Turbo Tenant published the 2026 state of the rental industry report. In the category how long does it take YOU to fill your vacancy, the following table was reported.

No Vacancies ...........16.7%

Under 2 weeks ......... 17.9%

2 to 4 weeks .............30.3%

1 to 2 months .............22.1%

over 2 months ............12.7%

Now this isn't to put anyone on the spot, but if you are average or even below average in this area, maybe you could consider beefing up your marketing areas in your business. Two out of every three landlords is taking less than a month to get a place filled up.

Define vacancy. It takes me on average 45-60 days (these days) to sign a new lease. But since we start marketing 60 days out, we rarely have an unplanned vacancy. We lost zero dollars in rent last year despite multiple turnovers.

I will go to their site and have a look at the info to get the time frames right.

But if it is year to date I am in the 17.9% category. Unless you count rehabs that needed done. I believe I only had one of those that was long lasting.

Got my last place rented the day it opened up. Tenant gave notice and new tenant waiting patiently.

Have one ongoing big rehab now. If I could get it done fast like I have a great prospect for it. Alas I do not see completion happening quickly with all the other stuff that is going on.

In Los Angeles, we lost the ability to charge rents on a fair and equitable basis. Instead, we can only raise rents 10% above what the last tenant was paying. So my long term tenants that die at 90, paying less than half of market, their units after being upgraded and overhauled, can only be raised 10%. So instead I have over 20 vacant units that I'd rather stay empty, they rent to strangers that I can not run a past eviction credit check, nor a full credit background check, and take 6 to 12 months to evict.

Ordinary things get snapped up the moment they're available, or before. Word-of-mouth usually generates plenty of options to choose from.

I did not see what they defined as a vacancy or if they separated an economic vacancy from a scheduled turn over. Here what they see in the numbers from the industry.

Nearly half of landlords fill vacancies

within a month, and roughly one in six

report having no vacancies at all over the

past year.

This points to a key driver of stability: low

turnover. Rather than relying on new

demand, many landlords are maintaining

occupancy through longer tenant stays.

"Two out of every three landlords is taking less than a month to get a place filled up."

What's the name of that one game? Uhmmm? Oh yeah, bull .......

Now let's do a real survey and find out how many of those LL are screening properly. Then let's survey and find out how many of those LL's are filing eviction or booting them out in the near future.

I'm 2-4 weeks once I start advertising.

I'm not so sure that beefing up my marketing would help. If there are no good qualified tenants out there, it doesn't matter how many losers I can reach to fire up their desire to rent my house.

I've tried several advertising platforms and my ads are good and the rentals are desirable. My rents are carefully adjusted to be competitive to similar properties.

If a solid orientation was preformed, followed by good routine enforcement of your standards - I have had success by paying my outgoing residents to show the place to some limited prescreened leads.

Yes it does cost you $300. And yes it does require the landlord to actually manage the property that -hey they are supposed to manage (not ignore and hope all is well).

But how much is that vacancy costing the landlord? Typically, the outgoing family needs to do three or four showings. And after they get stood up once, they are much more considerate about the move out process.

Is this a one solution answer to the marketing puzzle - nope....but it is a tool. That tool has saved me thousands over the years. My NET profit margins are only about 7%. You can elect to use a longer path if you want smaller cash flow profit at the end of the year.

How is hoping for that right person to come along working?

I am with WMH though. I sure wish they factored out intentional time empty for overhauling and phase maintenance.

Looks like they had a maximum of 2000 landlords that they questioned. Then, as I was looking thru the report a little it dropped to 1500 and then they mentioned 300 from another outlet.

Maybe it is included in the actual report. I did not download and read the PDF.