Oh the off-campus housing in Tuscaloosa

In reading Sarah’s blog, I realized I hadn’t talked about my living quarters for next year and the struggle there was to arrive at it. Firstly, Sarah I hope you don’t think I’m stealing you idea but it was a good one. Ok, so me and a couple of friends decided to live together before Christmas. We were on the ball and ready to go. We started looking for places and found this perfect little townhouse complex off Hargrove Rd. We began filling out the paper work and getting parents to travel up to sign different forms. For starters, this takes forever and eight days and shouldn’t be as complicated as it ended up being. However, after about a month we all managed to get everything signed and in place.

While, we were slightly disorganized in gathering parents, the majority of this run around was caused by the lovely management at the place which covers a couple different housing places including capstone quarters and of course ours, which is the village at Brooke Meadows. The main problem was that they kept switching which person we were dealing with and therefore switching what could or could not be faxed, what we had signed and basically resulting in an all out mess.

Nevertheless, as I said, in the end everything was signed, well at least the important stuff, they recently informed us that there were in fact a couple more sheets but that we could sign them on moving day. I honestly believe however, that the run around and partial threatening of not having a place to live next year by a few of the employees was only because we were college students and had we been any other adults they would have treated us with a little more respect and been a little more organized. It makes me wonder if this was a result of dealing mostly with college students and becoming frustrated or just assuming that threatening was the only way to get anything done.