Moving off campus made simple with online resources

Eileen Mellon Contributing Writer

With the spring semester under way, it’s time for some VCU students to start thinking of housing plans for the summer and the following school year.

Off-Campus Student Services offers help and guidance on the important components related to living offcampus. They have information about seemingly easy issues, like roommate choices and lesser-known issues, like tenant rights.

The office offers online services as well, where a student can create a profile and post sublets, find roommates and furniture and look for places to rent. Students can make a personal profile to allow someone to search roommate profiles and availability. It is designed to match students and tries to match students without housing with someone who currently has one. The database is run by a company called Off Campus Partners and works with multiple universities to set up a searchable database.

VCU student Lauren Mock said this particular feature helped her