<p>Shameless bump! ;)</p>
<p>what is the problem? look in craig’slist and respond asap, and check with the universities for extra dorm space.</p>
<p>look in MD if DC is too costly. I’d hurry up as school has started and places are getting snatched up. </p>
<p>I’ve done the craiglist rental from 2000 miles away. I was faxed a contract and had photos of a furnished apt. It was very professional and easy. Yes, you need to give money before you see it, but get references.</p>
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Uh… well, this is a parent’s discussion board, where we share tips and ideas and strategies and experiences and brainstorm ideas and enjoy kvetching about our kids, our knees, our lives, our kid’s job prospects, and everything else under the sun. If you don’t like it, please don’t respond. Thank you!</p>
<p>look in craig’slist and respond asap, and check with the universities for extra dorm space.</p>
<p>look in MD if DC is too costly. I’d hurry up as school has started and places are getting snatched up. </p>
<p>I’ve done the craiglist rental from 2000 miles away. I was faxed a contract and had photos of a furnished apt. It was very professional and easy. Yes, you need to give money before you see it, but get references. </p>
<p>No problem!</p>
<p>mazal tov anxiousmom!</p>
<p>Son here for the week, he lives very cheap in DC. He lives in house with three other guys in a not great, but not awful part of town. They pay about 2200 a month for the house. He says his friends who are moving up into nicer parts of town, nicer places are paying 2,400 to 3,000 for a three bedroom place. </p>
<p>His advice for traveling cheap in DC is to get a bike – he goes all over on his bike and he says he can get almost anywhere faster on the bike than the metro, and definetly faster than by car.</p>
<p>If I were your D, I would not rent a place sight unseen in DC. It is hard to judge the safety of the neighborhood, ease of commute, etc. that way. Unless she takes a short sublet (a few months) while scoping out the area for someplace longer term. D1 lived there last spring and over the summer (in a sublet over the summer). One tip, your D will be very uncomfortable in the summer if she takes an apartment without air conditioning (and the cheaper ones often don’t have it).</p>
<p>Agree with the poster who said the bus may make more sense than the metro sometimes. D1 took the bus most of the time this summer (there was a shuttle to the metro from where she lived, but she didn’t mind a walk, and it was about half the cost of the metro ticket).</p>