The two options I'm considering at this point are 1) start saving for a down payment for an apartment/condo which I will live in for two years (during grad school) and rent thereafter (to students near university) - and 2) don't buy now, rent during graduate school instead, and just put most savings away in traditional retirement saving vehicles.The time horizon for saving a down payment is 12-months.If more information is needed please let me know.

Good rail, highways, harbors, navigable rivers, air service, multiple world class universities, hospitals, shopping, farming, artisan manufacturing, theater, indoor and outdoor recreational opportunities can be found throughout one of the smallest states in the nation.

And they are building a new university less than a mile away which will only increase rentals.

That being said I'm 19 and a second year college student studying medicine at Colgate University so thats where I am when I am away from my home in Hamburg, NY.

The coming elections will also have a major impact which is yet to be seen.For now at least, maybe best to stay on course, but ease up a little so you can be nimble if the situation calls for it.One of the "universal constants" is change, ironically.David J Dachtera

I am considering adding a clause such as "upon formal graduation from xxx University, this lease may be terminated early at the end of the month in which you graduate".  

The universe of loans is much to large for that.  

We are home to the University of Alabama at Birmingham and its teaching hospital, as well as the headquarters for a number of financial and insurance companies, such as Regions Financial (a Fortune 500 company) and ProAssurance.

Still, after years at the university and seeing that new issues are almost always unnecessary, I'd still skip it.

I graduated with a finance degree in real estate economics from 4-year university in 2014.