College Student Apartment Hunting in Chicago

You’ve applied and been accepted to your college of choice. You’ve carefully planned your schedule which allows you to jump-start your college career as a full—time student. Yesterday, you received a call stating that your job interview went extremely well and you are expected to start as soon as possible, pending a drug screening. All the pieces are quickly falling into place and you are ecstatic about the freedom you will have, once the semester begins.

That’s when it hits you…Although you’ve successfully taken care of the bulk of everything you need to do to prepare for college; you realize that you still reside at home with your hippie parents and little brother who rummages through your panty drawer…planting his pet beetles and reading the romantic entries in your diary.

The horror forms a thickening wad of phlegm in your throat, as you imagine entertaining your college chums; while your mother parades around in her tie-dyed outfit with the matching headpiece singing Born to be Wild, while shaking her groove thang for your dad who perfects a simple gyrating motion... your brother shooting spitballs at the tops of your female friends’ bosom area. Before the image can cause you to vomit, you realize that you have got to get your own place…preferably one far enough for your family to question traveling there on a daily basis.

Studio, one bedroom or two? Roommate or no? On-campus or off? The questions are one monstrous enigma and you find yourself desperate for a solution. Scouring the ads, you wish you’d thought about this very important step earlier on. Phone call after phone call and you find yourself confused as to what your next step should be. Is there any solution to the horrible visions dancing in your head? Will you have to start your first semester at home with your bizarre family or will your string of good fortune continue…landing you in the ideal apartment?