
College life is an exciting time for students – it’s the best years in every person’s life. It’s probably your first chance to live independent of your parents. You will meet a lot of interesting and exciting people and experience many new things.
While in college, you have the choice to stay on-campus or off-campus. Dorm rooms are notoriously small and besides being cramped, sharing a room with a roommate deprives one of privacy. It’s common for students to change their residences during their college years. Whether they’re newly enrolled in college or vacating the dorms, moving into off-campus apartment offers real living space with conducive environment for college students. Apartments usually come with a real kitchen, private bedroom, living room and storage. As an apartment unit has more space and rooms, the cost of rental can be shared with roommates.
When moving to an off-campus apartment, every student will have unique experiences. One student’s move may involve hiring a moving company to transport a truckload of furniture cross-country. Another student may just walk down the road from the dorms to the new apartment. No matter the circumstances of the move, the same checklist applies. We have here a simple checklist on what needs to be done when prepping for a student’s move into an off-campus apartment.
- Gather moving supplies.
- Pack your belongings.
- Budgeting for your move and set an off-campus budget for monthly expenses.
- List down the apartment necessities and shop for them, example for room, bathroom, living room and kitchen.
- Hire a move, if necessary.
Moving from the dorm into an off-campus apartment or moving from home to an off-campus apartment is overwhelming and stressful for new students (and their parents too!) but it doesn’t have to be. When you hire a professional mover from Shiply to service your child’s dorm-to-apartment or home-to-offcampus move, you can leave the stress to the professionals. You won’t have to worry about your baby lugging belongings up flights of steps and risk injuring herself or breaking down furniture. Shiply’s panel of college movers and dorm room movers have that covered!
Just hop over to Shiply to request for free quotes from a wide range of movers to compare prices and choose the one that best meets your requirements and budget.
Shiply’s professional movers’ rates are always affordable and you’ll find budget-friendly moving services to fit the needs of any college student whether they’re moving a few miles away to their new freshman dorm or apartment, moving out of state to their new college or university or simply moving across campus from freshman housing to sophomore housing. Shiply’s moving quotes are reflective of what they will charge and does not include any hidden fees. What they quote is what you’ll pay, plus their goal is complete customer satisfaction.
The decision to exchange the routine, familiar and care-free on-campus stay for a more independent off-campus life should only be made after careful consideration. Consider all the important factors, and the pros and cons before taking the relatively risky plunge yet hugely rewarding step of living off-campus.