Don’t Rent! Buy!
Buying Student Housing is the Smart Choice
Even though spring has just arrived, now is the time for Raleigh college students to start making plans for where they’re going to live this fall. Buying makes so much more sense than renting in our hot real estate market. The condos and townhome communities that are popular with students at our local colleges and universities are selling fast and increasing in value each year.
Realtors Richard Callahan and Ron Parent share some of the many reasons why:
Our top reasons for buying vs. renting:
- Interest rates are low
- Rental rates are rising
- Rent rooms to your child’s friends to cover your mortgage payment
- Build a credit history if you put the property in your child’s name
- Build responsibility as a homeowner and act as a landlord
- Build equity
- Alternative to stock market investing
The James B. Hunt Library at N.C. State
The James B. Hunt Library on N.C. State’s Centennial Campus is winning awards right and left.  And after experiencing a guided tour of this amazing building, I see why it’s garnering so much wide-scale attention since opening in 2013.  Featuring a very cool, 2-million-volume capacity bookbot, quiet study areas, spaces for collaboration, fully-equipped music rooms, 3-D printers, a video game lab, and even a sustainable rain garden on a roof area, this beautiful library seems to have everything a 21st-century college student could possibly need or want. There are free mobile tour apps for Apple or Android.  Or better yet, experience it yourself and join a walk-in tour on Wednesdays at 9:30, Fridays at 3:30, and the second Saturday of each month at 10:30.
And then there are the chairs. Â Chairs? Â What’s special about the chairs? There are more than 80Â different styles of chairs at the Hunt Library. We tested out and photographed a sampling of them.
I love this video detailing the story of the Hunt Library: