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New Student Information

• The Graduate School maintains resources for incoming students, including the New Student Survival Guide.

Housing recommendations made by current and former graduate students:

• I live about 15 minutes from school - but the drive is always traffic free. I live in Indigo apartments on Page Road. They have apartments and 2 bedroom townhouses.  I live in a townhouse and rent is around $800. The apartments start at $550 I think. I can have pets in my townhouse and I assume it is the same for apartments. There is a nice big pool and a workout room. I like the place a lot.
• My wife and I lived in the Summit at Avent Ferry apartments last year. Price: ~$700 for spacious 1 bedroom apartment.
  
  Pros: Not many undergraduates around -i.e. no noise. Very near lake Johnson, with wonderful walk/bike/blade path around the lake. They accept pets, for small fee when you move in. Prompt repairs and generaly good quality of the building.
  
  Cons: The nearest wolfpack stop is 1 mile away. You can use public bus, but it would be pain if we did not have car. They had some restriction about undergraduates (not strict though).
  
  Overall, we liked it, and we would not change them if we had not bought a house.
  
  
• I'm staying at King Village. I'm paying $460 for a one-bedroom apartment. The apartments are a little shabby but it is a good place to stay if you have children - there is greenery, paygrounds, activities for kids, and many wonderful experienced women willing to babysit at a very affordable rate. There is a waiting list for the apartments, and you can sign up online, but I strongly suggest coming in person and enquiring about any apartments available immediately. We were 50th on the list until we stopped by, and signed the lease within a week! I guess the waiting list system is not properly managed, because despite all these people waiting, it seems like a lot of apartments are empty. King Village is located on Gorman street between Jackson and Ligon (which is between Western and Hillsborough). There are no pets allowed. The place is generally quiet. There is a computer lab (a great convenience for us), study rooms and a laundry facility. It is serviced by several Wolfline routes.
  
  
• My neighborhood is not far from the fairgrounds but not on the wolfline. Its quadruplexes, that is, 4 apartments in a house. Each apartment has 2 bedrooms and 1.5 baths, along with a fireplace. They aren't the newest apartments in the world but they are fairly nice. Its a nice, quiet neighborhood, rather than a 'complex', which I like. Its a dead end street, which minimizes on traffic, which I like. We even have little yards. The pets thing varies. When I first moved in, my lease said no pets. I've had a cat for 5 years. The management company has seen my cat and never said anything. My rent has only gone up once in the 6 years I've lived here. The apartments vary in price, as each 'house' is owned by different people, usually handled by a property management company. There are two apartments available in my 'house' through Capital Properties at $595 each. Another nice thing about my apartment is that I did not have to renew my lease after the first year. I just have to give a months notice when I'm planning on moving out. There are other property management companies who also manage houses on this street, including Rhein Associates. Pindell-Wilson is another property management company in the area that often has apartments for rent.
  
  You might also suggest to the incoming graduate students that they take a look at the News and Observer on the web. When I first moved here, that's how I found a place to live. There is a link to real estate ads at http://www.news-observer.com/ .
  
  I hope this helps. I remember what a hassle it was to find a place to live here while I was in California. If the grad students are like I was and unable to fly here to look at places, you might suggest that they do what I did, which was to answer a 'roommate wanted' ad with a limited lease. I lived with someone for 3 months when I first moved here. It gave me time to find someplace nice, rather than making a long term decision without enough information. Also, check http://www.apartments.com


• My apartment building is on Hillsborough Street about four blocks west of campus (3116 Hillsborough St.). There may be other apartments available in the building. I'm renting through Cameron Property management. Their website is http://www.cameronpm.com. I hope this helps.
  
  
• I like the place I live now. It is across Glenwood (off of North Hills) from Crabtree Valley Mall.
  
  Polo Run Apartments
  1915 Generation Drive
  Raleigh, NC 27612
  (866) 212-1377
  
  

  Beds	Baths	Starting Rent	Sq. Ft.	Deposit	Floor Plan
  1	1	$590	590	$200	The Preakness Numerous Closets
  1	1	$580	665	$200	The Del Mar; Very spacious
  2	1.5	$690	1149	$200	The Steelchase Townhome
  2	1.5	$730	1168	$200	The Derby Separate Dining Room
  3	2.5	$820	1376	$200	The Belmont Townhome

  
  Of course they have move in specials, so my rent is really a lot cheaper than this.
  
  I have lived in 2 other houses since I moved to Raleigh.
  
  Bhola Gupta is a slum lord.  Vince Defreitas is nice and good about fixing things, but will keep you deposit for silly things.
  
  
• St. regis is a rip off unless you pay $600 for 2 bd or $400 for 1.
  
  
• Landmark Apt. 10 min from campus on Lake Boone Trail  Good place to stay – Basic 2 bed  $600/mo.  Pool  Quiet – Close to Park and Ride lot and buses.
  
  
• I live in Meredith Village Apartments, 10-15 minutes from campus on Lake Boone and Dixie Trails. The rooms are pretty large; the complex recently had a renovation which gave us new, more attractive windows & doors onto the patios & balconies. A 2-bedroom 2-bathroom apartment costs around  $600 a month. Includes water; the fee for gas is $10-15 a month extra.  Kitchen has a gas oven & range, refrigerator, and dishwasher. DSL and RoadRunner are now available but you will have to talk to the phone or cable companies about that. :-) They have lowered our rent two years in a row now due to the housing market. CAT Route 4 runs right by both parking lots. Supermarket, drug store, restaurants across the street.  Rex Hospital and several medical centers are a short walk away. Crabtree Valley Mall a 5-minute drive through back roads, and one could actually walk there (no parking problems during Christmas rush!) Pool. Quiet.  Lots of families, very few undergraduates (if any).