<p>What are the best off-campus apartments; by off campus I mean not in the dormitories; I’ve heard Blackstone and Riverside are pretty good. By best I mean all factors with a stress on price, furnished would be nice…</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Paul</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of Blackstone and Riverside is shady as hell.</p>
<p>What’s your price range? West Campus is around $600 average right now, and will get lower as the summer goes on, but it ain’t cheap.</p>
<p>Blackstone is also a little questionable. It’s on Medical Arts (the street that Robert Dedman turns into on the other side of Dean Keaton) next to the east co-op. The front door of all the units I’ve seen opens up directly into the kitchen.</p>
<p>What would the dorms on-campus come out to per month? I’ve heard that they are really over-priced but is it still considerably cheaper than a typical apartment? I know nothing about apartments.</p>
<p>Dorms are overpriced. I had a private bathroom (shared with 4 ppl) in kinsolvng and the payments were around $1270.</p>
<p>Dorms cost more than an apartment by a long shot.</p>
<p>You essentially get 8 months with your rent. One quarter of August, September, October, November, three-quarters of December, half of January, February, March, April, and half of May. For a community bathroom, you pay $7500. If you take out the fact that you get $1500 in food, you are paying $6000 for 8 months. That means a payment of $750 a month for half a bathroom without a bathroom. You’re essentially paying $1500 a month per bedroom. If you add in the $500 it costs additionally for a private bathroom, it costs $813 a month or $1625 per bedroom.</p>
<p>San Jac and Duren cost roughly $8000 after you take out the food, so roughly $1000 a month, $2000 a month per bedroom.</p>
<p>The private dorms are even more expensive.</p>
<p>Any of those payments would get you your own bedroom and bathroom in West Campus, that you wouldn’t have to share, plus use of a living room and kitchen, plus the amenities of an apartment complex.</p>
<p>What exactly are the incentives to living on campus? I would much rather have my own apartment, but my parents have told me it would be much more expensive to live on an apartment especially with the cost of utilities and what not. Are they just misinformed?</p>
<p>I can’t think of any incentives. Uh…more freshmen? And…security? I guess if you have a good RA there’s less trouble or whatever since there are stricter rules like people can’t blast music like in an apartment. But that’s only if your RA does anything. Can’t say location for all of them or costs or the lame meal plan. </p>
<p>Depends on where you live and how much of the utilities you have to pay and how many people live there.</p>
<p>My friend pays $45 a month for utilities.
Mine is $0.</p>
<p>Loneranger, your numbers work under the assumption that a student is going to live in an apartment year round. Don’t you find that most students go home for Christmast break? And at least a couple of months during the summer as well, unless you’re doing summer school? What about the cost of furniture/lamps/kitchenware? And groceries/cleaning stuff (vacuum, broom/mop)? I point all of this out because I, too, remember outfitting my first apartment. Finally, the ease of rolling out of bed and walking to class is the best deal of all, unless you want to pay for transportation. That’s just my opinion, though.</p>
<p>If you live in an apartment, you should grocery shop, cook meals, keep your kitchen clean, vacuum, dust, and mop the kitchen and living room in addition to your dorm room. You need to come up with a bed, and (between you and your roommates) a kitchen table, chairs, a sofa, enough furniture to make the apartment nice. In the dorms, you can spend freshman year letting someone else take care of this, so you can get involved in extracurricular activities and (especially) spend time on your schoolwork. In the dorm, there is always someone to go eat with and often someone who has taken or is taking the class your are taking. I think dorms are great for freshmen. Nice for making friends and all of the on-campus club meetings, sports, music, and theater events are right there, so you are more likely to take advantage of them.</p>
<p>A somehow realted question:
What is the difference between apartments and condos?</p>
<p>I saw on another site that some people are finding roommates to live in the Orange Tree Condo in West Campus. It is furnished and would be $600/month with all utilities included. Isn’t that too cheap for West Campus? Anybody lived there before?</p>
<p>Condos are owned by individuals and not the complex owner, essentially a middleman.</p>
<p>giivings, if you aren’t going to live in Austin over the summer you’d be retarted not to sublease your apartment to someone else, which you can’t do in a dorm. The only time you don’t live in the apartment is over Christmas break, and unlike a dorm, where you CAN’T come and go over Christmas, you can whenever you want at your apartment.</p>
<p>And essentially most of my furnishings in my apartment are coming from my bedroom at home, so it’s no real expense in addition.</p>
<p>So, is it okay with these Austin apartment complexes for the tenants to sublease their apartments? Because most rental agreements do NOT allow for that.</p>
<p>anyone have specific names of apartment places my price range is 500-600 with a roomate so toal 1000-1200 or a bit more depending on the location. I’m going to orientation Mon. and looking to get a good idea where I want to live since I wont be getting a Dorm there. Anyone got a top three for a places to live thatll split from 500-600 per person?</p>
<p>-Thanks</p>
<p>Paul</p>
<p>Do people clean your dorms for you? I was told by several UT students who lived in dorms and they said that there was a cleaning staff that came by and cleaned your dorm for you.</p>
<p>You clean your own room.</p>
<p>Some of the private dorms do clean the rooms for you. I know Towers does. I saw online that Dobie does as well. Can’t speak for the rest.</p>
<p>People do not clean your dorm room at on-campus dorms, but they do clean the hallways and public restrooms and take out the trash.</p>
<p>Many private dorms offer weekly maid service, but it depends on the location.</p>
<p>Apartments usually will only have a trash chute to get rid of your trash and all other cleaning is up to you.</p>
<p>bump anyone more suggestions so far west campus/riverside</p>
<p>If you are looking between 500-600 for even all utilities paid Riverside/Oltorf is your best bet. Yeah, it’s a shady area but Riverside has a good 4-5 apartment complexes next to each other that mainly compose of students anyway. They also have really good deals, there are bus stops that will take you straight to campus (10 minute ish commute time). West Campus only really has good deals in the summer, or right up until school starts (which can be a bit risky I think) - other than that I think they cost just as much as the dorms. Since West Campus prices range from 700-1000 normally, without cost of food included, and some without utilities/internet - living in the on-campus dorm would be similar in cost.</p>