Apartments open for summer and fall

     Students looking for spring subleases and fall apartments will not have to look too hard. The Grove, Magnolia Park and College Station are determined to be helpful in the quest to find the perfect place to live.
     Alex Carson, the community assistant and leasing agent at The Grove, said that The Grove is near capacity for fall apartments.
     “We are currently doing our leasing process,” Carson said. “We are still taking applications, but we’re almost full.”
     The Grove will be helping students looking to sublease their apartments by making a list of residents who have other engagements this summer. Although there is no guarantee to find a sublease, people looking to sublet can then go to the leasing office and choose from there, Carson said.
     Alissa Isom, leasing manager for Magnolia Park, said there are still apartments available for rent in the fall.
     “We still have a few two, three and four bedrooms left,” Isom said. “But we are about to run out of two bedrooms. They will probably be gone before spring break.”
     Magnolia Park is also offering a list of students who would like to sublet in its leasing office, as well, Isom said.
     Trey Rowley, new property manager for College Station, said there are currently many apartments to choose from.
     “We still have many units available in the fall,” Rowley said. “We also allow subleasing.”
     College Station has not started a list of students wishing to sublet, but it would be more than willing to do that. If someone would like to sublet their apartment, he should go by the leasing office and let it know, Rowley said.
     Although actually going to the apartment complex’s leasing office and being put on a list is one option, Facebook has turned into quite the real estate trader. The Facebook marketplace allows students to post many items, including housing.
     As of March 10, there were pages of students who had posted apartments for subleases and people who were trying rent out their apartments before their contracts were finished. Many apartments at The Grove, Magnolia Park and College station are listed, as well as others.
     The process for listing an apartment on Facebook seems just as simple as going to the leasing office. Students can go to the marketplace, click on “add a new listing,” choose “housing” and then “sublets.” Then, they just have to fill out the description.
     By looking at the number of postings, the Facebook marketplace seems to get many students’ attentions, and people looking for apartments would not have to actually go down to the leasing office of the complex.

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