One other important consideration is your monthly turnover.....here we seem to be in an extremely transient area, and we move in about 70 units a month, and move out about 55 or 60, with the highest amount of move-in's and move-out's occuring at the beginning of the month. Our rent is also due the first of the month, so we have a lot of people moving out at month end to keep from paying the next month's rent.

Our previous facility, the rent was due on the anniversary of the move-in date, so people moved in and out more evenly throughout the month, and also the turnover rate wasn't nearly so high.

Both move-in's and move-outs are time and labor consuming. So I would think it isn't the size of the facility so much that determines staffing, as it is the # of ins and outs you have every month.