Comment by epistasis
1 hour ago
No, those are advertised prices, not actual prices.
Look at the difference in prices between recent home sales and listed home prices, it's exactly the sort of information differential I'm talking about.
The US protects its homeowners above all, which is why there are these public databases of true sale prices of real estate. Renters should have the same protections and information too.
But, those... are the actual bid and asks for the home that you were able to verify yourself online, because it's public data?
It's not very common for residential rental agreements to differ substantially from the listed price in the US. It is quite common for long time tenants to pay a different (usually much lower) rate than new listings (often as a result of government regulation or just people being nice to each other).
What realpage did that was illegal was suggest coordinated pricing/inventory management to their customers through their software.
What exactly are you expecting to uncover by knowing what people are paying for rent? I actually have nothing against that in principle. I just don't understand how that establishes any kind of evidence that somebody is doing something wrong.