On Wednesday January 15th I went back to our old stomping ground to join the Director of Student Housing and the Campus Village Apartments manager to talk to Freshmen at Kettering University about moving out of the dorms. The freshmen were a great audience and there was a lot of information shared!

Here is the presentation from the RateMyStudentRental Team!

You can get more details from these blog posts too! Moving Off-Campus & Safety Tips.

Thanks Reagan for the plug & Thanks Debbie for the invite!  If anyone has any questions about the presentation or you want to talk about your student housing options do not hesitate to contact us!

So, here’s a little college advice. Don’t just assume that unknown person in your house or apartment is just one of your roommates’ friends. This university student did just that and found herself without a laptop the next day.

A 21-year-old Lehigh University student found an unknown man seated at her desk in the wee hours of Friday morning in an off-campus house she shares with other students…
It turns out no one at the house knew the young man, and police believe he stole a laptop computer and accessories from the home in the 300 block of East Fifth Street.

Now, I can tell you from experience, this probably happens more than you’d think. One of my roommates disappeared from an apartment party we were at one Friday night when we were Sophomores, and we didn’t see him again until the next day. Thinking he may have gotten lucky, we started hounding him for details. Turns out, he decided it was time for bed and left. He stumbled into our apartment and fell asleep on the couch. The only problem was, he was in the wrong section of the apartments, and it wasn’t our apartment. No one at the other apartment even said anything, because they all thought we was one of the other roommates’ friends.

So, next time you see someone you don’t recognize in your place, go ahead and ask them who they are. They won’t take offense.

The student housing market is ready for revolution. RateMyStudentRental’s School Partnership Program is official with a pilot program in the works with few universities (soon to be announced).