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> The survey revealed that 16 percent of owners reported residents broke their leases or unexpectedly gave a 30-Day Notice to Vacate. > A total of 315 landlords responded to the survey, owning or managing 10,377 residential apartments citywide...

So, 50 landlords (~16% of 315) reported that they had at least one tenant unexpectedly leave early? Over what time period? How many tenants in total? This may or may not be an interesting story - we can't tell.

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So it could be as few as 50/10377 = 0.5% of tenants broke their lease. This is a useless survey unless they asked the landlords how many of their tenants broke their lease.

As typical of sensationalist media these days looking to get clicks.

Unfortunately not every survey will meet the high standards of internet commenters looking for blood

I understand why you might feel this way, but I don't think the parent and grandparent comments are necessarily "looking for blood." They bring up valid concerns.

Disclosure: I haven't read the linked article.

Whose blood are commenters looking for by pointing out that the data given in the piece fails to lend any credence to the "alarming rate" claim?

or any standard at all?

Yeah, the statistics are kinda crappy.

What would be more useful is of the 10,377 apartments these landlords represent, how many of those apartments broke their lease?

Not only that but how many break their leases before this pandemic? Also like someone mentioned above over what time period. Over the last week or month or ... what?

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