Private accommodation in general Reviews

I have been renting the same house with some friends for a little over 18 months and my contract runs out in the summer. This is just going to give you some tips and hints which express my opinions and views on renting private student accommodation and can maybe help some students looking for their first house-share. ...  Read the complete review

Private accommodation as a student is an absolute minefield. To start with (usually) you have a very minimal budget and this attracts landlords who sometimes take advantage. I have rented as a student in the Bristol area and it's ok as long as you know what you are letting yourself in for but quite often the accommodation is not of the ...  Read the complete review

After my on-campus accommodation at the University of Essex expired, I had to move out into private accommodation, electing to move into a 6-person house in the quaint village of Wivenhoe right next to the University. We were let the house by Colchester-based estage agent East Anglian Properties, and although mostly it was fine, they did ...  Read the complete review

In general at University and especially in Huddersfield stay away from renting through agencies. There are a lot of these in Huddersfield and it is easy to fall into the trap of going with this so called easy options. As it is though you are better off renting through a University approved private landlord. Letting agents receive a fee ...  Read the complete review

My experience of private accomodation has been mixed. I live in a student area and thus crime is high. I have been burguled and it was very upsetting, Im therefore always winging on about security. One thing to bear in mind when you are deciding who to live with is can you trust them to shut the door if they are drunk and coming in ...  Read the complete review

Moving to University is exciting in itself - in Halls of Residence you have a secure home, lots of fun and, most importantly, no parents!!! But come the second year when most students move into rented accommodation elsewhere in their university town problems begin to surface. I can't complain. Two of my housemates ...  Read the complete review

That was the state of house when we got back after the summer holidays. Outside the back door the drains had blocked flooding the area, causing the area to be flooded in runny s**t. mmmm lovely. But that wasn?t the only thing; the pressure on the boiler had also become dangerously high so we had to turn it off, so we had no heat ...  Read the complete review

Well well well, I bet you didn't see that one coming, home? From Where I am standing or sitting rather you smell like I feel grreeeat. Right, so you are a student, a very happy student in the country, when private renting, you should consider the following my recent flock of deranged and insane recent opinions, however I am ...  Read the complete review

How To Avoid Some Of the Pitfalls When Renting As A Student… Having spent far too much of my adult life living in student accommodation & shared houses with wannabe students I thought there must be something useful I can pass on to all you students out there embarking on their first tentative steps into the unknown. ...  Read the complete review

In my 1st year at university i lived in halls, like the majority of students do. However, there is a limit to the kind of things you can do here (throw parties for example and make noise!) Therefore, i had decided to move into private accommodation in my second year. I have just completed my second year at university and had ...  Read the complete review

During my first year I lived in digs with 3 other students in Majendie Road, SE18. We were all thrown in together by our accommodation services office. Yep we were those students who for some reason did not, yet should have ended up in the halls. However my year in these digs was most fowl and bizarre. Our ...  Read the complete review

You're more likely to die here than live.... Anyone who has ever been a student will probably have made the all time big mistake of moving into a shite house. The first house I ever moved into was a kip, not to mention a death-trap. When we first went round to see it, we didn’t really look at it properly at all. ...  Read the complete review

At university, most people live in halls for the first year, then go on to rent private accommodation for the next two to three years. Depending on the area in which you are studying, much student digs are in good condition, with affordable rent and decent landlords, but in other areas, more so closer to London, in my experience and ...  Read the complete review

Finding a student house, is one of those hurdles designed to make maximum discord with all your mates. If you don't fall out over who get the lovely attic room and who gets the box room you can wait for rows over phone bills and washing up! Sheffield, as the university love to say, does have a surplus of student ...  Read the complete review

Nearly all students live in a house at some time during their studies, but many are ripped off, or taken advantage of, by unscrupulous landlords. Rents vary greatly throughout the country, but they also vary to a surprisingly large degree within a student area. Not all variation is purely monetary, as different agencies employ ...  Read the complete review

Apart from Halls, most Leicester student move out into houses in the 2nd year. Welford Road, Clarandon Park, Evington, Narborough Rd are all well equipped for the student population. Houses are relatively cheap in comparison to halls and you have the comforts of your own little place. Most are 4 bedrooms, some more and all are relatively ...  Read the complete review

OK, picture this... You are a burgular. You know every student has at stereo, some CDs, possibly a TV and video and more than likely a PC/laptop. You also know that they go home for holidays, Christmas, Easter. Its very obvious when you are not in. No lights, loud music, kebab/vomit on the pavement outside. ...  Read the complete review

I've been living in quite a ropey house now for about 8 months, and I'm just thankful that we took certain measures to get it this good! Firstly, when you visit your house take a really good look around - look for mould or damp - if there's anything that looks really serious make sure you add it into the contract. For ...  Read the complete review

Beware of renting one of those “nice old houses” when you are a student in particular. If you do not have an extremely attentive landlord/ estate manager, you will be in for a hard slog getting them to fix the multitude of problems that inevitably come with living in an old house, and an old house that has been serially ...  Read the complete review