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The Davis housing market is unlike any you’ve encountered before. The rules you’ve learned elsewhere don’t necessarily apply. For example, although Davis houses have always garnered a substantial premium, does it make more economic sense to rent or buy? (Short answer: unless you are planning on staying in Davis more than seven years, renting in Davis is the smartest economic choice.)

If you’re just coming from out of the dorms, out of the area or out of country, you’ll need a guiding hand. That’s why the Davis Housing Helpers are here.

We will answer all your housing questions and get the perfect apartment for you. Give us a try.

How to communicate with roommates without being there.

Davis roommates are like family members: they don’t always communicate well. To help keep everyone in your Davis apartment on the same page, create a roommate communications center.

Lifehack.com has a few suggestions for what you will need:

A Cork Board

A cork board, with plenty of push pins, is useful for handling information you need to refer to for a short time. Receipts, party invitations and reading lists live on mine. The cork board is also a good place to leave phone messages, although I cannot speak to that, since my family doesn’t do messages.

A White Board Shopping List

Having a running shopping list where everyone can see it is a good way to keep track of things that need to be purchased…before it becomes a critical matter Ask your family to add things to these lists when they are needed.

Warning: leaving a shopping list out where children can get to it may result in junk food being added to the shopping list in a chance to bypass parental approval.

Check out the rest of the post for more ideas.

Splitting expenses with odd roommates

They say that couples most often argue about money. The same goes for Davis roommates. While you have found the the perfect Davis apartment to share, how you split the expenses of a two bedroom apartment with three people doesn’t require a UC Davis math major.

ApartmentRatings.com has some simple suggestions for how to split a two bedroom with three people including.

Base It on the Bathrooms

If two of the three roommates are sharing a bathroom, the individual with a private bathroom should pay a larger share of the living expenses. Usually, a private bathroom is worth $50 to $100 more a month, depending on the size of the bathroom. Note, however, that this solution might not work if the third occupant has a private bathroom, but the other two roommates occupy large bedrooms or have a more luxurious bathroom.

To read the other suggestions, click here.

UC Davis is officially a “COOL SCHOOL”

Sierra Magazine named UC Davis one of America’s Top 10 Coolest Schools

Courtesy of Karin Higgins/UC Davis

 

 

Established as a farm school, UC Davis still excels in nurturing sustainable methods of food production. Above, viticulture and enology students prepare grapes at the campus’s new Brewery, Winery, and Food Science Laboratory, a facility that earned LEED Platinum certification. Score: 73.2

UC Davis can score deep discounts on Amazon Prime

Want to get that sexy new Kindle Fire? Want to get a discount on Amazon Prime? UC Davis students are always looking for ways to make their money stretch more. Check out Amazon Student for deep discounts on shipping everything at Amazon. As Lifehacker tells us:

People who got in on the 1 year free Amazon Prime for students last summer should be hitting their 1 year expiration date right about now. So that’s why Amazon is now offering them 50% off a regular Amazon prime account.

What’s good about paying $39 for something you got for free is that with this new paid account, you get access to Amazon Prime benefits like unlimited Amazon Instant Streaming, which student accounts were excluded from before.

Check out Amazon Student for details.

Video: How not to tick off the landlord

The folks at Lifehacker.com (another one of our all time favorite sites) have some tips for how to decorate your Davis apartment without ticking off your landlord. Check it out.

Roommate chores: Are your ready to rumble?

Just like families, Davis roommates often fight about chores. Unclutterer.com has seven step to creating your household routine.

When creating a new household routines schedule or revising one you’ve used for years (like we are), follow these seven steps:

  1. Make a list of all the things that need to get done on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Use four columns (daily, every other day, weekly, monthly) and also identify when during the day these tasks need to be completed. For example: Daily — Assemble son’s lunch while making dinner. Weekly — Mow yard in early morning or evening when it’s not blistering hot.
  2. Keep your list of regular chores to the bare minimum. You and your housemates do not have superpowers. There is a difference between things that have to get done and things you want to get done. Cross any item off your list that isn’t essential. The would-be-nice-to-do items are more appropriate for your daily action items, not your regular routine chart.
  3. Once the list is created, decide who in the house will be responsible for each chore. If you live alone, you can probably skip this step. Assign responsibilities fairly.

For the other four tips, read the full article.

Hang pictures without losing your security deposit.

Over at Lifehacker, they have a step by step guide to How to Hang Pictures Without Destroying Your Walls.  One of the tips we liked was this one:

Bonus Tip: Use Disposable Hooks

3M’s Command line of plastic and metal hooks also work well to hang light pieces of art and posters from drywall or concrete, without the need for drills or nails. Apartment dwellers in rental units, college students, or anyone else who’s technically prohibited from hammering or drilling will find them especially useful. The adhesive strips that come with Command hooks go on easily, cure quickly, and remove without damaging the walls (in most cases,) which is a huge benefit if you like to change out the art on your walls frequently, or just don’t want to risk drilling or hammering nails into them.

The trouble with these kinds of disposable hooks, Velcro strips, and other mounting strips is that they’re generally rated for very light objects. If you have small, light plastic or acrylic frames with photos or printed posters in them, they’ll work well. If you have a solid wood frame or oversized pieces of art, they may hold for a few days, but your art will come clattering down unless you use three or four hooks to hold it up.

Check out the very informative full post.

 

 

Get cheaper UC Davis textbooks.

If you want to find the best online deal on textooks for UC Davis, check out GetchaBooks.com.  Although UC Davis course, aren’t currently listed in their school menu, you can search for textbook deals by ISBN.

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As TechCrunch explains it:

GetchaBooks, founded by three youngsters (two who are still undergrads at Tufts), has just announced an expanded and improved database of classes and books, pushing the number of schools available in their unique interface from 600 to 1,275.

GetchaBooks is different from other services like Chegg and Textbooks.com in that the search system is centered around courses. Rather than typing in “Advanced Dance Movement For Accountancy Students” into a search box, you select your school, your courses, and sections. GetchaBooks then searches its database of courses and finds the required reading for each course.

Book.ly and Slugbooks also offer by-course searches as well, although Getchabooks is a bit more streamlined.

Getting Along with Your Davis Apartment Roommate


College is often the first time folks live on their own, away from their parents. This experience can be both exhilarating and frightening, and some students react by going a little nutsy koo-koo, and forgetting their basic good manners. If you have a Davis apartment roommate who seems to have reverted to his or her troglodyte roots, these basic live-and-let-live rules of the house might help smooth things out.

1. Don’t Borrow Without Asking

Just because you live together doesn’t mean that what’s yours is theirs or vice versa. Establish that you don’t mind your roommate borrowing or using your stuff (if that’s really the case), as long as she asks first (or if it’s an extreme emergency). This avoids you going to use something and finding it gone or dirty. If you don’t want to share, say so. Your roommate might not have the same ideas about sharing as you do.

2. Keep It Separate

Although you live in a shared space, try to keep your possessions separate. Having separate space in the closet for your books and for your other belongings gives you a sense of having a private space for yourself–even if it’s only 10 feet away from your roommate. When you’re busy, stressed, frustrated or angry, those 10 feet can seem like a mile.

Remember, a little courtesy can go a long way. For more tips and information on rules for living with a Davis apartment roommate, please visit the link at ohmyapt.com.