<p>Northeastmom, it’s true…my D feels very lucky and we are happy about this arrangement. When she wanted an off campus apartment, we were fine with it but said we’d only pay what we paid to live in the dorm. I have to cough at the “only”…please know that NYU dorms are VERY expensive and her housing costs way more than double my other D’s housing. Normally, she’d also have to furnish an apartment, not that I could have afforded furniture and would have had to scrounge to come up with a few things and hoped a roomie would too and same with kitchen stuff, etc. In this case, she has gorgeous furniture, an amazing kitchen, even her own personal bathroom. When we went to move her in, the handyman kept helping to unload everything and bring it to her unit. Even on our last visit he did that with stuff we brought her. Between that and the doorman, we were waited on hand and foot and my husband was like, “just like the dorms, right?” LOL It is quite nice and she knows it and knows she likely won’t have an apartment like this any time soon after she graduates. She also didn’t have to sign a year’s lease like she normally would have to do and only had to agreed to pay rent the months we needed it, like a dorm would be. It is true that cable, internet and maid are extras I did not have before and I would have offered less for the rent to include these had I known as I only wanted to spend what the dorm would have cost which is already a lot and I already have to borrow money to pay. But when this came up, we just went along with it even though it is extra because in the end, she has quite the deal and all her friends see that too (they all rented apartments in the city). </p>
<p>So, now one of my kids has a maid, my husband has a lawn service and a snowplow service, and what do I have? The short end of the stick. Doesn’t it always go that way for moms? :D</p>