We try to get ahead of the issue by preventing it in the first place.

The fear of renting while out of town is common, but it's easy to overcome, especially when you have friends and a handyman.

This matters as different auctions are prone to different title issues.

Common fees will include a set-up fee, a leasing fee for each turnover or a lease renewal fee, marking up maintenance, retaining late fees, and more.

However, your issue would be lack of equity.

Most common is moving 100 miles away from the departing residence **for work**. 

I think communication seems to be the issue here especially with your comment on how the PM is unresponsive.

if you believe this is a common outcome I have a bridge to sell you.  

There are several other issues (undisclosed maintenance markup fees, excessive charges to our account, significant reductions to agreed rent without communication, etc).

Most take near a year in southern Ca, but you hear of exceptions in both directions on that timeline.What some developers are doing here is leveraging the affordability issue and getting permission to build additional ADUs by designating some as affordable or semi affordable units.