Summer -housing for internship in new city how?

[Anonymous]

Our upperclass student wants is applying to several summer internships in different cities. She will be making minimum wage or working for free as she is doing them to make her resume look better to apply to medical school. How do you pay for the short term living expenses. Most of the locations she has looked at will not short-term lease and the internship has no recommendations. AirBNB is over 100 a night for 3 months. I will also be keeping her real apartment at school and not sub-letting it because the apartment does not allow it. Any recommendations? I hate to rule out the internship but crazy expensive.

[Anonymous]

There is no magical answer. In this situation your DD would either find an internship near her current college or find one where you/she lives at home.

I don't know what these "free" medical school internships look like, but don't they exist at either of the locations above?

Any possibility of an apartment swap? Is your daughter's current college in a place where people from other colleges like to get summer internships? Maybe those two just swap?

[Anonymous]

I interned in NYC and stayed in an NYU dorm. It was nice because I also could have a meal plan there, which was convenient. Maybe look into local colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I interned in NYC and stayed in an NYU dorm. It was nice because I also could have a meal plan there, which was convenient. Maybe look into local colleges.

It's worth checking colleges.

Otherwise, it's very hard. In past years, my own company's interns have lived three to a studio. Not good.

[Anonymous]

College dorms or frats/sororities often work as a last resort. In Boston a lot of kids live in an MIT fraternity for the summer, or at least that was the case when I was a summer intern.

[Anonymous]

my DD found an apartment to rent for 3 months. they are out there, but not plentiful. find a sublet. extended stay hotel. ask the company if they can share the list of interns so they might find housing to share.

what city?

[Anonymous]

Find names of people who interned last year and ask them.

[Anonymous]

Roommates, second and third jobs to pay the bills.

This is really on your daughter to figure out.

Extended stay motel. Call the manager directly to get the best prices.

Airbnb room in someone’s house. Work out a deal directly to rent the room for three months in someone’s house.

[Anonymous]

You need to negotiate directly with the homeowner that rents a room out of their house. Get Airbnb out of the equation.
You should be able to get a room and someone’s house for 40 or $50 a night in a safe area

[Anonymous]

Couch surf

[Anonymous]

Camper in campsite

Check the campgrounds in the area, many have campers parked that they will rent by the day the week or the month

[Anonymous]

OP - Look at colleges in the area to see if there are places where students advertise for summer sublets. If there is a housing office, they might be able to direct DD to local websites and there is Craigslist to use, too. Also, she might find Care.com or Sitter.com and I think there are sites related to area universities in big cities where your daughter could offer so many hours of sitting in exchange for a room or a combo or paying and sitting so many hour.s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Roommates, second and third jobs to pay the bills.

This is really on your daughter to figure out.

Extended stay motel. Call the manager directly to get the best prices.

Airbnb room in someone’s house. Work out a deal directly to rent the room for three months in someone’s house.

This.

[Anonymous]

When DC interned in NYC last year I was surprised to learn that Craigslist is still much more of a thing there. They found a tiny but actually comfortable studio not far from Gramercy Park on a Hoboken budget. The internship was very long hours and I was glad not to have them commuting 45-1hour each way on top of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our upperclass student wants is applying to several summer internships in different cities. She will be making minimum wage or working for free as she is doing them to make her resume look better to apply to medical school. How do you pay for the short term living expenses. Most of the locations she has looked at will not short-term lease and the internship has no recommendations. AirBNB is over 100 a night for 3 months. I will also be keeping her real apartment at school and not sub-letting it because the apartment does not allow it. Any recommendations? I hate to rule out the internship but crazy expensive.

We were fill pay so unpaid or low paid internships requiring housing was not an option.