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Please revert back to the previous site design that doesn’t give me a headache with all the moving pieces and clutter all over the place. You went backwards, many steps. There’s nothing good in the new design.
Please see: Limp Mode Engaged. We’re not going to waste (too much) time on the limp mode site, other than to keep it up and running while we resolve the issue(s) at hand.
Is there a difference between “Asking rents in SF are ticking up,” and “Rents in SF are ticking up”? I’ve noticed you use “asking” in such headlines, and I’ve wondered if there’s a difference in meaning.
Robert: you can look at Related Rentals’ Fifteen Fifty (i.e., 1550 Mission St.), as a straightforward example.
Last I checked, they were leasing corner-located 1 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom units for $4,300 monthly. But in order to get punters to sign a 15 month lease on a vacant market-rate unit, they are having to offer 8-Weeks Free Rent as a so-called “concession”. So the effective rent is $55.9k total over the fifteen months, and if you divide that by the duration of the lease you get almost $3,727 monthly, or a 3.3 percent decrease from the “asking rent”, for the “actual rent” being charged.