freedom.
I had that freedom for the last 3 years and established myself as a reliable trouble free tenant. Now I have to pay for it out of thin air? I just don't understand the logic.
If this is the first time he has raised the rent in FOUR years, and all he is asking is $50 more and a two year lease, then I'd say he is being very reasonable. I think it is unreasonable to complain about it actually.
My biggest issue is he obviously knew he was going to do this for a while and sent the new lease request close enough to 1/1/2016 that it wouldn't give me any real time to have any other option. If he told me back in September "Hey I wanted to give you a heads up, the taxes have been going up so Im probably going to request a rent increase and require a new lease at the beginning of the year..etc." that would have been nice. That would allow me to make a decision with options. I understand he's not required to give me 4 months notice. As a fellow human being it would be nice gesture just like Im not required to be nice enough to allow him to use my parking space. The same space that allows him to change the amount of money that he does to me. I do it because its a nice gesture even though I pay for it. Just treat people like people and not faceless money producing objects. Now I know where I stand with him.
Annual leases only protect tenants, not landlords...
You're suggesting my landlord is forcing me into an annual lease for my protection?
Check my other threads. No one says more often than I do that annual leases protect tenants rather than landlords. I use MTM leases with my tenants BECAUSE I know a lease protects them, not me, while the MTM protects me, not them. I have NO idea where you get the idea that I said anything opposite to that.
As far as the logic of having to pay for it. You are not entitled to a continued discount for the rest of your life. The fact of the matter is there is no "right" for you to have a MTM lease at the same rate. He can run his business however he wants. You're welcome to take your business elsewhere, where you will likely pay for the premium you are asking for, or pay still higher rent on a lease, since he is well below market and has barely raised your rent at all. Here you are like an entitled person demanding a MTM lease without compensating him for it. He is already leaving money on the table with you. Now you feel entitled to more? Wow...How about you GIVE him something and GET something. He is already giving you discounted rent, and here you are wanting better terms but not giving him anything else in return.
This is like the guy who complained that his landlord didn't put him up in a hotel for a week while the roof was being replaced. The guy worked nights. Somehow he thought that made it the landlords responsibility to put him up in a hotel when maintenance that can only be done during the day needs to be done, because of HIS job choice. So the landlord should pay out of pocket for the hotel because he happens to have a tenant who works nights. Ridiculous, there is such an entitlement mentality here.
