Mt Pleasant wants your money but when it comes to you as an individual … not so much.
The police view the students as an unrestrained nuisance, the business community wants your patronage but not you, and the courts will side with local landlords and landowners everytime over what are considered transients regardless of the circumstances.
I urge all students to register to vote locally ensuring your legitimate voice in local affairs.
The police are a reasonable bunch as long as the student acts respectfully. The businesses like Max & Emily’s or the Market on Main are always friendly to students (it would be a pretty dumb business practice to do the opposite.) And as to the landlords and landowners, as long as you avoid United Apartments at all costs, the majority of the landowners are just trying to make a living and willing to work with you. Ron Osbourne and Linda Partlo are two landlords I know personally who are very good at their jobs and with their tenants. Having spent the last 5 years as a student of CMU I don’t think it is fair for you to make it out to be such a desperate and depressing place to incoming freshman.
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I am not sure if the Michigan Department of Corrections would appreciate being represented so negatively.
The police are a reasonable bunch as long as the student acts respectfully. The businesses like Max & Emily’s or the Market on Main are always friendly to students (it would be a pretty dumb business practice to do the opposite.) And as to the landlords and landowners, as long as you avoid United Apartments at all costs, the majority of the landowners are just trying to make a living and willing to work with you. Ron Osbourne and Linda Partlo are two landlords I know personally who are very good at their jobs and with their tenants. Having spent the last 5 years as a student of CMU I don’t think it is fair for you to make it out to be such a desperate and depressing place to incoming freshman.