Our ds is also in the LA area. He and his roommate have been in their apartment for two years, but have been month-to-month for the last year of that (ever since their first one-year lease expired). They are putting their stuff in storage and doing an AirBnb in Palm Springs for the month of September. Not sure what is going to happen after that. It will not surprise me if they just continue with short-term rentals at least until January. We have told ds he is welcome to come here and stay as long as he likes. He’s thinking about doing that from Thanksgiving until after New Year’s.
Another friend’s daughter who graduated from college with ds lives in DC. She is doing the AirBnb thing for the month of October and then moving “home” to her family of origin until January. She anticipates being able to get a much lower rental rate in the DC area at that time.