Should landlords be allowed to use algorithms to set rent?

Their goal is to price gouge you. Restricting them could be the move.

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They can do whatever they want. Free country. Live somewhere cheaper if a calculator bothers you that much.

yeah people can totally just teleport somewhere cheaper with their job and whole life

Sure? You want to limit landlords ability to use a computer?

No.. a landlord using a spreadsheet is fine duh. But when the software recommends leaving units empty rather than lowering rent we have a problem.

The issue is indirect collusion by using the same service to create prices. No one gives a rats ass about google docs

Only with real transparency and antitrust oversight. Ten landlords implementing the same price looks a lot like price fixing. Put em in jail.

Transparency should include telling tenants when software set the price and what data it used.