House Hunting

Because almost all of my rotations are located in Providence, I am pressed with the necessity of relocating. I'll be honest, I've never really had to search for a place myself before. I've been spoiled with living on campus and having friends ask me to live with them before. With my ex-roommates moving to other places, I am now on my own to find a place to live. After some research and asking around, I found out that craigslist is a common search tool for college students/graduate students/young professionals looking for a place to live. My situation is complicated since I'm looking for a lease that starts in September, but won't last a year. Most places look for possible future tenants that will be signing a year lease. Not only that, I will not be in the area or in the country during July, which is when most places that have leases starting in September begin to show up. To make matters worse, I won't be back in the area to take a tour of these places when I get back to the states in August. This leaves me with the only option of searching for a September lease right now. Combine this with my current rotations schedule (8-4 Mon-Fri), my summer class schedule (6pm-9:45pm Mon-Thurs), and my work schedule (9-2 Sunday), and you have a very very tight space to find a place to live in for the coming academic year. Regardless of this tight schedule, I'm trying my best to make do with what time I have. So far I've actually been able to find a few places that seem like livable places to me. As with most people, I'm pretty picky with choosing where I live. This includes price, cleanliness of the interior, and location among other factors. I've only been able to see the inside of one place so far, but I do have appointments in the next few days to see other places. Hopefully I'll find a place that just blows my mind away. Hopefully I'll find someone who will be willing to accept me as soon as I make it known that I'd like to sign the lease. I don't want to be left with a bunch of places visited, but none actually accepting me as a new leaser. All I can say is, wish me luck.