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Keeping Your Apartment Rental Clean

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Keeping Your Apartment Rental Clean By Victoria Robertson Staying neat, tidy and organized is difficult to do when you’re living in an apartment, especially when you are living with roommates. However, when you are renting, it’s not only your cleanliness that’s on the line, but also your deposit. In more cases than not, individuals end…

Signs You’re Ready To Move Off-Campus

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Signs You’re Ready To Move Off-Campus By Ashley Paskill As a freshman, depending on your school, you likely were forced to live in the dorms. However, once you became an upperclassman, you gained an option to either live in the dorms or move off-campus. While this decision is easy for some, others may have a…

First Steps to Looking for a College Apartment

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First Steps to Looking for a College Apartment By Brittany Loeffler The first time most people live on their own is in their college apartment. After their freshman year of living in a dormitory, many students will move off campus into an apartment because it can help save them money and gives them more space…
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Individual vs. Single Leasing your College Apartment

Apartment Living, Leasing Information, Manager's Corner, Off Campus Housing, Parent's Corner, Roommates
  Landlords and tenants have certain options available to them when signing a student apartment lease agreement. As the landlord, you may either sign a separate lease with each tenant or ask them to cosign a single lease. Of course, there are pros and cons to each. Signing individual leases Landlords commonly use this method…
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Proximity or Amenities? Modern Trends in Student Housing Development

Apartment Living, Industry News, Manager's Corner, Off Campus Housing, Transportation
  What do modern students want most from their college apartment? Proximity to campus? Luxury amenities? Privacy? Affordability? This issue was debated during the 11th annual InterFace Student Housing conference held in Austin, Texas this past April. There, developers of student apartments from around the country weighed the pros and cons of various types of…
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Cities Like Austin Crack Down on College Apartment Affordability

Apartment Living, Budgeting, Industry News, Manager's Corner, Off Campus Housing, Parent's Corner
  The Federal Reserve reports that 42% of people who attend college incur student loan debt. Today, this number totals nearly $1.6 trillion dollars in the U.S. alone, and costs are steadily on the rise. Tuition and housing make up the majority of the expense of attending higher education, with student housing costs actually exceeding…
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How Gen Z’s Expectations are Changing Student Housing

Apartment Living, Industry News, Manager's Corner, Off Campus Housing
  As student populations change, so too must student apartments. Gen Z’s expectations for student apartments have proven considerably different from those of their Millennial counterparts. These changes have not gone unnoticed by student housing property developers, who now focus on modern interior design and curating amenities with modern appeal.   Modern Aesthetic What’s so…
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Santa Monica College Students Rejoice: City Temporarily Bans Unaffordable Micro-Apartments

Apartment Living, Budgeting, Industry News, Off Campus Housing, Parent's Corner
  Affordable student apartments? Santa Monica is finally doing something about the sudden spike in market-rate “single room occupancy” (SRO) units. On Tuesday 3/26, the city passed an emergency ordinance temporarily banning apartments under 375 square feet. This ordinance will last for 45 days until the city can devise a permanent solution to the problem.…
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Turning Your College Apartment into a Zen Den

Apartment Gear, Apartment Living, Decorating Tips, Maintenance Tips, Off Campus Housing, Roommates, Study Tips
  You may not be surprised to learn that the chaotic atmosphere of your student apartment could be contributing to heightened stress-levels. We connect with our environments whether we like it or not, so turning your college apartment into a zen den could be just what the doctor ordered! How, you ask? Contemplate your surroundings.…
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