The Vacancy Cost Worksheet

Your empty unit's per-day cost in five fill-in lines — the rent floor, the utilities that shift to you, the turnover spend, and the loaded number that turns every turnover decision into arithmetic. The accounting is done honestly: the worksheet counts what vacancy causes and names what it exposes without the double-count that makes online vacancy math scary and wrong. Part three converts your number into decisions — what a delay costs, how many days a photography budget must save to be free, and the exact breakeven a rent cut must beat — with the counterweight printed at the bottom: compress turnaround days, never screening days.

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