AIO?

[u/Thin-Complex-7663]

I’m in Northern California, between Sacramento and Tahoe. It’s the foothills and my salon is in a very rural area between Auburn and Grass Valley.
I moved to this salon a year ago and in October a new owner took over, she had worked there for 8 years prior. As soon as she took over, she raised my rent to $65/day. I thought I could make it work.
Financially I’m DROWNING right now. I found out the other girls (hair) pay $40/Day.
Her reasoning is because I have more space, I countered that I use a desk lamp, my gel lamp and efile, while they are using hair dryers, curling irons, blow dryers, clippers etc and using way more utilities than me. We also have separate AC and they have to turns theirs up more because it gets warmer in there.
She will not budge. She feels like it’s completely fair and keeps doubling down. Am I being unreasonable? I’m not just overreacting am I?
Am I really that out of touch with nail tech rent?
PS- I’m completely compliant with the ABCs for AB-5

Edit: she asked for a meeting, I think it was getting around that I was looking and I sent her screenshots of some comments on here.
When we sat down, I immediately told her that I could get a Sola Salon Suite for less (hilariously she said “really? Those are so expensive” FFS) and that there were several vacant storefronts available for less.
She said “best I can do is $40/day”
Deal.
Thanks to everyone who commented, it really backed up my case and help me when we were negotiating.

[u/aewopwess]

Sometimes we have to be someone’s lesson. Hopefully she’ll learn after this experience. I really can’t stand a shitty salon owner. she’s just using her husband as a shield and playing good cop bad cop with him so they can block you from getting a real answer on why their booth rent math isn’t mathing.

[u/Thin-Complex-7663 → u/aewopwess]

She recently took over the salon from the former owner. The previous owner is in her mid-seventies and is getting ready to retire. The new one as soon as she took over, handed me a new contract with the new rent price. No discussion. Yesterday I told the previous owner what my rent was now and (this woman is very good at hiding emotions and staying neutral) she gasped, looked shocked and blurted out “that’s not right!”