March 2021

  • Is Student Housing Your Target Rental Market? - Part 1
    March 29, 2021
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    When entering the rental market, finding your target demographic is a crucial step to ensuring success. Student housing is an extremely lucrative and fast-growing component of the rental industry. But how do landlords know whether students would be the best demographic for their rental property?Students tend to look for specific criteria in a...

  • Students: The Importance of a Good Credit Score
    March 22, 2021
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    A credit score is a statistical number, determined by a person’s credit history, that predicts how financially trustworthy the person will be with credit in the future. A good credit score is important because lenders use it to determine whether they want to loan money to a person. Landlords and property managers also use it to pre-screen...

  • FAQ's by Students Using Places4Students.com - Part 2
    March 15, 2021
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    As a follow-up to the first blog we shared last month, below are the final five Top 10 FAQ’s we receive from students about off-campus housing near their college or university.I am trying to create a student sublet listing but the creation page won’t load for me, why?This is probably because a school-issued email address wasn’t...

  • The Best Cities to Invest in Student Housing in Canada - 2020 Edition
    March 08, 2021
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    2020 has been an unprecedented year that has impacted the entire housing industry in Canada. Places4students.com has reviewed how these changes have affected the off-campus housing market and completed our annual comparison of the top Canadian cities to invest in student housing. Although vacancy rates have increased slightly across the country,...

  • The Best Cities to Invest in Student Housing in the USA - 2020 Edition
    March 01, 2021
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    2020 has been an unprecedented year that has impacted the rental market across the United States. The off-campus housing market has been affected by dropping rental vacancy rates and changes to on-campus housing availability, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite all, Places4Students.com outlines below this year’s recommendation of cities...