Laid off a month back with no job currently - if I go and talk to the leasing manager to reduce rent, can he think in other direction instead and ask to leave the apartments to avoid any default? Just trying to get a sense how things work in US since am a foreign national. Thank you!

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Transactional lawyer here. Assuming you have a year long lease, there’s nothing the LL can do to evict you before the end date of the lease. Just don’t definitively tell him that you will not be paying him one more cent. The law facilitates, not penalizes, communication between counter parties. Just tell him your situation and ask for any concessions he could make.

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Great advice.

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Does your legal status depend on your job? If answer is no then file for unemployment. That will at least get you 60% or so of your salary.

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CA, got it approved.

LL may or may not accommodate but I would think it’s in their best interest to work with you. Vacancy has to be more expensive than whatever you’d try to negotiate. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no!

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Were I you, I’d go with the last option. Face to face conversation is good for explanatory purposes but you want some written record to go with it

If you can find an add with apartment cheaper in your area than you pay currently, you can write a nice email to a landlord explaining that you would like to negotiate a rent, otherwise you will consider moving to an analogous apartment in your area for cheaper rent. And paste a link of that apartment with cheaper rent.

I use this tactic every time when my landlord increases rent at the end of a lease. The landlord always agreed with this argument and never asked me to leave or refused to renew a lease. My rent has not been increased for 5 years.

Make clear that you do not want to leave but that the rent is expensive in comparison with analogous apartments.

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