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If you decided not to pay rent in April 2020, you are in good company. About 31% of renters did not pay on time<\/a>, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council. Clearly this is a time of financial hardship for many, and governors everywhere have announced a halting of foreclosures and evictions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Ignore The Headlines – Bad But Not So Bad<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So far, all of the headlines have said 1\/3 of America is not paying their rent. That sounds horrible, but that’s the problem with sensational headlines. Everyone reads it and assumes we dropped instantly from 100% of people paying rent to every third household becoming deadbeats. It’s not true.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Just the month prior, for rent due March 1st, prior to almost all of the USA Covid-19 spread, only 81% of households paid their rent on time according to the same data source, the NMHC. And that was the month following all-time highs for the economy on many fronts (record low unemployment with record high stock markets).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It also helps to look at one year prior, where 82% of households paid rent on time. So 81% to 69% is the number. Yes, it’s a big blow to landlords. An increase from the usual 19% delinquent renters to 31%. More than a 50% increase in late or unpaid rent. But it’s not the mass wave of deadbeats suggested, where an apartment complex has 300 paying tenants and suddenly 100 of them stop.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Any Data Bias?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We are always mindful of any strange bias sources in the data. The 69% number comes from rent-collection and property management software such as Yardi \/ Appfolio. Who uses these? Mostly large, multi-family property managers who own big apartments complexes. There is a large number of tenant and landlord relationships that use more old-fashioned methods: the monthly check, or monthly cash payment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Whether or not smaller landlords will see better payment patterns in unclear, but I would lean towards slightly better than the 69%. The relationship is more personal than a big, faceless company, and unfortunately collections is probably more stringent, with tenant rights not always respected.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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