<p>If all else fails, it does seem that lower cost hotel rooms are readily available near TTU*; you can see if you can stay in one for a few days at the beginning of the semester while you look for more long term housing.</p>
<p>*Try searching for “hotels near Texas Tech” on <a href=“http://maps.google.com”>http://maps.google.com</a></p>
<p>Have you tried Craigslist? Local Paper? Can you call the housing office? What about dorms?</p>
<p>@bopper I got a response. There’s absolutely no possibility of dorms at all. There’s apparently a very long waiting list.</p>
<p>I haven’t checked Craigslist in recent weeks, but checking like last month and the months before that, the most reasonable rates that people were trying to fill were, “FEMALES ONLY – guys don’t even respond, ALL guys are messy I don’t care what you say” or “Roommate wanted, rent and utilities only $325 for females! Guys are expected to pay the full $650 a month for rent plus splitting utilities.”</p>
<p>I just couldn’t read the Craigslist ads anymore after reading about 20 of those on the front page of Craigslist housing for Lubbock.</p>
<p>I’ll look again…</p>
<p><a href=“http://housing.expatfinder.com/looking-for-a-flat-mate-in-lubbock?page=0”>http://housing.expatfinder.com/looking-for-a-flat-mate-in-lubbock?page=0</a></p>
<p>check here, they are looking for roommates</p>
<p>the two TT students might let you move in even if you’re not a girl and might be able to teach to cook and do laundry.</p>
<p>Did you ask the woman you were going to rent from if she has a friend, neighbor who might look for a renter?</p>
<p>I don’t think the above ads cared if the renter was male or female. One had tried to sublet for almost a year. Good luck!</p>
<p><a href=“http://apartments.oodle.com/lubbock-tx/roommates/”>http://apartments.oodle.com/lubbock-tx/roommates/</a></p>
<p>more here</p>
<p>Try a different approach / angle :
contact some of the clubs that you plan to join & ask them for help.
Many clubs are small clubs so they know just about everyone in their club. Sometimes rooms are available thru word of mouth. If you ask them, they may be able to help you out.
Also contact the local church ( optional) & ask if they rent apt / or houses for their fellowship.
Good luck </p>
<p>You need to look on several sections of craigslist. Roomate wanted. Sublet. Go to Airbnb and see if there’s someone near campus renting out rooms by the night that you can negotiate with.</p>
<p>Do not let this setback derail you. Do not.</p>
<p>Op,
For 11 days, I would stay at a cheap motel like motel 6</p>
<p>Oops, I misread your post. Ignore my previous post.</p>
<p>I think I should just cut my losses now and withdraw while I can. Remember how took to Facebook about a week ago in hopes that maybe someone wanted a roommate? Yeah, it still isn’t going well.</p>
<p>Only one girl commented on it, “no u r ugly af” and it’s gotten about 5 likes. I can’t find anyone, including my parents to go tour apartments in this coming week.</p>
<p>Thanks guys, but it literally looks like it’s over.</p>
<p>I think you’re giving up too easily. I think the suggestion made by ucbalumnus is a good one. Rent a lower-cost motel room for a few days or a week while you look at available apartments/rooms. If you’d rather give up now, that’s your choice, but it certainly isn’t the only choice, and I don’t think it’s a good one. What will you do now if you don’t go to TTU?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t know what I’m going to do… I even just checked the university right here in my hometown. All the classes are completely filled to their capacity and limits a week before classes start. Guaranteed, a few people will drop within the first few weeks, but technically all the seats that the classrooms can accommodate are filled at this point meaning it’s unlikely I could beg my way into the classes at this point.</p>
<p>I guess I could take a year off, but I’m quite honestly at the turning point of my education–meaning taking the year off means I probably will not make the transition back into the education system very easily. I’ll probably have forgotten most of my math techniques by this time next year. Heck, I quite honestly forgot how show my work the other day on how to solve a system of equations and I took a whole class dedicated to it called linear algebra for several months. It came back to me, but it took longer than it should have.</p>
<p>I guess I could be homeless while I attend TTU. Yes, I’m being serious when I say that. I’ve looked into a few leases for apartments and no one can help me until September 1st, which is a little too late for me to decide what’s going to happen unfortunately.</p>
<p>Why couldn’t I have like… another year to decide this stuff? Financial aid has already paid for everything and if I back out at this point, I’m probably going to have to repay all that money. Eurgh. I did get a refund from financial aid, so I guess I could split that evenly across renting the outrageous cost for a one bedroom near campus</p>
<p>The reason I don’t want to get a roommate(s) at an apartment is because I won’t have known them long enough at this point. A week? Hehe. I understand I’d have the same experience at a dorm, getting paired with someone I don’t know, but a majority of people have interacted with their roommate online several weeks or months beforehand.</p>
<p>Yup. I’m boned. Don’t know what to do…</p>
<p>Find something on airbnb or craig’s list for a few days while you get your feet under you. these set ups have no obligation required. Once you’re in town, go to the school for help. You won’t be the first student who has had housing difficulties.</p>
<p>I agree with the posters who said get a cheap motel for a few days. What’s the worst that happens if you go, you withdraw before whatever the deadline is? One of my nieces rented apartments the entire time she was in college. She had 3 different ones. The first was in a house with a group of four or five young people who didn’t meet until they each rented a room in that house. The last two were with one of the girls she met in the first house and a couple of other friends they made their first year in school. You can’t succeed if you don’t try. You can do this. Good luck. </p>
<p>Listen to what you’re saying. If you don’t go now, you’ll be wasting a great opportunity that you might not get again. You also have no plan B for the immediate future. That’s not worth giving up because you can’t get housing until September 1st. It is already August 17, and it doesn’t sound to me like you need to be there tomorrow. Even if you did, that REALLY isn’t a big enough time gap to be worth giving up an education over. I just checked; there are hotels in Lubbock starting at $41 a night. This is a big enough deal that it is worth spending your money on, even if it means putting yourself in a slight financial hole.</p>
<p>I looked on craiglist for Lubbock. Here is a link to exactly where I am looking: <a href=“https://lubbock.craigslist.org/roo/”>https://lubbock.craigslist.org/roo/</a>
As you said, some of them are only for females, but not all. I’m going to list the available ones:</p>
<p>LIsting 1 (under Saturday, September 16th) Lease doesn’t start until September 1st, but the person says they’d be willing to help you stay in the apartment before then.
Listing 4: Location may not be ideal, but looks like it could start right away.
Listing 5:Available immediately
Listing 7: Wants to rent to TT student; available for move in as of yesterday</p>
<p>Looking at Friday’s postings, check out 5 and 7 (this one begins August 27th, so there might be a few day gap, but better than September 1st).</p>
<p>Camera, I’ve just been looking for ten minutes and came up with a list of 6 options just posted in the last two days. Have you looked into all of them? Have you looked into ANY of them?</p>
<p>I’m no psychologist, but to be frank, it sounds to me like you’re anxious about starting school and are subconsciously sabotaging yourself in order to give yourself a reason not to go. I have literally never heard before of someone having to change college plans because they couldn’t find housing. You’ve been given a lot of advice, and you’re coming up with excuses not to do it - i.e, the fact that “everyone” is looking only for female roommates, when clearly that is not the case. The idea that you’re seriously considering not going to school because you’ve found apartments starting September 1st but might have to get a cheap hotel in the interim is ludicrous. Heck, while it isn’t an ideal answer (and not one I remotely think you’ll have to utilize), before I dropped out, I would skip a few days of class and start a little bit late - which is a bad plan, but, again, not as bad as dropping out.</p>
<p>You can do this! You’ve made it this far, and you are so, so close! Please don’t throw it away over some manageable logistical problems and your own anxiety about this exciting step in your life!</p>
<p>ETA: I just noticed that you’re also rejecting options that would require you to live with a roommate. That is absolutely ridiculous. Yup, living with strangers is a risk. In this case, it is a risk worth taking - and is also something that many, many people do at some point. Again, the fact that you keep shifting the parameters to add new criteria is a sign that there’s a part of you that really doesn’t want to go to TTU at all, and that needs to be fought.</p>
<p>Are you listening to the voices of those family members who want you to stay home? Shut them out of your head.</p>
<p>There are so many housing options that can work for you. If you CHOOSE to stay home, that is your CHOICE. At least own up to your feelings and admit you are scared to go away to this college.</p>
<p>I agree. Give yourself a chance if you really want this. Go back and read your first posts and all the reasons why you wanted to go to texas tech. You have an almost free tuition scholarship, you have money saved for room and board. You wanted to take advantage of the opportunities ttu offers. You have a car.
Can you go down there and look in person for a place? Check into some of the roommate suggestions posted here, you can meet these people and look at the places ahead of classes starting.
And if that fails maybe ask the college or students if they have suggestions, maybe people near the college will rent a room or you can ask a local church to help you.
The unknown can be scary but you will have a great opportunity and I’m sure you will find a way to get housing.
Once you start taking classes you will know why you’re there.</p>
<p>OP - big hug to you.</p>
<p>Here’s a technique that has worked for me when I’ve faced a roadblock in my life…</p>
<p>Go to a quiet place and imagine yourself 20 years from now, explaining to your child or your boss why you didn’t do X. What language are you going to use to explain to your boss why you never got a bachelor’s degree… because you couldn’t find a place to live for a week or two before the September 1 leases began? Because you were reluctant to move in with a stranger and have a roommate (which is pretty much what everyone in America does at college unless they are living at home with their families). Because you were afraid to drive to Lubbock without knowing what your permanent address was going to be and you didn’t want to sleep at a Motel 6 for a couple of nights???</p>
<p>How is that going to sound in 20 years- like the thought process of a rational adult, or the random anxieties of a teenager???</p>
<p>Get a grip- take a big step from being an anxious teenager and towards adulthood, and fill the car with gas and get yourself to college. These logistical hurdles are annoying- no question. It is unsettling to have to room with a stranger for the first time- I’ll grant you that. It is scary to take a huge step towards independence- all the parents on this board will nod up and down- yes it’s scary.</p>
<p>But don’t throw away this huge opportunity because you are too scared or too inflexible to move into a cheap motel for a couple of days while you find permanent housing. Don’t. You will be spending the rest of your life explaining why you couldn’t move to Lubbock, and once the initial anxiety subsides, you will realize how irrational it sounds. Grab this and go. The people telling you to stay home are acting out their own anxieties. Don’t let their fear of your independence chain you to your childhood bedroom. You’re a “man with a plan” so fill the tank, throw some granola bars in the trunk and get going.</p>
<p>@cameraphone I BEG OF YOU: listen to what blossom and apprenticeprof in particular are telling you! GO TO COLLEGE!!! Sorry for the caps, but I am finding this literally agonizing. Don’t do this to yourself. </p>
<p>Recently, my S had 10 days to find an apartment and get a car in order to start his first professional job. He was starting on the 9th of June and had a very limited budget. What we ended up putting together was that he would stay in an inexpensive hotel the first few nights, transfer to their less expensive hostel area where space became available after that, and move into a room in a shared house on July 8th. It worked. He’s working. He didn’t know any of the people in the shared house before moving in. That’s what people do.</p>
<p>You can do it! Do not let your life be derailed my something that is a common annoyance, not an earth-shattering problem. Please.</p>
<p>ETA: S had me helping him with research and making calls. I gather that you don’t have anyone to do that. <strong>I</strong> will do it for you, if you need help. I mean it.</p>