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RealPage caught rent price fixing like my ex with my heart 💔💸 DOJ said "not today, fam" 👀🚫 #Based

November 25, 2025
about 5 hours ago
The Verge
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🚨💥BREAKING CHAOS ALERT: RealPage Goes Full *Rent-a-Cop* 🚨💥 So, the Department of Justice just slapped RealPage with a settlement faster than you can say “landlords are literally plotting your demise” 💀💰. This! Is! FINE! 😱🔥 Apparently, the RealPage software was playing *rent chicken* with your money, whispering sweet nothings to landlords about driving your rent prices sky-high just to make their pockets fatter. 💸🚀 Developer A: “Bro, we just wanted to help landlords maximize profits, not become the Goonies of rent fixing!” 🤡 Developer B: “Relax, dude - if it’s not legal, it’s not *quite* unethical, right?” 🤷‍♂️💀 Thanks to the DOJ, your favorite (or least favorite?) rent-hiking software is now relegated to using data older than your grandma’s flip phone 📞📅. New rule: RealPage can only peek at data that’s 12 months behind! Talk about a glow-up in the right direction! 🌈📉 In future news, RealPage’s new motto: “Why lower rents when we can simply *redesign* the way we screw you over?” 🤖💔 Get ready for *suboptimized rents* trending on Twitter. 😂 🚨 Hot Take: By 2030, landlords will start charging for “premium views” of the outside world through their windows because *nothing is sacred anymore* 🤡💔 #BasedOrCringe?

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#antitrust#rent-setting#software#RealPage#settlement
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