The Rent Increase Kit
Seven tools that turn a checker verdict into letters, ledgers and filings — each one pre-built around the statute that governs your case.
One-time payment. No subscription. Run the free checker first — if your verdict is “legal as served,” the negotiation pack below is the reason to buy anyway.Cites the statute or ordinance by number, states the lawful maximum for your unit, the dollar excess, and the repayment demand for every month you overpaid — with the treble-damages exposure noted where the law provides it (California). Fill in your verdict’s numbers; the wording is done.
Included in the $39 Rent Increase Kit
For the coverage fight: the letter that answers “my building is exempt” with the exemption’s own terms — no statutory notice served, or a corporate owner who was never eligible to claim it.
Included in the $39 Rent Increase Kit
States the notice the law required, the notice you got, and the earliest date the increase can lawfully take effect — pre-drafted for every notice tier we track, from Maine’s 75-day rule to Seattle’s 180.
Included in the $39 Rent Increase Kit
A dated timeline (complaint → increase → presumption window) and the letter that asserts the presumption and puts the burden where the statute puts it.
Included in the $39 Rent Increase Kit
Month-by-month tally of what you were charged against what the law allowed — the repayment number used in the letters, the rent-board complaint, and small claims.
Included in the $39 Rent Increase Kit
Where to file, what to attach, and what happens next: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, NYC DHCR, DC’s Rent Administrator, Montgomery County DHCA, Washington’s Attorney General, Oregon, Seattle, and the New Jersey town boards and park hardship route.
Included in the $39 Rent Increase Kit
For legal-as-served verdicts: the counter-offer script word for word, the market-comparison letter built from your own comparables, renewal-term trades (longer lease for a smaller increase), and a renewal tracker so next year’s letter never catches you unprepared.
Included in the $39 Rent Increase Kit
This kit is information and documents, not a lawyer. It does not create an attorney-client relationship, and it cannot file anything for you. If you have received a court summons or an eviction filing, that clock outranks every letter here — contact legal aid or a tenant attorney the same day. Where legal aid will take a strong capped-jurisdiction case for free, take the free help; this kit is for the people whose case is real but who cannot get the appointment, and for verdicts no free service computes at all.
Yes — the full verdict, cap math included, costs nothing and asks for no email address. Your answers never leave your phone.
Then item 7 is the kit: the negotiation pack. A lawful increase can still be negotiated down, spread out, or traded for a longer term.
Deep files: California (with its regional cap table), Oregon, Washington; metro files for New York City & the ETPA counties, New Jersey towns, Washington DC, Montgomery County MD, St. Paul, Portland ME, Chicago and Seattle; parks files for nine states; and the 50-state notice layer everywhere. A city we have not read in primary text gets a routing answer, never a made-up number.