Everyone will have to search for housing at some point in their life but for most JMU students this process begins after only a few weeks of living in a dorm your freshman year of college. The thought of signing a lease this early into the school year with friends that you have only known since coming to JMU can be very exciting and scary at the same time. there is such high demand for off campus housing that they tend to fill up very fast and early in the school year. Most students at JMU will only live in a dorm their freshman year and then move into apartments for the rest of their college experience. This is a helpful guide for students looking for housing including my own experience signing a lease, whether living off campus is cheaper than living on campus, and what your options are for living off campus.
My Own Experience:
My search for housing began only six weeks after I had packed my entire life up and moved from New Hampshire to JMU. Thankfully my sister is currently a senior here at JMU so she knew how important it was to sign a lease quickly because of how fast the housing complexes fill up. According to the Best College Rankings from US News and World Report, 13 percent of the students live in college owned, operated or affiliated housing and 87 percent of students live off campus at James Madison University (“James Madison…”). Since so many students live off campus, my friends and I decided that we were not going to live in the dorms again next year so we
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As many of you are becoming the age when Ohio University allows you to live off-campus, I wanted to give a few tips for what you should keep in mind when looking for a place to live Athens. Houses/apartments go fast and force you to sign a lease within the first few weeks of the Fall Semester. Being someone who signed a house with three girls, whom I have known since freshman year, I thought it would be no problem, since I have already lived with them. I am not a person to confront someone when an issue comes up, but instead let it roll over. Don’t let that happen; speak about what you want out from each individual so things are clear before signing a lease to live with them for the next year. Know your rights when it comes to being tenants,
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I think this topic would be interesting because of how many problems we ran into throughout the entire process and because I could incorporate some tips of how to get into the housing complex that you want. I could do some research on how other schools manage student housing and what percentage of students move off campus after their freshman year. Another possible research method would be to interview students that live on and off campus to see why they chose to stay or leave JMU housing. I really want to incorporate a map of Harrisonburg to show where the complexes are located and I could also use surveys and pictures in my
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