Re:San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn
by billjings on Monday June 01, 2020 @02:14PM
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My friends in property management tell me that people are indeed moving. My neighbor had a turnover just last month. Job losses plus no rent relief pretty much require that people will move.
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Re:San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn
by jedberg on Monday June 01, 2020 @02:20PM
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People are moving out but not in. Move-ins set the rental rate. A lot of people are leaving for lower cost areas or to move in with family.
Re:San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn
by dan-robertson on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:07PM
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Not everyone is stuck at home with no income. If I were working in the Bay Area for a company that was still doing ok, and I were already planning to move around now, I would definitely see this as an opportunity to get a good deal on rent by moving. Maybe some other people are thinking this. Or maybe they are thinking that there is no point moving elsewhere in the Bay Area and are moving further out.
Though I would certainly expect the number of transactions to decrease a lot.
Re:San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn
by jedberg on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:14PM
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Up until the new modified shelter in place orders, you couldn't move unless your lease expired or you already had the move planned. Also moving companies were allowed to stay open if they provided their movers with PPE, so many chose to shut down.
So for the most part people just couldn't move, even if they wanted to.
Re:San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn
by dan-robertson on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:58AM
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But if few people are moving anyway (for reasons above) then it doesn’t matter if there are fewer moving companies because of the above. Obviously some people are moving or the OP wouldn’t have been written