How Much Does Vacancy Cost Your Rental?
Put a number on the empty months — lost rent plus the costs that keep running.
Your numbers
Mortgage, insurance, tax and charges you still pay while empty.
Total financial impact
$4,800
$3,000 of rent not collected plus $1,800 of costs during the void.
The breakdown
Effect on the year
What this means
2 empty months
$3,000 of rent is not collected, about 17% of the expected annual rent entered.
Costs keep running
About $1,800 of property costs still have to be paid across those months.
Spread across the year
Set against twelve months, this works out to roughly $400 per month.
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Propertira provides estimates based on the information you enter. Results are for informational purposes only and are not financial, tax, legal or investment advice.
Why vacancy is easy to underestimate
Rent arrives monthly, so it is tempting to think of a void as one missing payment. In practice the loss lands twice: the rent does not arrive, and the mortgage, insurance and service charges still do. Over a year that combination moves the result far more than a modest rent increase ever could.
Turnover costs — cleaning, small repairs, advertising — often follow a void as well. They are not included above, so treat the figure as the floor rather than the full picture.
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Once you know your void exposure, check what a normal month looks like with the cash flow calculator or find your cost floor with the break-even rent calculator.
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