Hi,
first off, I am the guy who wrote about the poor quality and low standards of Collins College previously. This is a sort of continuation but in a new report. When you come to Tempe to go to school at Collins you can either get your own apartment or you can sign up with RnR Realty. You're better off not attending Collins to begin with, but if you do decide to, make sure you have enough money to rent a place on your own.
RnR will room you with three other people who really don't share the same interests as you, or match any description of roommates who you prefer (that's in the application for RnR). They charge you about $350 as a security deposit and then $400 a month for rent. This covers your electricity and your water and they furnish the place with the bare minimum (and really crappy) furniture and outdated appliances. That means they are charging $1600 a month for your rent where you could have the same place for $800 if you weren't with RnR. You would be better off getting your own place with two other people and you'd still be paying less after you pay for utilities.
On top of that, they do a thing called 'consolidation'. This is where they relocate roommates because there are only three people in some apartments and they want to make as much money as possible so they quit their lease and put as many people as they can together and overcharge you for it. Also, if you have a car, watch out. They will try to put one person with a car into an apartment with three people who don't have cars. So you will be expected to drive your roommates around. And bring lots of money and some good references because you'll need to get a job to pay for over priced housing and the roommates who mooch off you.
And now to consolidation. They will give you a couple weeks notice but if you're working that fulltime job and going to school like you're supposed to, you're not gonna have time to look for a new apartment with roommates you'll potentially like, let alone time to move your stuff. So if you don't have a car, stay away because your roommate with a car will move himself first and next he would move the highest bidder. So you're left to your own devices to move all of your stuff 2 miles away on the busline.
Also, for your inconvenience if you want to break your lease, they take your security deposit and charge you an extra $350 to break your lease, just because it's gets in their way because they need you to move from a place that they put you in to begin with. And that's with a 30-day notice of breaking lease. Stay away from collins college and RnR realty and you'll probably have a good life. I promise.
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