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Just charge what the utilities cost. Why you gotta make up some bullshit to tack ontop?
Because they’ll always invent some BS way to charge you more while providing less.
They thought of a bigger number and now its your problem.
Dragon levels of greed
Well, the article seems to explain it: they can't.
Local policies seem to cap the rent to protect renters, so they make up some bullshit extra fees to bypass those caps.
And a functional local government wouldn't allow that kind of sophistry and would treat that exactly like illegal rent increases. But you can't have both landlords existing and any level of functional government.
Utilities aren't rent.
Sometimes they're included, sometimes not, sometimes some are while others are not.