It is best to ensure you are up to the challenge before embarking down a particular path.Den Mother/Superintendent:  Our rooming house caters to International Students - we rent furnished rooms on month-to-month basis  {we do offer a term lease (academic year) or annual lease as well}.  

It seems a little academic to respond at this point as there have been some great reasons, I think, to avoid making the change to so many accounts.  

Losses all around.This isn't some academic exercise or dream sequence in a movie; these are real dollars at stake. 

All of the schools on the Gwinnett side of stone mountain are in very rough shape academically speaking.  

Upper classmen got the following email:"Dear Andrew,As a result of a projected increase in the demand for on-campus housing during the upcoming academic year, seniors (students who have completed 90 or more units) may reside off campus during the fall 2019 and spring 2020 semesters, regardless of the amount of institutional financial aid that has been awarded.If it is your desire to live off campus during the 2019-2020 academic year, please notify the Office of Residence Life and Housing Services (email:calbaptist.edu, phone: #) of your intent to do so.

For anyone who has a rental near a university, www.sabbaticalhomes.com is an excellent platform for extended stays during the academic year.

When renting a house to a group (3 - 5) students, we have antidotally noted that an annual (or academic year) lease helps the group hold their social cohesion  - sure they still may not like one another after Xmas, but one (or three) of them are less likely to bolt before the end of the lease.  

Those with imposter syndrome are often well accomplished; they may hold high office or have numerous academic degrees.

Pursuing one's PhD is an eight-year tour of college campuses, most usually followed by a career teaching within those soft confines.Get these academics out for a couple years in the real, non-theoretical world working as roofers or plumbers or waitresses and they will quickly grasp the true value of actually 'earning' a livelihood.

The concensus so far is that I should write more toward something like Brandon suggested where I can devise a model to forecast future growth and the current state of our real estate market since they want something more academic/statistical/econometric.