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Decorating Tips: How to Make Your Student Apartment Feel Like Home

July 21, 2015

Your favorite boy band poster from seventh grade. Mom’s cooking. Showering without flip flops. These are just some of thing you will miss about home when you leave and head into student housing. Your school schedule, friends and classmates, and, in some cases, the city or town, will all be new and unfamiliar to you as you…

Five Roommate Types You Will Meet in College

July 18, 2015

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Part of being a college student is learning to live with roommates. Even if you shared a room with a sibling at home, it’s nothing compared to living with people you barely know. You can’t run to your parents when they make you mad, or threaten to beat them up, or… actually beat them up.…

Getting the Most out of Your Living Room

July 14, 2015

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One of the most difficult aspects of creating a great living space is deciding how to get the most out of your living room. After all, if you’re a student living in an off-campus apartment with a roommate, you’re probably dealing with disorganization, because you don’t feel like you have enough time. In other cases, your roommates possibly…

How to Have a Positive Roommate Experience

July 11, 2015

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The conventional wisdom about college roommates is “The best friends you make are those you make in college.” It’s partly true. You do make friends after college too and those friends you made in high school — well, some of them will continue to be your friends. However, in college, you have the chance to make…

4 Tips for Finding Off-Campus Apartments

June 24, 2015

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Whether you’re a freshman that is new to campus, but are looking to live in an off-campus apartment or you have lived in the dorms during your freshman year and are ready to move off campus this year, finding a college apartment which fits your needs can be stressful. Here are four tips designed to assist you in…

Choosing the Best College Housing Option for you

June 19, 2015

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Figuring out the best college housing choice can be a difficult process for a college student. Usually, when students think about college housing, they think about the location, while this is an important factor in the decision making process, the first thing students should do is decide what type of housing situation will be the…

Three Benefits of Living in Off-Campus College Apartments

June 15, 2015

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Living in a dorm provides a convenience factor, but other than the excellent location, off-campus college apartments are the best way to enjoy college living. Here are three reasons moving off campus is the best living environment for college students Socialization. The socialization aspect of living off campus can work for hermits and social butterflies alike. If…

Student Housing: Things You Didn’t Need in a Dorm Room

June 14, 2015

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Choosing off-campus student housing is a crucial step for a college student. Now, it’s time to do the hard part: figuring out what you need in off-campus housing that you never needed in the dorms. While the exact list of things you need will vary depending on the size and style of apartment you select, here…

Moving Day: Three Essential Tasks That Should Be Completed

June 12, 2015

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Moving day can be a stressful experience for college students who are not properly prepared to move in. Students have a lot on their minds, so making sure they take care of a few essential tasks before moving in, will help them adjust when moving day does arrive. Essential Tasks Take care of deposits and utilities…

Picking the Perfect Roommate

May 31, 2015

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Figuring out who you were going to live with in a dorm as a freshman was easy. Student housing at your college took care of it for you. However, now that you’re considering moving off campus, deciding on a roommate is a much tougher decision and a much more important one. Without a resident adviser to…

Student Housing: 5 Reasons to Live Off Campus

May 26, 2015

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One of the biggest decisions college students will make is where they’re going to live. Unfortunately, so many students are overwhelmed by the idea of finding somewhere to live that they immediately jump into on-campus housing, without realizing the ease of finding off-campus apartments. In an effort to help some frazzled students make a decision…

Six Tips for Move-in Day

May 22, 2015

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You’ve found the best student housing in your college town. You’ve driven your parents nuts for weeks as you talked about your excitement about move-in day. Now, it’s time to move in and you want the process to go as smoothly as possible. Here are six tips that will help your move go smoothly: No. 1. Move-in day starts…