{"id":1225,"date":"2026-09-23T23:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buy.daytonproper.com\/owners\/vacancy-calculator\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:28:20","slug":"vacancy-calculator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/buy.daytonproper.com\/ar\/owners\/vacancy-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacancy Cost Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lost rent is only part of what an empty month costs you. The taxes, insurance and mortgage keep running, the make-ready has to happen, and the unit has to be marketed again. This adds it up, then answers the question every owner actually asks: is it worth dropping the rent to fill it faster?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f2f2f7;border-radius:14px;padding:22px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Segoe UI,Roboto,sans-serif;\"><div style=\"background:#fff;border-radius:12px;padding:18px;margin-bottom:14px;\"><div style=\"font-weight:700;margin-bottom:12px;\">The vacancy<\/div><label style=\"display:block;font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:10px 0 4px;\">Monthly rent<\/label><input id=\"vc_rent\" type=\"number\" value=\"1200\" style=\"width:100%;padding:9px;border:1px solid #d8d8de;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;\"><label style=\"display:block;font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:10px 0 4px;\">Days the unit sits empty<\/label><input id=\"vc_days\" type=\"number\" value=\"30\" style=\"width:100%;padding:9px;border:1px solid #d8d8de;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;\"><label style=\"display:block;font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:10px 0 4px;\">Monthly costs that keep running (mortgage, tax, insurance, utilities)<\/label><input id=\"vc_hold\" type=\"number\" value=\"900\" style=\"width:100%;padding:9px;border:1px solid #d8d8de;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;\"><label style=\"display:block;font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:10px 0 4px;\">Make-ready cost (paint, clean, repairs)<\/label><input id=\"vc_turn\" type=\"number\" value=\"1200\" style=\"width:100%;padding:9px;border:1px solid #d8d8de;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;\"><label style=\"display:block;font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:10px 0 4px;\">Leasing \/ marketing fee<\/label><input id=\"vc_lease\" type=\"number\" value=\"750\" style=\"width:100%;padding:9px;border:1px solid #d8d8de;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;\"><\/div><div style=\"background:#fff;border-radius:12px;padding:18px;margin-bottom:14px;\"><div style=\"font-weight:700;margin-bottom:12px;\">What it costs<\/div><div style=\"display:flex;justify-content:space-between;padding:7px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;\"><span>Rent you never collect<\/span><b id=\"vc_lost\">&mdash;<\/b><\/div><div style=\"display:flex;justify-content:space-between;padding:7px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;\"><span>Costs that ran anyway<\/span><b id=\"vc_carry\">&mdash;<\/b><\/div><div style=\"display:flex;justify-content:space-between;padding:7px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;\"><span>Make-ready and leasing<\/span><b id=\"vc_fixed\">&mdash;<\/b><\/div><div style=\"display:flex;justify-content:space-between;padding:11px 0 4px;font-size:18px;\"><span><b>Total cost of this vacancy<\/b><\/span><b id=\"vc_total\" style=\"color:#0A6CFF;\">&mdash;<\/b><\/div><div style=\"display:flex;justify-content:space-between;padding:4px 0;color:#555;\"><span>Every day it stays empty<\/span><b id=\"vc_day\">&mdash;<\/b><\/div><\/div><div style=\"background:#fff;border-radius:12px;padding:18px;\"><div style=\"font-weight:700;margin-bottom:6px;\">Should you drop the rent to fill it?<\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:0 0 10px;\">Cutting the asking rent costs you every month of the lease. Holding out costs you every day it sits. Here is where those two meet.<\/p><label style=\"display:block;font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:10px 0 4px;\">Rent reduction you are considering ($\/month)<\/label><input id=\"vc_cut\" type=\"number\" value=\"50\" style=\"width:100%;padding:9px;border:1px solid #d8d8de;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;\"><label style=\"display:block;font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:10px 0 4px;\">Lease term (months)<\/label><input id=\"vc_term\" type=\"number\" value=\"12\" style=\"width:100%;padding:9px;border:1px solid #d8d8de;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;\"><p id=\"vc_verdict\" style=\"margin:14px 0 0;padding:12px;background:#f2f2f7;border-radius:9px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5;\">&mdash;<\/p><\/div><\/div><script>(function(){var g=function(i){var v=parseFloat((document.getElementById(i)||{}).value);return isNaN(v)?0:v;};var m=function(n){return \"$\"+Math.round(n).toLocaleString();};function c(){var rent=g(\"vc_rent\"),days=g(\"vc_days\"),hold=g(\"vc_hold\"),turn=g(\"vc_turn\"),lease=g(\"vc_lease\"),cut=g(\"vc_cut\"),term=g(\"vc_term\");var lost=rent\/30*days,carry=hold\/30*days,fixed=turn+lease,total=lost+carry+fixed,per=(rent+hold)\/30;document.getElementById(\"vc_lost\").textContent=m(lost);document.getElementById(\"vc_carry\").textContent=m(carry);document.getElementById(\"vc_fixed\").textContent=m(fixed);document.getElementById(\"vc_total\").textContent=m(total);document.getElementById(\"vc_day\").textContent=m(per)+\" a day\";var co=cut*term,be=per>0?co\/per:0;document.getElementById(\"vc_verdict\").innerHTML=cut<=0?\"Enter a reduction to compare.\":\"Dropping the rent by \"+m(cut)+\" a month costs you <b>\"+m(co)+\"<\/b> over a \"+term+\"-month lease. An empty unit costs <b>\"+m(per)+\" a day<\/b>. So the lower rent is worth it if it fills the place <b>\"+Math.ceil(be)+\" days sooner<\/b> &mdash; and it is not if it doesn&rsquo;t.\";}[\"vc_rent\",\"vc_days\",\"vc_hold\",\"vc_turn\",\"vc_lease\",\"vc_cut\",\"vc_term\"].forEach(function(i){var e=document.getElementById(i);if(e)e.addEventListener(\"input\",c);});c();})();<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Estimates for comparing choices, not a forecast. For a real number on a real address, <a href=\"https:\/\/buy.daytonproper.com\/owners\/free-rental-analysis\/\">ask us for a rental analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an empty month really costs once you count lost rent, holding costs, make-ready and leasing \u2014 and whether cutting the rent pays for itself.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":913,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1225","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_hostinger_reach_plugin_has_subscription_block":false,"_hostinger_reach_plugin_is_elementor":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buy.daytonproper.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buy.daytonproper.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buy.daytonproper.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buy.daytonproper.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buy.daytonproper.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buy.daytonproper.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1225\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buy.daytonproper.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buy.daytonproper.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}