The Search for Housing
Once students know what type of living experience they want, where they are going to look for it, and whether they will be living with anyone else, the next step is to start to look for advertisements for open apartments. This step will generally be the longest section of any housing search, and will be heavily dependent on the type of housing each student wants to find, the neighborhood they have chosen, and the price range they have set.
Generally, students have three major options for finding housing listings: large online listing systems (like Craig’s List), Property Management Firms (like BU’s Rental Property Management), and real estate agencies. This section of the OHR website delves into these different tools in greater detail.
Most students will use a combination of those different tools and try to put together a list of between 10 and 15 potential apartments to evaluate.
