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Yep. The idea that you have one unit while the landlord has multiple units is not true.

You have the choice of a hundred units. And its their responsibility to fight with each other to make you choose one of them. Thats what keeps them honest and gives you bargaining power.

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For renewing your lease, you have a choice of exactly one unit. Since the switching cost is high, the landlord has the ability to extract money beyond what a new renter would pay for the unit.

Until they collude with each other.

Which isn’t happening, so what’s your point?

Tenants can also collide.

That’s not collusion, that’s called a union.

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