Re:San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless re...
by hcknwscommenter on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:10AM
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As a renter who has been casually looking for a bigger place in San Francisco for about a year (I am really picky and have a really nice place), it is my experience that decent units stay listed for at most 2 weeks and unoccupied for about 1 month.
True, but sometimes people just leave without giving warning, or the next person can't move in immediately. Sometimes, in a limited supply market, the landlord will wait for someone willing to pay a specific price since they know there's no other options.
In San Francisco, that's the case for roughly 5% of the units at any given time.