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New York University has long attracted students with its excellent location in the center Greenwich Village. However, as numerous disappointed freshmen will attest, more and more of their housing and even classrooms are located in different areas of the city. The university recently even started housing students on the other side of the river in Brooklyn. Add to this NYU’s student housing in Chinatown, and the picture of the urbane school in Bob Dylan’s old stomping grounds becomes more and more removed from the reality of a dispersed, city-wide campus.

As NYU expands its student housing into Brooklyn and other areas of New York City, and other major New York City universities like Columbia continue to expand, more and more students are yearning to live off campus.

Though university dormitories and apartments are often subsidized, offering students significant discounts on relatively central living spaces, universities often expect college students to live in dorms and apartments that can only be described as meeting a sub-adult standard of housing. College students, naturally, take this treatment only grudgingly.

Often, student apartments do not include a kitchen or even kitchenette, leaving students at the mercy of repetitive dining hall food from cafeterias that are only open limited hours each day. Furthermore, most student housing is only available nine of the twelve months of the year, making the arduous task of moving a biannual event, even for the occasional unlucky hyper-busy graduate student.

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Are you a FSBO Seller?

I suppose that the greatest reason of selling your own home is saving the commission that you would pay. However, there is the other side of this coin. What is involved in selling by “owner?”

You will need to market and advertise your property, show it to prospective buyers. Deal with possible unscrupulous individuals. Deal with all the paperwork, and then handle the closing. For some of you this might be a daunting task, and for others, it is a challenge.

If you are gregarious and a lot of us are. Will you be happy to talk to all of the people who might inquire about your home. Are they a serious buyer. As a seller there is no real pressure in talking to the buyer, you are in control. If you are the kind of individual who shies away from social contact, then perhaps you might be better off using the services of a professional.

Do you like paper work? Most of us have better things to do. Remember most of the paper work is technical, if this is not something that you can handle, and then you should hire an agent or an attorney.

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