<p>My son recently accepted an internship in Nashville starting in January and ending in May. If anyone is familiar with the Nashville area, he could use some guidance as to which areas to avoid & which areas are more desirable (while not breaking the budget). If you have any info. about specific apartment complexes, that would be great, too.</p>
<p>Send me a PM with a little more info such as where his job will be. I can probably find some info for you.</p>
<p>There is a site called [Apartment</a> Ratings :: The leading source of apartment reviews by renters for renters.](<a href=“http://www.apartmentratings.com%5DApartment”>http://www.apartmentratings.com) which has postings from the happy and the disgruntled - far more from the latter, so take it with a grain of salt. Not all of these people are perfect tenants! Even if he has a car, he may want to look along the bus routes to save some money.</p>
<p>D lived at The Grove with a sorority sister who had a vacant room one summer. It was a very nice gated complex with a pool. It’s in the West End area.</p>
<p>Depending on where the location for the internship is, you might consider checking to see if Vanderbilt has any type of off-campus website for students. You might be able to find some type of sublet that a student needs to rent or garage apt for temporary housing. We did this in helping our student find housing for this past summer in another large city. We checked the local college website and found many students needing to sublet. Given that your student is looking for a different time of year may not offer quite as many options, but, nonetheless it is worth a try. Also, we watched craigslist–but were very careful. We also asked a lot of questions of friends, etc. that had connections in the city that could help with better neighborhoods to consider as we were concerned with safety, first-cost, second. Hope this helps and that your student can find a suitable location. Good Luck!</p>
<p>Vanderbilt students are required to live on campus all four years for the most part. Some exceptions are made when housing isn’t available for all students, but their housing office isn’t likely to have a website as suggested above.</p>
<p>No Vandy students live off-campus? Spouse attended Vandy and lived off-campus! This was just a suggestion, by the way–many colleges offer a website for students desiring to live off-campus. Sorry if I jumped the gun with regard to this suggestion.</p>
<p><a href=“https://apphost1a.its.vanderbilt.edu/housing/Main/[/url]”>https://apphost1a.its.vanderbilt.edu/housing/Main/</a></p>
<p>FYI–2VU0609 Check the above website–this is what I was referring to w/regards to off campus housing! And, while you may need a login/password to access this site, there are numerous other sites that one may google that can give similar info w/regards to off-campus housing–temp housing, sublets.</p>
<p>Hope this helps TNmom–I was only trying to be resourceful for you based on our experience in another city.</p>
<p>ND Al, sorry to have ruffled your feathers. I was just commenting based on current Vanderbilt policy (at least since 2002). Very few students are released to live off campus each year. Vanderbilt has just built a new complex for freshman called The Commons (a friend with a freshman daughter there who is her 4th child through college calls it The Ritz-Carlton for freshman). I hadn’t really given thought to the fact that there might be resources in place for grad and professional students. Again, sorry to have offended you.</p>
<p>Vandy students ARE required to live on-campus all 4 years. There are a few ways around this, but basically, Vandy is on-campus for undergrads. There are plenty of grad students (including law, medical) off-campus in the area.</p>