Looking for a student house to rent, Leeds: What should go on your checklist
Are you heading for university or college in the Leeds area? Is it concerning you that so many other students are also looking for a place to live?At the start of the academic year,it may be hard to find somewhere decent to live. What if only expensive flats or ones too far away are all that’s left? You are unlikely to see an announcement in the shop window saying ‘Student house to rent, Leeds’. Even if you did, it could well be a dingy bedsit in a back street.
The answer is to contact someone who knows the answers - people who can find you a suitable place, guide you through the process of getting a contract on a legitimate rental and provide all the answers to your questions to make sure that your new college life gets off to an enjoyable start.
You can help the process run smoothly by sitting down and applying yourself to some serious self-questioning. Your student house to rent in Leeds checklist should ideally include answers to the following questions:
• What areas of Leeds and its vicinity are suitable, with easy accessto college, shops, and a safe area?
• Take a trip and do some street questioning of students that are already there. Walk around the parts of town where students normally live, see what appeals and visualise living there. Is it noisy? Does it have a bus route to college? Could you cycle the route?
• Be sure you know what you are looking for. For example, would you prefer living in shared accommodation, which will be more sociable, or a more private dwelling, where you can really study without interruptions from your new friends?
• What costs you can and cannot afford, make sure you know your limits. Living on a small amount of money is part of student life, but living with not enough, is just miserable.
Once you have a clearer idea of what you want out of a student house to rent Leeds,contact SJM Properties, whose friendly and helpful staff will be able to work with you in finding a great place to start student life.
