Guide to Off-Campus Housing in Denver

Within Denver itself are several well-known institutions of higher education which attract students from around the country.� They include two campuses of the University of Colorado system (one of them being the medical school/health sciences campus), as well as the alma mater of the current Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, the University of Denver.

Nearby, in Boulder, is the main campus of the University of Colorado, with its student body numbering in the thousands.

A number of regional and local 4-year institutions, as well as community colleges, are located in and around the Denver metropolitan area.� Consequently, there is an appreciable demand for off-campus housing for college and university students

Students searching for housing should take advantage of craigslist� (www.craigslist.org) to find a suitable place to stay.� Denver has its own pages on craigslist.� Not only can students search housing ads on that site, they can place their own ads--free of charge--on the site, indicating their particular� housing preferences (i.e. apartment or house, location, amount of rent, etc.).

Currently, the housing market in the Denver area is in a slump.� For students, this presents golden opportunities, especially when it comes to renting a house.�� Ambitious students can canvass areas that appeal to them, taking note of houses with for sale signs in front of them.� Then, they should contact the owner(s) of a property, proposing either to rent the house, or to lease it with and option to buy it.

Desperate owners, who need funds to cover mortgage payments (especially on investment properties they're holding), just may be open to such a proposal.�� In short, students have everything to gain and nothing to lose.