Houses - and houses (Accommodation in general)

Name: arnold

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Product:	Accommodation in general
Date:	11/07/00 (47 review reads)
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Advantages: Book early to avoid disappointment

Disadvantages: Pay dearly if you don't

There may be an abundance of houses available as student accommodation in Brighton, and the cost per person may not vary significantly, though all are considered expensive for what you get.
At the top end of the range you can get a tidy one bedroomed flat for £450 - £500 per month (£225 - £250 each if you share) and at the bottom end you can be ripped off for about the same money and have to live in a semi derelict hovel where the landlord wants cash every month and is not prepared to improve less than adequate conditions or facilities.
The accommodation office are as helpful as they can be , but with the number of students in Brighton, despite the availability of housing, these less scrupulous landlords know that they will let their properties eventually because the demand is always there.
Complaints to Environmental Health may get some occasional relief but the beaurocracy that goes with it is very time consuming as well as unnecessary.
The best advice is to have a mobile phone and some transport available and be at the accommodation office early when the lists are published.
You are then at least some where near the front of thr queue with some chance of a choice. If you leave it too late the choice will be Hobsons' and the cosequences very disappointing.

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