Vacancy Diagnostic: Why Isn't It Renting?
Every day a rental sits empty costs you rent ÷ 30 — often $80–160 a day. The reflex fix is a price cut, and it's frequently wrong: in the vacancies we analyze, price is only one of five reasons a listing doesn't rent. An analyst runs your listing through all five — with the evidence shown — and names the first fix. Delivered to your link and inbox within 48 hours. $49, once.
The five layers we check
- Price — against the right comps. A furnished mid-term rental measured against unfurnished 12-month listings will always look overpriced. We pull comparables from the channels your actual market uses, and show them.
- Terms — against the demand that exists. The most common invisible killer: minimum lease terms that filter out the very demand contacting you. We check what terms your competing listings accept.
- Channels — where your renter actually looks. Insurance placements, traveling clinicians, corporate stays, families — each searches somewhere different. We map who your property clears for and where they look.
- Listing hygiene. Stale minimums, missing details, wrong figures on your own listings — we audit what your listings actually say against what you mean.
- Fit. Some demand can't use your property (stairs, layout, parking). Naming what it won't clear for stops you pricing for a renter who was never coming.
Plus the market clock: how long listings in your market actually take to lease right now, so "too long" is a measured claim, not a feeling.
What you get
A written diagnostic: the verdict up front ("your price is fine — your minimum stay is the filter"), each layer's evidence with the comparables linked and dated, and a ranked fix list with the first move named. Run by an analyst, not a formula — that's why it takes up to 48 hours and why it catches what calculators can't.
Not legal advice. The diagnostic is decision support built from public listing data and market records — not an appraisal, not a guarantee of leasing, and not legal advice. Comparables are asking prices unless stated otherwise, and that basis is always disclosed.
Common questions
How is this different from a rent estimate?
A rent estimate answers one question — the price — against generic comps. The diagnostic checks five: price against channel-correct comps, lease terms vs real demand, channel coverage, listing accuracy, and property fit. In the stuck listings we see, the answer usually lives outside the price.
Why does it take up to 48 hours?
Because an analyst actually runs it: pulling your market's live comparables, checking their lease terms, auditing your listings, and writing the verdict. Automated answers are instant and generic; this is neither.
What if the answer really is just the price?
Then you'll get that verdict with the comparables shown — and you'll cut once, to a number with evidence under it, instead of shaving $100 a month off in guesses while the vacancy burns.
Do you handle furnished and mid-term rentals?
Yes — they're a specialty. Furnished/mid-term is where generic comps mislead most, and where terms and channels (insurance placements, travel clinicians, corporate stays) decide outcomes.