It has been a long and frustrating DC housing search, but I’m happy to say that it is over and I will not be a homeless person when I start law school in a few weeks.
Mostly, this is thanks to the awesome power of the internet (specifically Craigslist, Google Maps, and Facebook), which has allowed me to:
- Conduct a detailed housing search … from 1500 miles away.
- Coordinate that housing search with a roommate who is literally on the other side of the world (Daniel, who I have been looking with, is currently traveling though SE Asia–at various points during the housing hunt, he has been in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.)
- Remotely check out the neighborhood, virtually take what will be my daily commute from the house to the Metro to campus, and stalk (not too much) my landlord and roommates.
Additionally, once Daniel and I had made a deal with the landlord to get all three bedrooms at a discounted rate, we were able to seek out and vet a third roommate and remotely coordinate a showing (the third roommate is actually the only one of us who has seen the house in person so far–he will be joining us in mid-August with his dog, Dimitra).
Thank you, internet.
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