<prompt> Human: A short while back, we received our annual notice that its time to renew our lease. It came with a whopping 8 increase. I went to the office and asked if they would reconsider. Weve been good tenants for almost five years. The complex manager called the corporate office, and they offered me a 4 increase instead. In addition, they said I only had 48 hours for that rate to remain in effect.At this point, I was resigned to taking the deal, but told them I was looking at a couple of other places over the weekend and would let them know. Later that day, they called with a new offer - a 10 month lease with no rent increase.Just asking saved me 1740 over that 10 month period. Im fully expecting them to come back asking for more money after 10 months, but Im saving up just in case so well have options and be able to move if we so choose.Assistant: Be aware though that sometimes agencies do this because they might end the lease when it is advantageous to the landlord. That is. If your lease ended in November and now it ends in September, there is more of a market for them to rent out kind of thing. Not a big deal since you expect it to go up and are making plans to move out if need be, but just want to give the heads up, 7up. Human: Yep. I wondered about the 10 month lease myself. But, this does give me more time to shop around and save.  <response>: This is almost certainly what happened. Theyre banking on getting more rent for a new lease at the beginning of Summer 2016 than theyd get from you renewing then.There is a lot of analysis put into the pricing and crazy amounts of money spent on software to optimize it. 