Reading a rent roll without smoothing the empty floors

A rent roll that ends with one occupancy percentage is easy to pass around a family table. It is also how an empty shop vanishes. If twelve of thirteen residential units are let and both ground-floor shops are dark, a blended figure can still look respectable. The shops remain empty.

When Server Flowcore reads a roll, each use is kept apart: rooms people sleep in, plates people work on, and frontage that faces the pavement. Vacant days are counted inside that use, not across the whole building. A ninety-day empty shop is still ninety days, even if the flats above never missed a month.

Smoothing happens when an owner, or a managing agent, wants the holding to look even. The reading we write refuses that courtesy. The table has columns. If a cell is vacant, it stays vacant on the page.

Bring the last roll you actually use, not a version prepared for a lender. The numbering call exists so that “third floor rear” in Georgian or “Suite B” in a Pennsylvania annex is the same unit in our table as in yours.

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