Apartment furnishings?

<p>I'm looking to move into an apartment either summer or fall, and I need some advice...
1-what exactly is provided in the average apartment in West Campus (not looking anywhere else)
2-what are the typical expenses that i'd look at (parking, rent, utilities, food, etc..)
3-lastly any recommendations?
Any advice would be very useful, thanks in advance!</p>

<p>Appliances are provided. Furniture is not. One of the highest rent places also offers an overpriced “furniture package” if money is not an issue. Post if you want me to figure out which one it is; I have this in an old email somewhere.</p>

<p>If you and your future roommates do not want to pull together furnishings and equip a kitchen, the coop “apartments” like Nueces (collegehouses) are furnished - this could work if you are interested in living in a coop but having your own kitchen/not eating in the coop kitchen. I think these are all four-bedroom though.</p>

<p>You might add “internet access” to your “parking/rent/utilities/food” list of expenses.</p>

<p>thank you for the reply, I am actually trying to convince my mother to allow me to live in my fraternity’s house because its much more convenient to my classes, and i’d be living with my friends. my mom is convinced that places provide furniture, and that since my fraternity housing doesn’t, paying for furniture will make it more expensive, so if you could get me the cost of a furniture package that would be great. thank you.</p>

<p>Near campus, the apartments called Villas on Guadalupe offer a furniture package, but I can’t find the price. (It doesn’t show up on their web site.)</p>

<p>This thread reminded me that someone posted a while ago that apartments around Texas A&M are often furnished and apartments around UT aren’t.</p>