<prompt> Human: Like the title says I just told my landlord that Id like to renew my lease. He emailed me back saying that he hasnt been following the rental market in my area and wanted to know what, in my opinion, a fair rent price increase would be for this year. Obviously, my first inclination is to say 0, I think my rent is already fairly priced. However, I was thinking if I can suggest a small increase 10 or so he may be more inclined to accept than 0. Does anyone know what I could cite as an authoritative source for this type of information? Or use to do some research to see what a fair increase would be. Im in the U.S. The irony of this all is that my landlord is actually an economist, so I want my reply to be grounded in hard facts, e.g. an authoritative rental price index or something like that if it exists. Thanks for any advice.tl;dr my landlord wants to know what I think is a fair rent increase for my lease renewal. How should I answer this? Any authoritative source for this type of info?  <response>: Well, at this point, according to X, Y, and Z, Im paying about 100 too much. What would you suggest we do about this? 