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So I am a graduate student right now and I love in on-campus housing. I am moving from a two-bedroom apartment to a one-bedroom apartment at some undisclosed point. First problem. How is it possible to manage student housing and NOT KNOW when your apartments will become available. So now they are saying that I can't move until August, most likely DURING the first week of class. Great. Problem 2. Just getting through the first few weeks of class with a new schedule and everything is bad enough. Now I have to move too? Problem three would be that my roommate should be very annoyed because it complicates her search for a new roommate that they would not be able to move in until after the first week of classes. Problem 4 is that I was told I could move before I went home for the summer. They are not keeping their commitments. And then there is he fact that I am an out-of-state student here. I can't just come back early and accommodate for their stupid mistakes. That would be problem 5. The whole thing is a mess.

So I talked to the apartment manager. She was actually decently helpful. To bad she doesn't actually manage the apartments. She basically said she didn't know and tried to appease me by giving me money off rent until I can move. I called her boss. Her boss was my least favorite person on this journey so far. i don't know what the apartment manager told her, but I never got to really say I word. The boss's exact words were that I could "call here every day and that wouldn't change anything". Um... I actually just wanted to tell you that your system is crashing. But oh well. Then when I tried to mention this she said that she just "wasn't involved" with what I had been told. Ok, so what is it that you do again? I was under the impression that your job is to deal with housing organization (fail) and conflicts between students and housing management (double fail).

I will admit that I was frustrated with the apartment manager. She should honestly count herself lucky though. There was a time when I crusaded over every little issue in my life as it if were life and death. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that life is not always fair and just and that people tend to take very little responsibility for their own lives. I did not yell at the manager, though I would not describe it as a happy conversation. Honestly I think they are simply angry that someone is actually holding them to the promises they have made.

Someone needs to take responsibility for this department. Would it be unreasonable to go to the department head at this point? There is still one more person above the apartment manager's boss. Since the boss is obviously not going to give me the time of day I am not quite sure where to go from here. I can't decide if this is me being to rigid and freaking out over my schedule for hte first week of August getting destroyed or if this is actually justified.

I have had a roommate this year. She is very nice and quiet, but she comes in late (quietly) and is just always home. There hasn't been major conflict, just the sound 24/7 bothers me and having someone there all the time is driving me crazy. I just need some space without feeling like I am being watched every second.

Thanks!

most of the time people move out at the end of the term, then the people who manage the property spend a week or so getting everything ready for move in such as repairing damage and painting