Ah, house hunting struggles. Every student has to do it. Your time in first year accommodation is running out and you really don\u2019t want to be homeless for second and third year. What most students don\u2019t realise is just how difficult the house hunt is, and what things to watch out for. From someone who has been through it all before, let the hunt commence!<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve all been there \u2013 desperately agreed to see a house, fallen in love with it, and then realised it is far too long away from campus to make the rent worth your while. That\u2019s the price you have to pay for compromise. The closer to university you get, it\u2019s probably the case the house will get more expensive and less nice, because proximity pays. This is one of the worst house hunting struggles.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve worked it out with the people you\u2019re living with and feel satisfied with your maximum budget. Only, when you actually look online, you realise your maximum spends will only get you a dingy, tiny house so far away from university your friends will have to take an Uber to visit you. Maybe time to call Mum and Dad?<\/p>\n
So you\u2019re living with two other people, and that has proved difficult already. The few houses you have viewed have had two lovely, bright bedrooms, and one bedroom that can only be described as an upstairs version of Harry Potter\u2019s cupboard. And you\u2019ll definitely be the one who ends up with the cupboard.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m 90% sure agencies exist to scam unwitting students who don\u2019t understand legal terminology out of their money each month. Do not trust them \u2013 they are ruthless and will charge you for breathing in the same place as them. Don\u2019t be afraid to ask for a breakdown of costs when they send you a bill!<\/p>\n
I think this is more of a Southern university thing, but my friends and I couldn\u2019t find a single house where bills and WIFI were included, leading to extra budgeting most people don\u2019t account for. This is still one of the saddest things about student houses.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s face it, landlords don\u2019t care about how nice the place looks as long as it\u2019s deemed clean enough by agency standards, so I\u2019m afraid you\u2019re stuck with that horrid brown sofa that brings the whole room down.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve signed the contract, called your parents, taken photos of everything inside the house, and now it\u2019s moving in day. What you didn\u2019t quite think about is how you\u2019re actually going to pay rent after all of the fees you\u2019ve been charged. Shit.<\/p>\n
You can either pay one hundred pounds less and walk half an hour to campus, or you can bite the bullet and cry a little over your lost money each month. Student life is truly wonderful.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re talking with the agency when suddenly they produce a loooong document that they ask you to sign. They offer you a pen and expect you to sign immediately. Do not do this! Say you will be taking the contract home, read it over thoroughly, ask a parent for help if they\u2019re good at that sort of thing, and then\u00a0<\/em>sign if you\u2019re happy. Don\u2019t sign something that will bite you in the arse later on!<\/p>\n We\u2019re not all messy party animals, okay? Also, it\u2019s so unfair that student houses always hike up the price in comparison to nicer places that are definitely cheaper and better-presented. Nothing like a cheeky bit of student discrimination to help with the house hunt. We hate house hunting struggles like this.<\/p>\n Ah, house hunting struggles. Every student has to do it. Your time in first year accommodation is running out and you really don\u2019t want to be homeless for second and third year. What most students don\u2019t realise is just how difficult the house hunt is, and what things to watch out for. From someone who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24719,"featured_media":134954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1804,1793],"tags":[8262,9487,8590,7921],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-134953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flats-houses","category-uni-life","tag-flats","tag-house-hunting","tag-student","tag-uni-life"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n10. Not Being Allowed To View A Property Just Because You\u2019re A Student<\/h2>\n
Try not to let the house hunting struggles get you down! Tell us about yours in the comments!<\/h5>\n
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