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edenfalling) wrote2021-07-07 07:20 pm
edenfalling) wrote2021-07-07 07:20 pm
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Covid-19 rebound, or, this rental season is even weirder than last year's rental season
So today I sent out literally 10 leases on the same apartment. Simultaneously. With a note to all the applicants that I had, in fact, sent out 10 simultaneous leases, and the first person to sign and pay would get the apartment.
This is ABSURD.
Then later in the afternoon, I sent 3 simultaneous leases for a different unit.
...
Last year, we were still renting apartments into November, and then had to scramble to rent a bunch again in the spring because a lot of our autumn leases were only 6-month contracts. We do not, as a general rule, offer 6-month contracts but last year was WEIRD.
This year is, I think, even weirder. We quite literally only have... *counts rapidly* ...11 units left, all shared housing options. (Well, 11 units not counting one long-term tenant who's having trouble with this year's renewal requirement of an apartment inspection before we write the lease, three people who haven't paid rent for months (and only one of whom took even modest advantage of a rent assistance program in February) and whose apartments we're consequently sitting on until we know what's up with the eviction moratorium, and one asshole subtenant who has been squatting in an apartment since last May. But hey, details.) And I fully expect 3 or 4 of those to rent tomorrow.
That is unprecedented. And leads to things like me sending out leases in batches of 3+ at a time.
I guess I will have more free time during the rest of the summer, once the crush is over?
This is ABSURD.
Then later in the afternoon, I sent 3 simultaneous leases for a different unit.
...
Last year, we were still renting apartments into November, and then had to scramble to rent a bunch again in the spring because a lot of our autumn leases were only 6-month contracts. We do not, as a general rule, offer 6-month contracts but last year was WEIRD.
This year is, I think, even weirder. We quite literally only have... *counts rapidly* ...11 units left, all shared housing options. (Well, 11 units not counting one long-term tenant who's having trouble with this year's renewal requirement of an apartment inspection before we write the lease, three people who haven't paid rent for months (and only one of whom took even modest advantage of a rent assistance program in February) and whose apartments we're consequently sitting on until we know what's up with the eviction moratorium, and one asshole subtenant who has been squatting in an apartment since last May. But hey, details.) And I fully expect 3 or 4 of those to rent tomorrow.
That is unprecedented. And leads to things like me sending out leases in batches of 3+ at a time.
I guess I will have more free time during the rest of the summer, once the crush is over?