tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10075364.post111809111497763738..comments2023-10-31T01:22:35.115-06:00Comments on The Bleeding Ear: BYU HousingTriethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701248527929189357noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10075364.post-35851047220509712422008-01-14T13:05:00.000-07:002008-01-14T13:05:00.000-07:00People like to use that excuse a lot: "You don't h...People like to use that excuse a lot: "You don't have to live there..." or "You don't have to go to that basketball game..." etc.<BR/><BR/>Except that those retorts are essentially <I>non sequitur</I> in my opinion. The debate is not whether to go to BYU or not, but how to better the situation once there.<BR/><BR/>Sure, I could have transfered to another school, but I would have missed out on all that BYU offered that I liked, wanted, or needed. I shamelessly used BYU for it's microbiology program. My experience in a micro lab there helped me get to where I am now -- far better than if I had gone to another school.<BR/><BR/>What IS proper, is the question of how best to improve a system once in it. BYU students should have as much right as anyone else to identify imperfections/inadequacies/inefficiencies in BYU and strive to fix them.<BR/><BR/>My original post, engendered conversation on the problem, and highlighted one large aspect: the BYU housing office.<BR/><BR/>The next step is to continue the conversation and steer it towards answering this question:<BR/><BR/>"What can we do to change the situation for the better?"<BR/><BR/>Then, we just need to do it.Triethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14701248527929189357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10075364.post-68534395485625594162008-01-14T09:32:00.000-07:002008-01-14T09:32:00.000-07:00I love it when people complain about BYU policies....I love it when people complain about BYU policies.<BR/><BR/>The fact is, you don't have to go to school at BYU. And there are tons of <A HREF="http://www.homes4saleinutah.com/provo_condos" REL="nofollow">BYU approved condos for sale.</A><BR/><BR/>You can be a victim, or find a way to solve the problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10075364.post-49282299246270816402007-11-30T08:23:00.000-07:002007-11-30T08:23:00.000-07:00Here's a viewpoint from the other side. Currently...Here's a viewpoint from the other side. Currently, my wife and I live in Houston, TX, where there are no zoning laws, and <I>definitely</I> no BYU housing office to deal with.<BR/><BR/>Consequently, we live in a two bedroom condo, about 1000 sq ft. We are part of a gated condo complex. Our mortgage + HOA + utilities comes to around $900/mo. <BR/><BR/>One bedroom would probably have been a single room, but our master bedroom would definitely have been double. So, you've got three people for $900 (1 single, 2 shared) and you say,<BR/><BR/>"That's not too different from BYU."<BR/><BR/>Except that we have a HUGE step up in living quality. It's a gated community near the medical center, with nice pergo(fake wood) floors etc. My fellow students that rent places in the other <I>gated</I> complexs around me are paying about $700ish for their places. If they shared those, they'd be less than BYU also -- and we're in the middle of the fourth biggest city in the USA.<BR/><BR/>Moral of the story: buy property in Provo.Triethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14701248527929189357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10075364.post-21929883071350341582007-11-16T15:53:00.000-07:002007-11-16T15:53:00.000-07:00Well put. I used to live at Liberty Square were I ...Well put. I used to live at Liberty Square were I paid 260$ a month with 5 other girls, not including utilities. We're talking about 15 hundred a month for an apartment that had no living room furniture! I heard they just upped the price too another 30$. The appartment was crap, it would take weeks to get things fixed, they charged me for things that never happened and refused to pay me back. It was so horrible I went to off-campus housing, there reply was "Well if you don't like it, you can try to sell your contract, there is nothing that's too unlivable." There was also a rule that said we wern't allowed to contact the landlord and when I tried to complain to the managment they'd say "We're students too, and we have to live with it too." <BR/><BR/>There is a trent that a lot of people who own the large apartment complexs out here are from upscale neighborhoods out of state. Who wouldn't want to own a complex out here? You get away with murder and you make a fortune off of poor college students. What can we do?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com