Housing Bonanza Follow-Up

I have a few follow-up thoughts from my Housing Bonanza post. As I said my suitemates and I have been looking for apartments near campus. On Tuesday we toured an apartment complex on Vine Street that we really liked. It seemed like it was almost perfect –good price, water/sewage paid, laundry on the first floor, split bathroom, off street parking, partly furnished, 24 hour maintenance, and it was only one block from campus. Plus he landlord was super friendly. Before we left our tour of the apartment we checked to see how many units were still available on the third floor (the floor we wanted) and there were three. So we thought no problem. We really like this place, but it was only the second place we had seen so we wanted to look around more. We saw one later in the week that we hated so we decided to be proactive and have our parents read over the lease of the Vine Street apartment. My dad is a lawyer, and he thought the lease was very fair and reasonable.

Unfortunately I called on Friday to check how many units were left and there were none. We were crushed they had all sold. The moral of the story is if you like a place, it meets all your requirements, it has a good landlord, and it has a fair lease you should go for it! Don’t be too late like us because the good apartments are getting taken left and right.