What I mean is... I found a very nice Brooklyn apartment that's rent stabilized. The rent is a very round number... $2,000. Now I know from prior experience that RS is never such an even number like that. The RS rent on my last apartment was like $1761.17. The other thing is, the original listed price was $2200 and I negotiated it down to $2000. The lease signing is tomorrow, but clearly this isn't the legal rent.
Now in terms of my financial requirements to rent this place, I kind of juuuuust barely got approved after the landlord had some worries about my finances. I don't necessarily want to mention anything about the actual RS figure before I sign the lease because they could replace me in a second, it's a very in-demand area with very low vacancy. So I plan on signing the lease tomorrow then going straight to 25 Beaver St (can I still go there now that I'm in BK or do I have to go to a BK office?) to check the rent history. Does this sound like a good plan? If I get the rent history and then find out I'm being overcharged (despite not having paid any rent yet), do you think I could get them to drop the rent immediately?
Thank you!