If you need the lawyer's name let me know.So now I'm sitting on owning an empty lot and still making loan payments.

He cleans the yard , empties the house , rips up carpet , gets rid of anything that looks bad .

I can’t believe you found one half empty unless it’s a declining neighborhood. 

Sadly, most often a person would be trapped in a loop of empty answers that don't speak to such end goal. 

I rarely if ever let or had a unit set empty for more than a few days.

Those are just empty inquiries that never result in transactions.

Excess units built: Research suggests the boom cycle led to the construction of 3 to 3.5 million more housing units than were needed based on historical trends.Peak vacancy: By the fourth quarter of 2008, the total number of vacant homes reached a record 19 million, or roughly 11% of all housing units.Types of vacant homes: This total included a significant number of properties not for sale, such as seasonal homes (around 4.8 million) and rental vacancies.Homes for sale: Around 2.23 million empty homes were for sale, and 4.1 million were vacant and available for rent.---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----The USA has a housing shortage of approximately 4.7 million to 4.9 million units, according to 2023 and 2024 estimates from sources like Zillow Group and Brookings.

If that unit was going to be empty for that month anyway, it's not a major difference in cost from doing nothing.

Your pipeline isn’t empty — because you didn’t wait for the “perfect time.”

You are absolutely correct, it's way better to be rented at a lower price than being empty.