LECOM Housing Crisis

[flightmedic]

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Help,

Going to LECOM this fall and due to family situations I will not be able to fly out and look for housing.....can anyone help me with this dilemma???

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Male 28 looking for privacy. Current Flight Medic from the Rocky Mountains.

Any advice from current LECOM student would be helpful, thanks for your time in advance.

Marty

 

[moonshallow]

I am a 2nd yr. @ lecom & from erie. There is an erie apt. rental guide; but having talked to incoming 1st yrs., most of the complexes are filled.

There are many apt.'s NOT listed in that guide. What I plan on doing is posting a list by tomorrow of other apt. complexes & scanning (& posting) apt. ads from the newspaper (both furnished & unfurnished), so keep checking this board.

 

[giant ug machi]

You might be able to find an apartment if you go to the website goerie.com and look under the classifieds. I found my apartment there and I really like it. It's "downtown" but seriously the city is small and it takes me 15 min door to door. I could also give you my landlord's name & number as he is involved in an official apartment board kind of thing and if he doesn't have a place for you, he might know someone who does....
words of advice: avoid the east side, basically anything with E. in the street name - also you could go on mapquest if you find something promising and make sure it's west of Peach st. and you should be OK

 

[stacyg]

A good website is www.aptassoc.com. A lot of the rentals have pictures with them which may be useful for those that can't get to Erie to check out places in person. Good luck!

 

[stomper627]

Whats the crisis? Ive seen at least 3+ posts from people that already have places to live and are looking for roommates (including me)....some of us are upper classpeople (MSIII) that are hanging around erie for rotations. Why not hook up with one of 'em?

 

[sddoc]

Another location suggestion... stay away from 18th Street, whether it's on the east or west side of Erie. We live on W 26th (near St. Vincent hospital), and that's pretty safe, but the houses are a bit old(circa 1912). I can usually get to school in 8 -10 minutes. Goerie.com is probably the best place to look.

Another idea(it's what my husband and I did) There are a lot of inexpensive duplexes in need of updating. We bought ours on CD with $2000 down and rent the upstairs apartment for $600/mo, which covers our house payment. By the time I graduate, we can sell the house, with some equity, and make a little money. In the meantime, we have lived rent free for 4 years. Just an idea. It's definitely more effective than clipping coupons and shopping at garage sales. Good luck.

 

[Heyyyyy]

Originally posted by sddoc
Another location suggestion... stay away from 18th Street, whether it's on the east or west side of Erie.

Giant ug machi wrote, "words of advice: avoid the east side, basically anything with E. in the street name"

May i ask why? Also, I have never been to Erie. I also keep hearing that granada apartments are not "safe". Can you guys please tell us why you think so?

 

[moonshallow]

the east side is NOT bad...I do NOT know what that person is talking about...I know many ppl. who live on the east side in my class...don't live in grenada...it's a craphole

 

[raspberry swirl]

yeah, don't bother with the rental guide. there's not much in there and everything that is i've checked out and they're all pretty much full. there are a bunch of other threads where housing stuff is discussed and where people are looking for roommates. i also would love it if someone from erie could post a list of names of other places not in the rental guide-- i have a 15 dollar deposit in at granada, which i wouldn't mind sacrificing . . . .

 

[raspberry swirl]

nevermind . . . im living in mill glenn! 😀 if you haven't found a place yet, you should check it out. its pretty decent-- quiet, cheap, close to lecom. the dude in charge was pretty nice and he said there were still a few aparments available. yay i'm not in granada! 😀

 

[niceguydoc]

hey raspberry swirl, can you give me the contact info for the mill glen apts, how much is the rent there? how about utilities? thanks a lot

 

[KylieP54]

Call me lucky, but I just found a really really nice apartment in Granada that I will be living in soon...they got to show me the actual apartment I'd have, it just got new carpeting installed a few days before I saw it, the walls are repainted, there's a nice balcony/deck to go onto....I thought everything in it was really nice. It even had a dishwasher for a one bedroom! Only 350$ a month, so I guess with Granada it's the luck of the draw. Good luck!

 

[raspberry swirl]

the deal with mill glenn is this-- its actually in with the granada apartments. at one point, they were all owned by the same person, but he or she sold a small chunk of them off back in the late 70s. so its sort of confusing. you feel like you're in granada. but they are considerably better kept than the granada ones. the rent ranges from 385-425, and i think its based on which floor you are on. i'm on the top floor and mine's 425. the rent includes everything but electric. it sounds more expensive than granada, but when you add that extra 500 dollars a year for garbage and sewer that granada charges and doesn't tell you about until later, then they end up being about the same. i didn't think granada was that awful, but i got a much better feeling at mill glenn. there's less apartments, its a little bit quieter becaues its off to the side on a dead end street, and the clientele seems better (i don't know if comparing the cars parked out front is an accurate assesment, but thats pretty much how i arrived at that conclusion). i got a bad feeling the minute i walked into the granada office-- it was a total craphole. if you can't even keep your office clean, up to date, and organized, what the heck does that say about the rental units? the mill glenn number is (814) 866 0216. good luck 🙂

 

[hippocrates2006]

Hi, I am a second year student at LECOM. Dont be fooled!!! There is no housing shortage. #1 DO NOT rent off the lecom apartment list or you will end up paying too much to live in a real dump. What I would recommend is to look for a small house in the areas surrounding the school. Dont look too close, but maybe within a 3-5 minute drive there are many small houses with yards and generally decent. They should not cost much more than 500 dollars a month. You will need to pay for utilities which will probable run about 150 a month. I would not recommend living anywhere on the east side because there are alot of problems over there like drugs and prostitution and occasionally they have a serial rapist show up here and there. If you have a wife coming here you want her to be safe. I would tell anyone female in the family to stay clear of the bar life around here also, that is usually where the scum try to pick off enubriated ladies. There are alot of important things you should know about life here and society at lecom that will keep you from being ripped off and generally will make life more livable through your first two years of HELL. I do mean that too. Many people become very very unhappy there first two years here. You will make it though if you get off to a good start and get good quality advice from someone with experience. Talk to alot of people about what to expect, and I think most will agree.