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Is this a good rent rate?
kleinfehn
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Sup PA, I am possibly living on my college campus during the summer and I am not sure if this rent is a good deal or not. I would get a dorm room to myself and it would be $270 a month flat, including internet, utilities, electricity, and we would have a kitchen on the floor. Would be in a small college town in Minnesota, and there are some apartments around the area I will be checking out. Thoughts?
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(I was also in a small Minnesota college town.)
Note to people: this is for the summer. The regular school rates are prob much higher, they sure were for me back in the day.
$270 for a single room anywhere is ridiculously cheap.
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No, it's called training for real life, as we all have to learn to live with each other. Not to mention the fact that he gets a room to himself in the summer.
The rent sounds cheap, but I do not live or go to school in Minnesota.
I did this one summer at my college, was super-fun and played a lot of ping-pong on the dorm table. You'll likely have the run of the campus with your new-found summer crew. Also a lot more relaxed than normal dorm life, as no one really cares what happens in the summer (all the regular staff are on vaca or just enjoying the nicer weather).
What? No. It won't.
It's about the great social experience, too. People will have lighter class loads so there'll be more fun stuff going on, etc.
And "shitler" is a really good way to describe what happened with strange frequency in my old dorms.
Also HOLY FUCK that seems cheap to me. I've probably just been living in LA for too long, but when I had my own bedroom by USC and was paying ~$800 a month I thought that I had a pretty banging deal.
I absolutely hated dorm life. So just really make sure you want to do it.
And yeah that's a good rate for a shared place like that.
That was certainly my experience. They actually shut down the men's restroom on our floor because so many people were shitting and/or vomiting outside the toilets.
But, for $270 a month including utilities, I'd do it again.
That's cheap as shit. What college is this? Hobo U?
It ends up being around 600$ a month at SCSU, which is outrageous compared to normal appt prices, and some crazy shit like 8k a semester at U of M.
but they're listening to every word I say
I had an apartment in a town a bit south of Richmond, Va which has a cost of living very similar to average midwest cities. I was paying $240/month for a 1 bedroom apartment with water/sewer included. I had to pay for electricity. This was in a declining area that had not yet gotten violent but had a bit of a drug problem, multiple tenants booted out for dealing crack, etc. A college dorm does not likely have that issue. When I went to University of Iowa I do not remember what the dorm rates were, but I'm fairly sure they were a good bit higher than that 12 years ago.
Yeah, typically you only see that in the bigger/freshman dorms, as there's little accountability. We had a random shitler freshman year, but that was about it.
In an undergraduate dorm? Yeah, it'll happen. Not like, every weekend, but from time to time.
270 including utilities is pretty cheap. Unless the space is really tiny or deficient in some other way, I'd jump on it.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
As to people doing odd stuff with shit, I never had that happen in my time in college, or anything like it (in the dorms at least). The only issues we ever had were people who couldn't cook and would set off fire alarms, and the fact that there were no individual thermostats in the rooms.
I actually worked at work on Saturday. Also I went out on a date with a real life girl.
Can you like, permanently break the forums?