Field notes

Notes from rent rolls and empty floors

These pieces stay with occupancy, leases, and asset condition. They are not essays about digital change.

Bright apartment living room with a large window and wooden floor

2026-03-12

Reading a rent roll without smoothing the empty floors

Owners often receive a single occupancy percentage. This note explains how to keep vacant floors visible instead of folding them into an average.

Furnished studio apartment with a sofa and kitchen counter

2026-04-02

What under-notice space is not

A tenant who has given notice still occupies the unit. Treating that space as vacant distorts both the current picture and the letting plan.

Brick house with a front porch and a tidy garden path

2026-05-18

Asset performance is not the same as yield

A building can collect rent on time and still perform poorly if common parts, plant, or vacant retail drag on the holding.

Bedroom with a made bed and a window looking onto trees

2026-06-09

Counting bedsits and family flats on the same stair

Unit mix on one staircase changes how vacancy should be described. A family flat empty for eight weeks is not the same event as a bedsit empty for eight weeks.

Printed financial tables and a pen on a wooden desk

2026-07-21

When an occupancy dashboard should stay on the owner's desk

Some occupancy pictures belong in a private folder, not in a shared board. This piece covers files that should remain local.