Maybe it's obvious to people smarter than me but what possible advantage could there be for them to move people to a new apartment, or was it simply the apartment managers letting you know that was a way to save some money and beat the algorithm?
Some people will opt to pay instead of move, they can take down the worse apartment listing and relist the one that draws people in to the building, and I’m sure it’s an easy way to pad some average time on the market stat for their listings to make themselves look better to investors and real estate websites.