The rent is going up month after month! Since I help my parents to pay for the rent, I have noticed that the rent has been increasing month after month. I thought it was only us that the rent was increasing but everyone in the apartment, their rent was also increasing. Some of my friends that had their own place moved back with their parents for while because they couldn't keep up with the rent. Until they can manage to pay or to find somewhere else cheaper they will move back out. They are able to pay for their place, but since they help their parents as well and have other bill to pay they had to make a slight change and go back with their parents until everything goe back to normal. Since the of the apartment see that it is difficult to pay rent and other bills at the same time, the owners need to make a slight change so that they would not lose any of their clients by going somewhere and look for cheaper rent. They shuold know since the economy is affecting them too, it is also affecting those who pay rent since a full a time job is hard to find. However, as those expensive apartments, their pay rent that was suppose to be is now expected to fall since there is not a lot of people who would want to pay more than $2,500 dollars. As the expensive apartments rents are falling, the small apartments far from the hills are rising.