San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates

Re:San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates by idiot900 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:40PM (#23647510)

> The survey revealed that 16 percent of owners reported residents broke their leases or unexpectedly gave a 30-Day Notice to Vacate. > A total of 315 landlords responded to the survey, owning or managing 10,377 residential apartments citywide...

So, 50 landlords (~16% of 315) reported that they had at least one tenant unexpectedly leave early? Over what time period? How many tenants in total? This may or may not be an interesting story - we can't tell.

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Re:San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates by cameldrv on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:29PM (#23647828)

So it could be as few as 50/10377 = 0.5% of tenants broke their lease. This is a useless survey unless they asked the landlords how many of their tenants broke their lease.

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Re:San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates by apta on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:11AM (#23648895)

As typical of sensationalist media these days looking to get clicks.

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Re:San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates by anoncareer0212 on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:30AM (#23648978)

Unfortunately not every survey will meet the high standards of internet commenters looking for blood

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Re:San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates by peanut_is_yum on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:49AM (#23649088)

I understand why you might feel this way, but I don't think the parent and grandparent comments are necessarily "looking for blood." They bring up valid concerns.

Disclosure: I haven't read the linked article.

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Re:San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates by mandelbrotwurst on Friday June 26, 2020 @10:27AM (#23652314)

Whose blood are commenters looking for by pointing out that the data given in the piece fails to lend any credence to the "alarming rate" claim?

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Re:San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates by jon_elbrook on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:05AM (#23649785)

or any standard at all?

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Re:San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates by refurb on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:50PM (#23647579)

Yeah, the statistics are kinda crappy.

What would be more useful is of the 10,377 apartments these landlords represent, how many of those apartments broke their lease?

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Re:San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates by stx on Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:40PM (#23648447)

Not only that but how many break their leases before this pandemic? Also like someone mentioned above over what time period. Over the last week or month or ... what?

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