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lasagnahog1 OP t1_j0bsm2h wrote

Reply to comment by jay5627 in I created a tool that lets you see how much New Yorkers ACTUALLY pay for rent. by lasagnahog1

we have a couple different ways to check but the main way is we have third-party data on what the average rent should be (roughly) for zipcodes and beds / baths etc. So we compare user inputs to that to make sure it's within a reasonable range.

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Guypussy t1_j0c50au wrote

> we have third-party data

So Zillow and StreetEasy search results?

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virtual_adam t1_j0ct9sv wrote

So basically the only thing we can see on your site is a bunch of rents that are within ~15% range of the average we already know. Ground breaking stuff.

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intjish_mom t1_j0de3x4 wrote

average rent will miss a lot of people. there are people that's been in their apartments since the 70s so they are paying $500/rent and there are people who are trust fund babies that literally rent places for hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. if i had kept my apartment from 2016 and only paid the 2% max increase for a rent stabilized apartment, i wouldn't be paying more than $1500 right now if i did my math correctly. my same apartment is now renting for 1900 on zillow.

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