3 Reasons Your Landlord Doesn’t Like You
The landlord/tenant relationship is one that can benefit both parties if nurtured properly. If your landlord trusts you, he or she is likely to provide faster and more comprehensive service, and try to encourage you to stay in the rental for an extended period of time. Good tenants can be hard to find, and a loving…
Holiday DIY College Apartment Decorations!
Today is December 1st, so that means its time to start decorating for the holidays and studying for finals! At least you get to spend plenty of time with friends and family after those dreadful finals. One of the best ways to bring the holiday spirit into off campus housing is by decorating the inside…
Weekly Roundup of Student Housing News
Here’s what’s happening in student housing… Austin, Texas—ACC Earns Two Awards from National Association of Home Builders American Campus Communities brought home two awards at this year’s annual National Association of Home Builders ceremony: Best Student Housing Apartment Community and Best Mixed-use Community. The two awards were conferred upon ACC’s Chestnut Hill. Nashville, Tenn.—UTC Breaks Ground on…
UniversityParent’s “Best for Parents” Off to Strong Start
This month, UniversityParent launched an innovative new tool that allows companies to demonstrate their commitment to the crucial but unnamed stakeholders in student housing: parents. The idea for the tool was born to UniversityParent’s founder and CEO Sarah Schupp about a year ago at the InterFace Student Housing Conference in Austin, Texas. “I was leading…
8 Posters for Your College Apartment to Make You Seem Cool
At some point in college you’re going to host a party – it’s basically a given. Depending on the size of that party, the likelihood of you being able to talk with everyone there can be slim. So what if that future someone is there and you never even get to say him to the…
Quick and Easy Thanksgiving Decorations
Do you find yourself all of a sudden hosting Thanksgiving for you and some of your fellow friends? Somehow that always tends to happen in college. Some of your friends are snowed in, had their flights cancelled, or simply just couldn’t afford to make it home. Whatever the issue is though, you find yourself with…
Guest Crises: How to Host in an Already Packed Apartment
Although you might love the idea of your cousin or your best friend from back home coming to see you at your apartment, as the day approaches you have second thoughts. With your apartment already packed with your roommates and all of their stuff, you could be wondering how to host in an already packed apartment.…
College Apartment Game Room 101 – Foosball
There are a lot of games offered by college apartments can seem common. Everyone has played them from time to time, but how many of the participants actually know the rules? Do the rules matter when it comes to pastime games? Some may argue know, but why not take this free entertainment as a learning…
5 Reasons Luxury Student Housing WON’T Spoil Your Child
Luxury student housing is a trend that unique to the millennial generation. It’s a growing, $5 billion industry that’s part of the overall reshaping of the way students attend college in general. Now, college is all a social and developmental process—not just something that is done to get a job. While the price tag on…
GMH Builds Steam in Return to Student Housing
One of the first companies to forge the student housing frontier is making steady strides toward a new horizon. GMH Capital Partners was the largest student housing owner in the nation before selling its entire portfolio to American Campus Communities in 2008 for $1.4 billion. Prior to exiting the market, GMH had more than 60,000 student beds in…
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