Find a place to live

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Find a place to live

• FACSS, Summer 2009

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Finding a place to live

• Right after arrival
• Option1 Host Family (Usually 1 week)
• Fill in the welcome form and send it back to us
  at facss_at_umn.edu
• Option 2 Try to find a place to stay until you
  could find a place to stay for the next year, and
  you could find the methods in next several slices.

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Finding a place to live

• Temporary
• (Where to live until
  September?)
• Option 1 UMN offer temporary (-Aug 30th) to
  new students
• Central AC, 20/personnight
• http//www.isss.umn.edu/new/temphousing.html

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--- Finding a place to live

• Option 2 sublease.
• Short term usually one month or two
• Where to start looking?
• Facss BBS http//www.facssumn.com/forum/default.a
  sp?C1
• Option 3 Start your lease at Aug. 1st.
• Some landlords do this. Call to find out.

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--- Finding a place to live

• Permanent
• 1. Neighborhoods
• 2. Price range
• How to find a room/roommate.

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• West Bank not recommended unless you have
  to, except for corners and grand marks. You can
  live in East Bank and take the connector/bike to
  West Bank conveniently.
• East Bank
• Stadium Village (close)
• Dinkytown (close)
• Como (No.3 bus)
• Marcy Holmes (No.2 bus)
• Prospect Park (No. 16 bus)

• St. Paul
• St. Anthony Park (close, Connector to East/West
  Bank)
• Larpenter/Lauderdale (No.3 bus)

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--- Finding a place to live

• Price range
• Level I gt600 Off campus, apartment buildings
  services and facilities, in door garages, good
  security.
• Dinkytown
• 1301 University
• Bierman Place Apartments
• Elmwood Properties
• Marcy Park Apartments

• Stadium Village
• Melrose Apartments
• University Commons
• University Village-West

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--- Finding a place to live

• Level II 550-650On campus Resident Halls
• (pros close to campus, good security
• cons expensive)

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--- Finding a place to live

• Level III 400-500 Off Campus Small
  Apartments OK services and facilities.
• https//rentals.tc.umn.edu/
• http//www.tc.umn.edu/facss/offcampus/living.ht
  m

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--- Finding a place to live

• Level IV 350-450 economic apartments
  provided by the university certain requirements,
  long reservation time, cheap. But they are not
  easy to apply.
• Chateau (Dinkytown, UMN student only)
• 612-331-3911http//www.chateau.c
  oop/
• CTC (St. Anthony Park, married couples
  favored)
• [phone]
  http//www.umnctc.org/
• CSCC (married couple only unless sublease)
• 612.378.2434
  http//www1.umn.edu/cscc/

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• Level V 250-350
• 1. Houses 2-4 roommates or even more watch
  for for rent signs along the roads. Worse
  conditions, worse security than apartments.
• 2. Somebody. Living in the living rooms May
  be inconvenient, especially the cooking smell.

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--- Finding a place to live

• How to find one of these rooms?
• 1. call or visit the website of big apartment
  buildings
• http//www.tc.umn.edu/facss/offcampus/liv
  ing.htm
• 2. walk/bike around the area of interest look
  for for rent Signs
• How to find a roommate
• I prefer to live with Chinese students/scholars
• http//www.facssumn.com/forum/default.asp?C1
• I prefer to live with any UMN students
• https//rentals.tc.umn.edu/