"The rents and the cost of doing business are going up."
His rent went up this year from $830 to $5,000 a month.
If rents go up, they said, the middle class goes out.
Her rent has gone from about $800 a month to $1,000.
If it is lower, the rent would go to that level in the first year.
Then the rent went up - by a factor of ten.
The rent only went for six feet in length and a dozen across, maybe as deep.
East, west, north, and south the rents are going up.
"The rent went from $349 to $600 in three years," he said.
The rent for our flat is going to increase by over 15%, so we have decided to try to find a new place.