2008 Woodie Awards
Locked into leases
It's too early to pick next year's housing
By: Caitlin Foyt
Issue date: 11/14/07 Section: Lifeline
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Already there is talk of where people will live next fall.
Friends start talking about next year's housing arrangements and an ever so slight feeling of panic begins to set in.
The market pressures students. People start to feel as though they are going to miss out if they don't make arrangements quickly enough.
Last year, it was decided that my roommate and I wanted to live in West Campus Village because of its close proximity to campus and because the apartments were new.
Before we even had a chance to inquire, the townhouses were filled.
Soon, United Apartment's other brand new complex began quickly to fill up. Many of the townhouses weren't even built yet, but people signed their name on the leases anyway.
It became apparent that if we really wanted to be living in our apartment of choice, we were going to have to make a move.
We jumped at the opportunity to sign a lease the first chance we got and decided to figure out the details of who the remaining roommates would be later on.
Looking back, it seems obnoxious to be so picky.
A lease does not need to be signed in November. There still is plenty of time to find a decent place to live for next fall.
Even if it isn't a brand new apartment with a walk in closet, there still are a ton of places to live in Mount Pleasant.
Maybe it's because college life continually keeps people on the move and for that reason, the apartment usually is pretty vacant, but for some reason, the place still has not yet become home.
Everything is disturbingly white and sparkling clean - sometimes it feels more like a dentist office than a place to sleep. And the walls (cough) are dangerously thin.
A Mount Pleasant house probably would have been a better choice rather than living stashed away somewhere in a line of faceless identical townhomes.
This time around, it probably will be best to bite the bullet through November and figure everything out later - January perhaps.
lifeline@cm-life.com
Friends start talking about next year's housing arrangements and an ever so slight feeling of panic begins to set in.
The market pressures students. People start to feel as though they are going to miss out if they don't make arrangements quickly enough.
Last year, it was decided that my roommate and I wanted to live in West Campus Village because of its close proximity to campus and because the apartments were new.
Before we even had a chance to inquire, the townhouses were filled.
Soon, United Apartment's other brand new complex began quickly to fill up. Many of the townhouses weren't even built yet, but people signed their name on the leases anyway.
It became apparent that if we really wanted to be living in our apartment of choice, we were going to have to make a move.
We jumped at the opportunity to sign a lease the first chance we got and decided to figure out the details of who the remaining roommates would be later on.
Looking back, it seems obnoxious to be so picky.
A lease does not need to be signed in November. There still is plenty of time to find a decent place to live for next fall.
Even if it isn't a brand new apartment with a walk in closet, there still are a ton of places to live in Mount Pleasant.
Maybe it's because college life continually keeps people on the move and for that reason, the apartment usually is pretty vacant, but for some reason, the place still has not yet become home.
Everything is disturbingly white and sparkling clean - sometimes it feels more like a dentist office than a place to sleep. And the walls (cough) are dangerously thin.
A Mount Pleasant house probably would have been a better choice rather than living stashed away somewhere in a line of faceless identical townhomes.
This time around, it probably will be best to bite the bullet through November and figure everything out later - January perhaps.
lifeline@cm-life.com
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