Hi, Getting my first student housing ready for next academic year and wanted to hear the experience of other who rent to students.Main question is renting By Room vs.

My niece is a say at home mom academic systems designer (masters in math & comp sci) for a company out of DC.

In general, elementary/high schools are at a lower level academically compared to NE.

The academic literature is pretty clear that AH increases the value of neighborhoods, or at bare minimum has no effect.In fact, there are some developers that build the affordable housing first, then build the for profit housing later.New AH is almost always similar in quality to market rate rentals, which is a function of how grants and LIHTC submissions function.As a result it can be an effective way to redevelop a neighborhood and force it into transitional status.

I most recently talked to an academic adviser at the University, and he relayed that a recent survey they sent out to future students revealed that they are expecting around a 45% drop for on campus students this year.

I suspect you will need to offer a significant discount in order to find anyone who is willing to live in a summer time location for 6 months between Oct - Apr.On the other hand...I live in a college town and rent the apartment on the first floor of my two-family home by the semester during the academic portion of the year and as a vacation rental between Jun - Aug.

Here's an academic article done by UC Berkeley that explains the impact 2008 had on California and how long it took to get back to pre-recession levels.

Idealy, I would only live there for a year before buying another one and doing it again and again and again.My current situation is that I live in a college town where, college student or not, the leases operate on an academic schedule (august to july) and most people are signing leases in march and april for the following academic year.

In addition to the academic experience, it is an initiation for many components of adult  life. 

Nearly all academic institutions have gone online and therefore students who had signed one year leases have returned home and want out of their leases.