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I cannot give a different answer from the others. If your lease allows for a rent increase, than the landlord can increase the rent. The lease itself would act as notice.If your lease does not allow for a rent increase, than the landlord cannot increase the rent.Read your lease.

If you live in the Bay Area, you get an annual rent increase notice in the 10% range. You get a half-dozen (or more) unsolicited recruiter messages every week. You get a once annual pay raise that may or may not cover your rent changes.You start to look at Glassdoor and realize that prices are increasing without you. Despite great salary, your savings are not really growing because a 2-bedroom for your family and two kids is costing $3500+ / month. And you'd like to have a third kid, but that means somebody has to sleep in the living room.Then you realize how rich tech companies have become on the back of the stuff you made. You know that Apple became one of the biggest companies in the world with only 60k employees, even now at 110k employees it has $187B in cash reserves. Yes that's $1.7M in cash per employee! You see that Slack has raised over $300M in funding and only has ~300 employees. That's 5+ years of runway per employee, regardless of whether your salary is $140k or $160k.You're told that you're a valued member of the team. The constant recruiter e-mails remind you of this, but none of them want to talk salary. And you're worried that your next pay raise isn't going to cover your next rent hike and that your standard of living is going down.That's when you start obsessing about salary.When there seems to be money everywhere, but you're still dumping half of your take home pay to cover the rent on a small apartment. Software Engineers are currently (2016) living in a weird universe where they are constantly hounded to "consider new opportunities", but no one is carrying a big check with that.Herbert Lee touches on the internal mentality. But when you strip away the ego, you realize that everyone is hiring and nobody has enough software developers. It's easy to realize that you actually are worth a lot of money and hence the obsession.It may not be this way forever, so this may be the real payday for experienced engineers. In 10 years it may be the biotech people raking in the cash.

Don’t take this personally, but your question is a perfect example of one of the biggest examples of mass ignorance I see on a day to day basis; this feeling that price is based just on cost. Lots of people think that way. And they think it is somehow a ‘duty’ of the person selling something to price their product low!So you aren’t the first person to feel like a property hasn’t changed in cost so why does it cost more. Back in the 80’s a friend of mine tried to make that same argument when his landlord raised his rent. The landlord’s exasperated response at the end of the conversation was, “If you don’t pay the new rent on the 1st, consider that your 30 day notice.”The truth is prices are set by market conditions, not cost. The landlord is balancing several factors, including the fact that he’d like to make as much as he can on his property. And admit it, if you owned a property, you’d do the same. He’d charge a million dollars a day for his property if he could get it which, sad for him, he can’t. But if he can get $2000 a month, if that’s what other similar units in that area are renting for, he’ll want that much, too, and if you don’t want to pay it, someone else will!That’s the bottom line. That’s why he raises the rent. Once your lease is up, you have to pay market rates. Sorry. I know it sucks.