Landlord turns a tenant’s apartment into a 3-month-long renovation experiment, then raises rent because the unit is now considered upgraded – FAIL Blog

Landlords have discovered that the word upgraded is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the rental market right now. Slap some gray vinyl flooring over the old floor, swap out two light fixtures, paint over the trim, install a bathroom fan that sounds like a small aircraft, and suddenly you have a modernized unit that justifies a rent increase. The fact that someone was living inside the renovation the entire time is more of a logistical detail than a moral consideration.