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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thoroughly believe it's artificial panic created by the big landlords in the big college towns (who do not give two s**ts about kids "finding their people").

They advertise how they'll run out! and get on waiting lists now!! don't get left behind!! It trickles to all the landlords big and small. Freshmen think they HAVE to lock something in.

It gets everyone revved up in October, and in a full-blown panic by November/December. Then.... you realize A) stuff is still available and B) people who have already signed have changed plans and are now trying to sub-lease it out. I pulled up my daughter's landlord's website (a big landlord) to get her floorplan drawing in July. I had the thought of checking availability and wouldn't ya know, they had stuff still to rent, despite all their prior advertising to the contrary. Not every building, not every configuration of bed/bath, but there were spaces available to rent in July! I'm sure the other landlords big and small were the same.[/quote]

+1 and there are sooo many subleases available in May and June and even August where with a little patience and willingness to live with an unknown student, kids can find a sweet deal. [/quote]

And how is waiting and then having to live with strangers better than renting in the fall with hopefully people who they know?[/quote]

Because most people don’t make new lasting friends or find their tribe in the first semester. Even people who roomed with their BFF freshman year find they are no longer BFFs by the end of the second semester. Living with people you know doesn’t guarantee no roommates from hell![/quote]

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