Tag: Dormitory
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“If you build it…” …creating a Property Management company from scratch.
For the past 5 months I’ve been building a (non-affiliated) Student Housing Property Management company from scratch in Orlando, FL serving UCF and Full Sail students. Going forward I’ll be using this space to relate some of the challenges and solutions we come across in that pursuit. I guess you need a few details to…
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What you need to know before signing your lease!
Congratulations! You’re an adult! Crazy, right? You get to vote; buy tobacco (though you really shouldn’t), and play the lottery (really, don’t – keep your money). Oh yeah, you also get to make legally binding agreements. Hurray! There are a handful of basic things you should know and look for before you (and your roommates?)…
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RoommateFit, LLC offers “eharmony for roommates?” Hipsters & Cowboys cheer?
eHarmony for College Dorms? Justin Mares today announced his new roommate matching software “RoommateFit” which he’s pitching to college campuses to aid in their dorm room assignments. The University of Pittsburgh Business student’s system will ask 42 questions, covering 6 distinct traits, in order to better match like-minded students with one another. I recall talking…
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USF Allows Transgender Student Housing. Will Apartments Follow?
University of South Florida in Tampa announced last week that (for purposes of dorm placement – roommate matching) they’d allow transgender students to indicate themselves as such – as opposed to having to select between male/female while they may be transitioning from one to the other. Regardless of you how you may personally feel about…
Robert H Myers 