[OT] Ithaca questions

There's a decent chance I may be taking a job at Cornell (I should find out this afternoon or tomorrow), and I was wondering if you guys could help me out with some questions about finding a place to live, should I be offered the job.

How hard will it be to find an apartment/room in a house in Ithaca, and what can I expect it to run me? Any areas in particular that would be good/bad to look in?

you could spend anywhere from $350 all inclusive to big big $$$$. avoid collegetown, try Fall Creek area downtown or look into a house just out of town if you have reliable transport. there are thousands of rentals in ithaca, you should have no problem at all.

Most of the student housing is already spoken for. Student rentals typically happen before school ends. As already mentioned, there are a lot of downtown rentals. Both apartments and whole houses. Checkout the Ithaca Journal and Ithaca Times for current rentals. Good luck and welcome (back) to Ithaca.

Avoid collegetown? Don't listen to that douchebag, he has no idea what he's talking about. Collegetown is the best spot off campus in all of Ithaca.

Try Center Ithaca;s apartments

If you want to live in a hole and pay way too much, live in collegetown. My guess is that Ben having lived through 4 years in dartmouth student housing may want to live somewhere better. There plenty of quality cheap housing a few miles from campus.

well we never had a problem living in apartments run by kimball real estate. nice places, not horribly expensive. \

keep in mind that i have been told that ithaca is a pretty bad market for houses. that may be changing but i am not sure

Ithaca is a seller's market right now... at least that's what my boss told me yesterday.

If you're talking about buying, it has been a very hot seller's market for over a year, but things have recently slowed down. Still, prices are a lot higher than they were just 18-24 months ago.

Of course, that doesn't necessarily impact the rental market. Rents have been pushed up with the growth locally, but there has also been a lot of new apartments built outside the city and from what I can tell, that has helped keep rents from going too high. Don't know what you're looking for (# of BR's, baths, how close to CU you want to be, etc.), but, for example, there are a couple of relatively new complexes in Varna on Rte. 366 that cater to the grad student market. Friends of mine lived there for 8 months in 2002-03 and the place was convenient, reasonably sized, clean, quiet and not unreasonably priced according to them at the time (it was a three bedroom).

If you're not averse to moving again, you can check with CU about any available sabbatic houses. There might still be some available and those usually are good deals if you can meet the owner's standards to take care of the house for them.

There should be options depending on what you want. Also, though the student housing is pretty much spoken for now, things open up because people don't come back, leases are broken for better deals, etc. There may be some more inventory in the student housing category around August 1-15.

my thoughts exactly. thank you.
c-town is fun, especaly if you are 20, but i wouldnt want to live there again. over priced does not begin to tell the tale.

If you have a car its probably best to stay north of the city in Dryden/Lansing. Anything that avoids 13.

Check out:
[housing.cornell.edu]

Tom Tone

The effect of Cornell on housing prices probably falls off with the square of the distance from campus.

If you want to roll the dice, take a month to month rental and wait for the right place to show up. Somebody drops out, somebody moves on unexpectedly. a couple moves in together and needs two not one houses.

You won't be able (want to, at least) afford Collegetown and also not Cayuga Heights unless you, like the profs who do live there, have trust funds.

Remember to budget for four snow tires.

Those snow tires could be needed in August, the way the weather has been....

Not to pry, but will you be in Ithaca come hockey season?

[Q]David Harding Wrote:

Not to pry, but will you be in Ithaca come hockey season? [/q]

You mean the November-to-March-maybe-April Cornell hockey season, or the 365x24 eLynah season?