We rent our place off a guy that DP works with and in August they sent us a rent renewal and a letter stating they were putting our rent up $10 which i understand isnt much, so DP contacted the owner and he had no idea about the rent rise he contacted the real estate and gave them his notice to stop renting the house through them. So after Christmas we'll be paying our rent straight to the owner unless he finds another real estate.
There's not alot on the rental market, i wanted to move before the baby is here as we're living in a huge house and not very close to shops, but DP said we'd stay here for a bit after the baby is born.