<p>Aside from Craigslist, does any one have any suggestions on how to find a sublet in Boston June, July & August that is affordable? I know colleges and universities rent out their dorms but they are expensive and generally don't have kitchen facilities. Daughter has paid internship and now has started to look for place to stay.</p>
<p>She is not, by any chance, looking for a three-bedroom apartment, just a room? We are subletting our apartment.</p>
<p>Assuming that she is just looking for a room, though, I have actually had really good luck with craigslist. Another idea is if she has any friends from high school in the area. They might know someone who’s going home for a summer.</p>
<p>I would guess (and it is a guess) that a lot of the Boston colleges have ways for their students to publicize their apartments which they want to sublet … I’d suggest contacting a couple colleges to see if they can help … I’d suggest starting with BU.</p>
<p>agree with 3togo. . .my son who is a BU student will be looking to sublet his apartment next summer and will do so through school classifieds.</p>
<p>For just 3 months in a city, I sometimes encourage students to ask at the front office of a house of worship if they know, among their congregants, any working families or empty nesters who want to rent out one empty bedroom and let the student use their kitchen. </p>
<p>I’ve suggested it and never heard it happen. I’m sure students want to have more fun than that, but to me that’s AFFORDABLE.</p>
<p>I would suggest you check with the company she is working/interning for. HR may be willing to post an ad for her in the company classifieds (if they have them). My company hires summer interns every year and that is what a lot of the interns do.</p>
<p>My son found a summer sublet in Boston through his college message board. It was quite common for alums who were in graduate school in Boston to post availability. </p>
<p>As I recall a furnished room in a lovely old house in the Brookline/Longwood neighborhood went for around $700 a month. His roommates – who were all pretty girls! – were mostly involved in the medial schools/facilities nearby, but the commute to downtown Boston on the T was fine. </p>
<p>He had his own bedroom and shared living room, kitchen and bathroom. Nice neighborhood, good transportation, lots of students in the same situation. </p>
<p>When he needed to find a permanent place to live he went through Craig’s list, but that was for a long term lease.</p>
<p>Suffolk University right in Beacon Hill offers apt style housing for the summer for students and interns…but it’s become a bit pricey…and rooms are shared in the apt style option:</p>
<p><a href=“404 - Suffolk University”>http://www.suffolk.edu/files/Summer_Programs_PDF/summer_2010_intern_application.pdf</a></p>
<p>Should be lots of supply. Most leases run from Sept 1 through Aug 31 and a lot of students are away for the summer and need to sublet their apartments. Moving the entire city in and out of their apartments on Sept 1 is insane.</p>
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You’re not kidding … it seems that 50% of the small Uhaul trailers in the country are double parked in my neighborhood (I live near BU and BC) around Sept 1st.</p>
<p>Thanks eireann but she is on her own so just looking for the one room. If, however, you learn of two other girls who are looking for a third, that would be great!</p>
<p>3togo: Do you know if those message boards are restricted to BU students? I think I tried and needed to login to see them…</p>
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<p>Thanks for pointing that out Chedva. </p>
<p>Jilliebean–I sent you a pm; I assume we can exchange emails…</p>
<p>Several MIT fraternities offer summer housing for college students coming to Boston for the summer. These houses have tons of summer boarders, and many of their normal residents are gone, so it’s not like it would be one young woman surrounded by a bunch of fraternity guys.</p>
<p>[Interfraternity</a> Council at MIT](<a href=“http://ifc.mit.edu/summer.php]Interfraternity”>http://ifc.mit.edu/summer.php)</p>
<p>I (a female alum who was fairly familiar with the fraternity system) can even give you tips (privately) as to which ones I’d consider a good environment for a woman to board in, and which ones I wouldn’t.</p>
<p>If the fraternity thing still sounds too sketchy to you, most of MIT’s Independent Living Groups (student-run co-ops), which are co-ed except for one all-female one, also take summer boarders. These are very friendly environments, most with kitchens, and some have communal meals with home-cooking.</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Living Group Council General Information](<a href=“http://www.mit.edu/~lgc/info/]MIT”>http://www.mit.edu/~lgc/info/)</p>
<p>Feel free to PM me about either of these options. They both have the advantage of having lots of other people around to socialize with, and for many the price includes a nutritious food plan.</p>
<p>S1 was able to get a sublet in a graduate dorm at MIT last summer. Many folks go home for the summer and rent out their space for at/less than the contracted dorm rate. He was working for a prof on campus, but my understanding is that if one has an internship connected in some way to the Cambridge community, it is possible to arrange a sublet.</p>
<p>Re: summer sublet at grad dorms at MIT…just be aware that new leases for the grad dorms begin in mid August, so your daughter would need to be out by then. What you pay for a sublet is negotiated between you & the grad student doing the subleasing.</p>
<p>Thanks for the MIT info everyone! We’re not sure which neighborhood to look in because she is going to be working in the financial district. Blue Line? So advice along those lines would help too.</p>
<p>Donna,</p>
<p>I sent you a PM</p>
<p>Unless she’s in East Boston, I don’t think she needs to be on the blue line. The blue only has one stop in Boston that is not serviced by another line, Bowdoin, and it’s a five-minute walk from the red line and a five-minute walk from the green line. I am saying this because I think you will have better luck at finding housing if you are not trying to stay on the blue line (East Boston is invconvenient and then you get to the North Shore). </p>
<p>Depending on where exactly the work is, I think the red and orange lines should both be convenient. With the red line, You can find affordable and relatively safe housing in Cambridge and Somerville (by Davis square), and the orange line goes through the South End, Mission Hill, and Jamaica Plain. Alternatively, although it would be a bit more expensive, there is a decent amount of housing in downtown Boston, and most of that area would not be a bad walk. I don’t know if there’s a way to contact Suffolk and Emerson students for sublets, but that would be right by where you’re looking.</p>
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Sorry I do not know … my latest specific info would be about Cornell in 1981 … probably not relevant now! But I’d think most schools do something similar now … wether it is open to “outsiders” is a great question … I’d suggest finding a human at the schools to find out.</p>