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From:Stoll - Stark, Judith, E (Serco NA US) <Judith.StollStark@SERCO-NA.COM>
Sent:Friday, June 6, 2025 1:42 PM
To:Agenda Item Comment
Subject:Fw: Rent suggestion
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From: Stoll - Stark, Judith, E (Serco NA US)
Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2025 2:58 PM
To: mayor@fayetteville-ar.gov <mayor@fayetteville-ar.gov>
Subject: Rent suggestion
Hello,
Good afternoon, I saw you have a meeting coming up in a few days about the housing/ rent issues Fayetteville is
experiencing.
I would like to send some suggestions/ ideas for you to consider looking at them.
Let me tell you a little about myself and what I am experiencing here in Fayetteville. My name is Judith Stoll-Stark I am
58 years old, and I moved to Fayetteville AR, 5 years ago with my job and live at the Hill Place Apartments.
As you probably know this apartment complex sizes are 1-4 bedrooms in one apartment.
Our rent went last year in August 2024 up more then 50% of what it was, my rent was $550 with all included, since
August 2024 my rent is $850 what does not include power anymore, so my bill went up to around $1000 a month for a
room.
This is getting ridiculous. Some of the other renters even pay more as they did not renew early as I did.
With this increase the HILL PLACE only rented out 60%-70% of the apartments if not less. This is the same for other
apartments complexes especially where Students are living.
Why does the city of Fayetteville not cooperate with the apartment complexes to fill this empty space with lower
income renters? There should be a way this companies could take lower rents, especially as they are losing income as
their apartments are not being filled! (Getting TAX breaks)
Plus, employees of the rental offices stated more than once that the increase of the rent in August 2024 was not
necessary in the amount it was done, it was just done because everyone one else went up with the rent!
As a result, the Hill Place lowered the renewal rates for August 2025 for 20 applications a $100 for the upcoming season-
what is a joke only 20/ then it went down to $75 for the next 20 and so on! That should be for all renewals!
If the rent would have been lower in the first place there would not have been any vacancies in the first place, not just
for the HILL PLACE other complexes too.
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My suggestions stop this year-to-year renewal trick to up the rents! Not just for Student apartments.
If you live somewhere, you should be grandfathered in your contract and only be allowed a 10% increase if needed
yearly.
Complexes that mainly rent to students and don’t have all apartments rented or renewed by June should be in contact
with the Housing Department of Fayetteville to find ways to fill the empty spaces with tenants other then students.
A mixed tenants cliental would be a great way to built relationships between young and older and between different
household incomes.
Another suggestion is built up especially big stores like Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, Hobby Lobby, Aldis, ect should have 1-
2 layers of apartments on top like a pyramid.
This apartment could help especially international students, or part time employees by this big companies that are not
willing to give employees full time jobs or sufficient wages to live off. (many international students don’t have cars while
they are here in school.)
Tiny house communities for singles, older singles, lower income families would be another way to solve the problem.
Vacant house or company buildings should not be left to rod away, they could be included in housing projects to help
homeless to remodel them and to live in them.
Stop building Warehouses ( empty for month after been built), Fast Food chains, big single houses, and STOP LETTING
PEOPLE FROM OTHER STATES BY PROPERTY FOR VACATION HOMES or to RENT WHOLE APARTMENT COMPLEXES OUT
FOR HIGH PRICES, if people don’t
live here for 9 month out of the year there is no need for them to have several houses, while hard working Fayetteville
Families and Workers can’t afford to live here!
We have so many Hotels, and on top we have to many R&B’s on top, these short-term rentals are taking long term
rental spaces off the market for hard working people in Fayetteville.
There are a lot more solutions then I mentioned , I lived in Germany for over 40 years and I seen the mixed housing is a
very good alternative.
Fayetteville was a very nice green area 5 years ago and now it is not the right green that this CITY has in the focus
anymore!
YOUR nature is your most important treasure, then it is your Fayetteville urban citizens.
Not everyone who lives here has rich parents to pay for their apartment!
Some of us have to decide to get rid of the car so they can pay rent as our income can not keep up with the outrageous
rent prices!
If we have to many Students that it causes that much increase in rent revenue we need to rethink and lower the
numbers of students.
No University can exist without his faculties employees or urban workers.
IF these rent prices keep rising Fayetteville will lose important workers to other communities.
Thank you for your time and consideration
Judith
Judith Stoll-Stark
Staffing Transition and Engagement Coordinator
479-335-4637
Judith.stollstark@serco-na.com
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