Murph, where your kid going to live? Not enough dorm rooms down there. RAs are going to have double up and single rooms will have 2 to a room. Reading that they are offering $2k and 100 meal passes to get people to opt out of the dorms.
Our timing is a bit off - my sister in law is selling her house. If Liam were definitely going to UIUC I'd buy it from her.
I suspect Freshmen will be prioritized to get a dorm slot the first year. If he didn't end up in a Fraternity, we'd probably buy something....
Which - that's becoming a big problem down there. People buy a house for their kid - great idea, the kid has a place to live and they get a little income from the roommates. Maybe they have multiple kids and it is used for several years.
Then when the kids are done, they don't feel like being slumlords. The house has appreciated in value, but isn't a primary residence so selling has a tax hit. Champaign is cheap enough and hey football and basketball games are cool - let's just keep the house on campus as a pied a terre. On a campus with a housing shortage.
Though I can't quite figure out how there is a housing shortage with all those giant ass apartment buildings. Then again, they probably don't match the budget I had - we were boxed in 7 people in the house at 36 E Chalmers. While it was recently remodeled when we got it, the remodel was the definition of "basic, functional" I look at the promo ads on the sides of these buildings like "The Hub" and it looks like a high end condo for Facebookers living in Palo Alto. OK, not Palo Alto, they won't allow such things, but downtown Sunnyvale maybe.
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