Welcome everyone to our second. Before you arrive, a webinar of winter 20.23. Today, we're going to be talking about tips and strategies for finding off-campus housing. And this webinar is primarily geared for our international graduate students. So as you are aware, this webinar presentation portion of this webinar will be recorded and we will have a question-and-answer session after the presentation. However, the question-and-answer session will not be recorded. And that's usually where a lot of our information will be discussed. So we do encourage you to attend our live webinars. As I mentioned, we do have a Q&A session at the end of the presentation. If you do have questions, please type them in the chatbox and direct them to see GPS programs. We will be addressing as many questions as we can after the presentation. Some of your questions might be answered throughout the presentation, so you may want to hold off on your questions until after the presentation is over. So let's get right into our presentation. The purpose of this webinar is really to provide you a starting point for your off campus housing search. In this webinar, we will try to provide you with tools, some resources, some guiding tips as you embark on your search for off-campus housing, will also provide you with some considerations on how you can make that decision for finding off-campus housing. Towards the end of the presentation. We'll also provide you with the schedule of the rest of the webinars that we have for this winter. And as I mentioned, we'll be answering your questions after the presentation is over. So for today's topics, as I mentioned, we're gonna be talking about thinking about what your priorities are, what factors you want to consider as you're looking for off-campus housing will give you some guidance on how to start your search for off-campus housing. There will be some links provided in the chat that you can click through as we talk about them. We'll also be talking about tips on finding housing. What do you need to be looking for as you're looking at some of the different options that you have in front of you, as well as things to remember when you're signing a lease. There are some really good guidance and tips that are available on UD resources and we'll be highlighting some of those tips throughout the webinar today. For some of you, signing a lease to an apartment might be very new, especially here in the United States. So we'll provide some of the things, some common things to know about what it means to be leasing an apartment, what is in that lease, and what are the other things to consider before you sign the lease? We'll also show you a map of some options of off-campus housing that are near campus. There are several housing options, different types of housing around campus, but there are also others that are a little bit further away from campus, will provide you with a screenshot of a map that shows where the spread of those different housing, housing options are around campus. And finally, we'll wrap up the presentation by talking about now you have the resources, you've got the tools, what will be your next steps? And we'll help you get started on that search. So for today, there will be two co-presenters for the webinar. My name is Bina too tall. I am Assistant Director for Special Programs here at C GPS. And that's our current programming Associate here is also presenting and he's going to start the presentation with the next slide. So sorry, take it away. It was his life person. A couple of segments. Thank you, Gina. So I think the first thing is think about when we talk about housing options is to figure out what your priorities are. Because there will be multiple options. Each of them will have some benefits and some things that are more difficult about them. You'll have to decide between them, but until you figure out what your priorities are and what you're looking for, it'll be difficult to sort through them because some of them may have totally opposite benefits. And so it'd be the middle. E.g. I. Live next to the train station. The train lines, you might hear a train going next to me, e.g. right now. So I'll try to speak up if you can't hear me, let me know. So one of the things that people often will think about is space requirements. So if you're a single, if you're living alone or if you want to live alone, that's one consideration. If you're bringing people with you. Like if you have family or dependence, that's one thing to consider. You might want to have more space. If you have roommates that you're looking to. Meet up with and live together with maybe someone in your department or someone you already know. It's another consideration, Alice, Iraq at any other thing too is also cost. So cost is fairly important most people's lists, because you have a finite budget most of the time and you had to figure out what's going to fit within that budget because you have other expenses you may have to consider. In proximity is also a big one. I think one of the reasons why the options for housing around UD are so expensive is because people want to be as close as possible to campus. Might want to drive 20 min away. That's possible. But then you're going to have to figure out a way to get yourself there. So transport is another big consideration. Those to kind of go together. How far away you are and where you're located will determine what transport options you have. University of Delaware does offer a free shuttle for all of its students and for his community members. And that's pretty great. But if you're not on the shuttle route, and if maybe you're looking to have maybe some, if you're trying to bring stuff with you alive, you have a heavy backpack. You have figured out how I'm gonna get there because we might be able to walk, but it might be a little bit far, but be a little bit difficult when the weather is bad. So it's figured out, okay, what other ways to get there besides walking? Which is great, but also the shuttle is not available. How can I get there? There might be some bike routes, but they figured out it really bikeable. Google Maps might be unreliable, say, Oh yeah, it's totally a bikeable. There you go there. And there's no shoulder, there's no sidewalk, and it's just tons of cars on a highway and that's not really a safe. So there's some ways to evaluate that. If you do end up getting a car, then you have to figure out how are we going to store that car. I'm going to do I have a parking lots. Is there a way I can put it into a garage to have to pay for parking permits. So all these considerations kinda factor in then also safety. So there is some publicly available safety information we can use to evaluate different options. And then depending on location, all these things factor. And then ultimately if you do have roommates, how are you going to negotiate that in terms of the lease? Talk about that later, but are you going to try to share a room? Do you need to have different rooms? All these things come together. So it's a lot of information, but to summarize, basically, you have to figure out what is most important to you. Because all of these are great factors that ideally you would have everything perfect, but realistically that won't happen. So you have to kinda figure out ahead of time what is important to you. What are the things that are really going to be difficult? So e.g. say you can't drive is a wall, power is out of the option, and then roommates and all that stuff. So when we go through the different options, so you go through later, these are the different things we want to be thinking about so that we can factor that into the equation. The question, of course, for most people, especially if you're not physically here yet, which I think many of you are not. How do you start your search? I mean, if you're just hearing, he's walking around and see what's around. But if you don't have access to them, so most part people will just go online. There is a housing website. Go to that a little bit later, but we do have a website available. And there's a link that would just put in the chat. And it's the starting point. So it's not everything, but it is a good starting point to look at different options. And of course, you can use search engines like Google or whatever your favorite preferences. And you'll find maybe tons of commercially available ones. The ones that are a little bit less commercially available may not be as easy to find, but you can definitely find some things. But just going into a search engine. There are some social media options, e.g. on Facebook, there's some Facebook groups. Some of them are more exclusive to deliver community. Some of them are not. Regardless, just be a little bit careful, but there are some available options on social media. They might see advertisements and stuff like that. So we're not really condoning or advertising any one of these as being really great. We're just saying visa this and things that you can look at the figure it out later, and evaluate which options are best for you. One of the things that I think really can be helpful is if you have a department, like an academic department that does a good job of sending out lists. Oftentimes previous students or current students will have options available and give recommendations and some of that information, like e.g. say someone lives in a house and they're leaving. And the person says, Hey, look, I have a free rooms, anybody need this? The departments will usually take care of that. And that's a really great option. So definitely keep an eye out for emails and messages from your academic departments. And finally, some student organizations are really good about this too. They will do the same thing. They have a list of places where the students live to have reviews. Maybe they have some anecdotes and stories they can tell you. Keep in mind that this is sort of peer to peer advice. So you have to do your own bidding and make sure you follow up on any information you do get. Some student organizations do really have quite exhaustive guidance, so maybe check with them to before you get too deep into looking for things on your own. So plenty of places to start. But I would say the housing website, our housing website is probably the first place. Okay. Alright. So imagine you had found a place. Everything looks great and you figure out, okay, I need to sign a lease contract to know that this room or this house or this apartment will be available for me. How do I go about doing this and what are the things that she consider? We'll go through this more detail, but here are just some basic tips. First thing is ideally when you sign something, you really have to know what it is. Yeah, you're signing. So if you're reading the lease and you don't understand it, make sure you follow up and ask questions and maybe do some research to figure out what something means. That there's some term you don't understand. Don't just be like, oh, well, it's probably fine. Because you might be on the hook for something down the line later. And not all leases are the same. So one company or one landlord might have a term in there, the other one doesn't. And so it might be actually seem like a small thing, but later it can be a very big thing. So ideally, you would understand everything that you're signing within reason and make sure you can evaluate that place. So if you're just coming from abroad and you're going to get here and you don't have a chance to look at it in person. That's understandable. Ideally, you would look at it in person, but there has to be some way that you evaluate that place. So whether it's through reviews, through recommendations, this has to be some way you evaluate to make an informed decision. That's the main that's the main thing to say is that you have to be informed of what you're signing. A couple of sort of general groups of things to keep in mind. One of them is payments. They might be asking, usually they will ask for a deposit. This is mostly so that you don't destroy the place to have some insurance that you have a reason to not like this, tear up the walls so they can use that money as a way to say, Hey, if you don't, if you don't destroy the place, will give your money back. So deposit is a fairly normal thing. But make sure that you know that there's some rules about what they can ask for and how to do that shows a method of payment. Some old school landlords will still ask for a check. And so maybe you need to get paper checks. But for the most part nowadays there are some online payments, but make sure you know that there are different payment methods. So check with that before you commit, because sometimes it can be a hassle. And also the utility is some places have utilities included or not included. You might have to pay the city of New York, e.g. where if you're not within the city limits, you have to pay someone else. So make sure you know that utilities may or may not be included. So make sure you check that. Then terms. Sometimes there's some terms that you don't understand and you should look them up. But there's some things that are potentially confusing, but I'll tease them out. One of them is duration. Somebody say short-term versus long-term. This is not asking you if you're going to two-year program versus a five-year program, this is more about does it for one year or less than one year for residential residential lease. That's usually what it's talking about. Then sometimes you have a very big corporation that will have lots of different apartments available and they will treat us individually, so you might say, okay, absolutely. At least as myself as an individual, then I might be in a room with someone else, but they're totally separately, not responsible for them. Sometimes you're signing a lease that is for a units, whether it's an apartment or a house, and then everybody is in it together. So the rent might seem like very, very high. That's not because it's all on you, is because it's supposed to be shared amongst everybody who lives there. So you just have to check that term to see if it's gonna be a joint versus separate lease and make sure you know, because sometimes it can be difficult if you're with a roommate, they don't really trust them later they leave, and then you have to pay the rent all by yourself. Need to pick out, oh my gosh, how am I going to pay this thing? So keep in mind that that's an option and then subletting. So subletting is basically when you take one room or one spot and then you rent it out to someone else who is not on the lease. So if I have an apartment, there's two bedrooms, I can afford it, but only if someone else has renting a room from me and I sublet, can I invent that room out to someone else? Maybe in the summers or on a vacation, something like that. Some places allowed us some places don't just make sure you are taking that into consideration. I'm aware this is a ton of information and in going through this kind of fast, this will come up again when we do a little bit of digging deep into some specific examples are options, but I just wanted to kind of give you a general sense of what you should be considering. If you're having a hard time figuring out what things are important or not important and what your rights are. It's a little bit exhausted and maybe a little intimidating, but the tenants rights code, like the tenants rights and the Delaware code is actually fairly understandable if you take your time and it really is very valuable. Sometimes landlords would try to bully you, or maybe some people would do things that it's not exactly legal. And maybe they don't even realize that, but maybe something that you can look at and say, Hey, look in the code that tells me that it can't do that. So to say no, you can't ask for a year's month of rent and deposit. That's not cool. Looking to deliver code and make sure that everything is a plus now that way, so I understand what you're reading as much as possible. Evaluate the place if you can look at the writes code to see if anything is inappropriate or maybe something doesn't line up. And I'm payment, make sure that you're able to pay in a way that is not going to be a huge hassle. Make sure you know what you're paying for. Then in terms of knowing the terms of least, try to make sure you're knowing whether it's 12 months, nine months. If you can sublet, etc. Pause there for a moment to digest this of links that we're just sending checks. So some of these links in the chat, I recommend that if you are planning on looking at them later. So just click on them and keep them open in a browser and you can just bookmark them and save them for later. Leg evaluate them at the same time. You just have it open for later. Alright? Alright. Should I go on with this one scissor? Okay. As you are evaluating the different options that you see online, especially since you may not be able to be here in new or to look at these options directly. We do want to remind you that there could be some scams out there. It doesn't happen all the time, but there are folks out there who are trying to scam you out of money, too tricky, out of giving them money. These scams happen in many different ways through phone calls or emails and there could be housing scams as well. So we just wanted to make you aware that these things do exist. Some things to remember. If a deal or if something looks too good to be true, like it's super, super cheap, might be too good to be true. There might be something wrong with it. That's why again, we can't emphasize enough the importance of really doing your research and your homework and evaluating these different options. Let's say you're looking at and housing option and you like it a lot. But there are some things that are unclear. And you're trying to get more information. A contact information, there's an email. Ask for more information and clarification. We say they're politely because you want to make sure that you are communicating well with the owner or the landlord, but don't be afraid to ask for information and clarification. It's okay to ask questions. If they if the landlord decides to not offer it to you because you're asking all these questions than it probably wasn't a good option to begin with. You are you need to It's important for you to be asking questions and ask for clarification if there's something that you don't understand. Again, verify the information from different reviews. You can take a look at the maps. You can Google deceive the places there on the map. There might be some public records. In this context of reviewing the information. You're not just reviewing the information to see, to get the information firsthand, but to also there is this real if you're having doubts and you're having questions, if this place is legitimate. Look at those reviews and scrutinize some of that information to verify that you're not getting scammed. You're not going to a legitimate provider or landlord. Like we said, if you can check the space and check the housing or the apartment in-person before you sign the lease. That way, you know, this place is real. The next one is be wary about sending money up front. Sometimes the scams have happened where an individual is asked to send the landlord money so that you can get the lock code to the house without even seeing the place. So be careful about when there's an exchange of money upfront before you're even able to see anything. So I mentioned earlier that as you are signing the lease, a deposit usually is required, again, so that the landlord can insure their property for future damage. So deposits might be something that's common. But any other kind of requests for money upfront, that's where you might want to be asking a few more questions to ask what this money is for and just be a little bit more careful. Again, look at the tenant's legal rights in the Delaware code and the Newark landlord tone resources to ensure that all requests that you come across are legal and we put those links in the chat. Yeah. Again, we just want to make sure that, you know, that you're safe, guarding your money. You know, these things don't happen all the time, but once in a while they can happen. And we just want to remind you to be a little bit careful as you're reviewing these options. So kind of a recap of a little bit of all the things that we've talked about in the past few slides. A suggested timeline for signing a lease. You know, do your homework, find a place that meets your criteria. You might have to do. Tap a sacrifice one or two factors or different factors if you're prioritizing your budget, e.g. evaluate the options, look at the different resources like the marketing materials reviews online, maybe some peer recommendations from current students at the University of Delaware. If you can see the place in person. Once you're comfortable with everything that you, that you've seen and it meets your criteria, then you should be able to sign the lease with with the property. Now I will also just add here that different properties may ask diff for different types of documents that may include some of your immigration documents. And if you need more time to evaluate an option, you might be able to find some short-term housing when you arrive here in New York. But this could change different factors, like it could add a little bit more to the budget, e.g. or you might have to find a short-term housing that's a little bit further away from, from Canvas. But we just want to say that those options might be available to you if you really need more time or maybe there needs more time for you to be able to get an opening in a certain apartment complex. Alright? So this points. We want to keep in mind that there are different options available to you. I'm going to actually go back one slide. So yeah, so they're different, they're different options available to you. And the first question is, how do I expand that, where this place is, I would say, and where do I go to figure out what other options are available? I'm going to share my screen for a different window. So this is our website Center for Global Programs and Services. You perhaps had been there already. Suspect you have a lot of information here for sure. So it's nice and pretty, but actually on the side and get to these tabs, there's a ton of stuff there. So for International Student and Scholar Services, you go to this tab. And then under the bottom it says resources and there's a lot there. So this is talking about life in the US. And if you go there, eventually this thing works. It takes you to this page and adhere. This is what I was talking about earlier. This is all these different resources and here's the housing page. I couldn't just send you to a but I wanted to show how to get there because it is a lot of clicks I understand. So it can be found within here. There's stuff about on-campus housing and then off-campus housing and what we're talking about, they have a student web page for off-campus housing, isn't off campus housing guide. There's also this map for local apartments. They serve students. This is a place where you actually can find listings and see if there's actually a room or an apartment available for you. It talks a little bit about costs, but it goes through a little bit of what we were talking about. And it has a map showing a couple of different options there. And it has little bit of what we're talking about in terms of signing your house housing agreement, the link to the tenant code, and just general tips about furniture and housing, all that kind of stuff. So this is where I would start again. A lot of it is about what we've covered already. But then these links are actually a first place to start to actually find some options available. So just wanted to show you that is a typical example. Say coming in and have your offer letter. And you have a sense of what your stipend is gonna be if you have some funding where if you have a budget already in mind, You say, okay, I can afford so much money per month in terms of expenditures and then that's your starting point. That's your budget. At that point, it's going to go back to where we were at. That point. We go to example of saying, Okay, I found somebody is, I've got some options. So you go through these websites to go online, you'll find some ads, maybe your Instagram, you see an ad pops up for this big fancy-looking company. And eventually you find, okay, I found a few different things. And how do I decide between these different options? So this is actually not going to give any names because they're multiple different options and we want to put any particular names in your face. But they're, these are four different examples that are very typical, different types of options that people find. So one thing that you will find, the first thing is that some places are closer and maybe a little more expensive, and some places are farther and a little bit less expensive. That's generally the rule. It's not always the case, but generally, the other thing is furnished versus unfurnished. I understand that if you're traveling with two giant suitcases and that's it. Can't leave, bring your furniture from home so you have to figure out if it's unfurnished, how are you going to put furniture in there? You can definitely do that, but somebody had to keep in mind is like having a transport it is there a way to get delivery? Do have money upfront to pay for those things. Furnished is definitely more convenient, but in the long term will generally be more expensive. Some pens on how long you can be here also one-year program, maybe it's something to consider as a priority. So I want to really spend all that money buying furniture, but he's gonna have to sell it after one year. Versus if you're gonna be here for 56 years, maybe it's a worthwhile investment. Apartment a, this first one is furnished. Very convenient. Sounds great. It's a little bit bigger, so you have two to four tenants. So you've met this and roommates, utilities are all included, so you have to worry about paying someone else. So the city, nothing like that, has nice amenities. Maybe it has a pool or it has a recreation center, whereas a gym there, something like that. And it's closest walkable, you can get there. Just Mr. backpack, everything is cool. Sounds ideal. Might end up being. But expensive, maybe $900 person, maybe more. So this is kind of like the most convenient everything you would want potentially in the Nielsen roommates maybe. But it's gonna be a little bit pricing. This is pretty typical. There are definitely a few options that come to mind that fit this description. The next option, similar. The main difference is that maybe it's a little bit farther away, you have to take the shuttle bus and maybe it's unfurnished so you have to buy furniture or find some way to get furniture in there. So that's kind of another typical option. That's it. Save. This is mostly a difference of priorities. Like if you can stay here longer, maybe you want to buy some furniture and maybe your budget is a little bit lower, so you don't want to spend this much money. This is, these are pretty comparable, but one of them is gonna be a little bit more because it's more convenient. Third one is quite different. The third one isn't department that you find that it's not on the UT shuttle route, maybe maybe say 1015, 20 min driving. This is common for usually more senior graduate students who already have a car and know the area. Because these places might be a little bit further away. You get to know if the area feel safe or if it's convenient and usually won't have that much information on ahead of time to decide that some people will get this kind of option ahead of time and go there and be like, Oh, I do not really feel safe here. Great. You won't have information to evaluate that as much until you've been here. So this option is usually for more senior students, but it's definitely an option. Especially if you're coming from with another university within the states where you have some experience, this might be a good option. It's a little bit cheaper. It's unfurnished maybe, but it's gonna be significantly more affordable. Usually, you have to drive. But the caveat is, you have had some kind of vehicle, maybe you can do some carpooling or something like that, but you have to have a vehicle on his figure out. Is there a parking available? You have to pay for a permanent What's the price of gas? Do I feel comfortable driving it? How long is it going to take during rush hour meeting? This is kind of difficult. All of these are additional things. So there's some hidden costs here. Just because $600 per person doesn't mean that's the actual cost. You have to factor and other things. Maybe at the pay utilities like there's a big say oil delivery every, every winter you to pay for oil and it's like a giant expense once per year, it's vector. And so make sure you're looking at all the different things. Make sure you look at the BSW and say, what are the things I'm responsible for? And put that into the picture and make sure you're capturing the whole budget. Hidden costs are not fun. Last thing, this is again, a little bit harder to find. Usually, if you're coming in fresh without having been here. A lot of times this is again for more senior students who have more experience, you can get lucky if you have a UTI department, e.g. or you're part of a student organization that has a house with a room available to you. But usually you have to have some kind of connection first to be able to find these because they are not, not easy to find, but just Googling. And usually the usually you can't really independently verify the information without having some kind of extra extra source. So this usually is the cheapest option. I mean, I don't get your hopes up, but it is possible to get down to 400-500. But more realistically, by the cylindrical person is what you can expect. A lot of times these will be furnished. It's a shared house though, so you might have to share an entrance. It might be a little bit less private because you're living with people in a house. Utilities are usually included and oftentimes they're not on a shuttle route. You might have to might not be too far, but you might have to get a bike or find some way to get campus. So a lot of times this is the most comfortable option will only after you've usually been here for awhile or if you find some connection that's able to give you some lucky, lucky inside information about where you can get a ruminant house. The spectrum here is arranged from most expensive, which is option a, and most convenient. But then to option D, which is a little bit like, very, very difficult to find. Um, but it is the cheapest. It to figure out what am I priorities, what is reasonable to find? Am I going to try a holdout for as long as possible to find some really, really good deal on apartment or room in a house? Or do I want to make sure that I'm going to have a place as soon as they come in, I can just go and just go to sleep right away. So my first day. So depending on your options, what you have to give a place you can stay for a little while. This will factor into decision-making. I think there is a link about the shuttle map that's in the chat. So you can check to see what's on the shuttle. And you can compare on Google Maps like is this line, I have a map on the next slide. You can say like, Okay, well, this place seems like it's kind of far off but not too far, but I don't really want to be walking that it every day. If we're trying to get up to Main Street, e.g. you can see like, Okay, well is on the shuttle line, then you can check the shuttle bus map and say, oh, this is one of the stops, perfect. Then this one might seem like too far away, the world's pretty close, maybe it just a little further. They might say, Oh, well, actually it's not on the shuttle bus. So to figure out how to get there, I'm going to break they're going to get try. It seems like just a little bit further away, becomes suddenly a lot more of a hassle. So the bike routes, same thing. So you find some house, e.g. this is one of these places, like some random spot. And you say, okay, well, can I bike in from there? It might seem totally fine. There's some some streets I see. Yeah, it looks like you can find a path. But then if you check the bike routes map, which is also in the chat, then you say, okay, well, this is actually not safe because there's no way to cross this highway without lifting yourself to some serious traffic. So it's possible, but let's double-check before you commit to an option because what you have in your mind might not be what is in reality. So this map, because it gives you a general idea of the stuff that is nearby. Everything that is really close to campus. It's usually walkable, but a little bit further away to figure out what are their options. And there might be some even further away, like e.g. this thing down here right at the bottom of the map. And you will definitely need a car for that. So you could do it. But unless you find a state, a state bus, or a regional bus option, for the most part you're gonna need a car. Okay. So hopefully that was kind of example. If you have your sleep and you have your budget housing website, where you get an apartment e-mail and find some options. How do you make those decisions? It's not easy, but you can start like basically getting the first step of setting priorities and looking at the different options and categorizing them will be the first step. Being able to get through the next. Thank you. Thank you so much for those guiding principles and tips will be providing those links that you have in the chat are, like we said, a really good place to start. So now that you have all of these things, the question is, what's next? These are our recommended steps. Write down some of your priorities and preferences. What is important for you? Do you prefer to live by yourself or are you okay living with roommates, transportation options, so on and so forth. Start looking at some of these options. In our HTTPS website, housing website, there are some listings that you can take a look at, some links to some of the listings. Start gathering your information to evaluate those options. Look at the reviews, make sure you understand everything that's required. If you need to make some adjustments because now, oh, you found a different place that maybe is bigger or more affordable than you might have to adjust some of your criteria and then make a decision on housing. I will say that the other factor that we probably didn't mention is timing. And we understand that for students who are not in the United States yet, it's, it's, it becomes a very urgent factor of having housing once you arrive in the United States. So sometimes timing of getting a lease as quickly as possible, it might be another factor. Especially nowadays, there might be leases that are already filled up for the next few months. So but once you're here, you can always move next year. There's always options. You're not locked in for four forever more. But I guess the tip here is to don't wait too long because some of these options might disappear if you, if you try to wait too long. So there's a there's a concession that needs to be made. There. Again, what we're trying to provide here are just tips and guidance for you to make your decisions. Unfortunately, we're not able to provide you with recommendations on which housing to go to because everybody has an individual preference and priority. But we're hoping that some of the factors that we're providing in this presentation and some of the the understanding of the different language here in the United States will be helpful as you make your decision to find off-campus housing. Okay? So professor had showed this in a previous slide. But we really do recommend that you take a look at the GPS housing website, but also click on that UD off-campus housing guide. It is a University of Delaware guide that's provided for students who are living off campus. It has a lot more information about understanding the lease and roommate relationships more than we can provide here in this webinar. So if you do have time, we really recommend that you read this off campus living guide. And you'll see some of the different options that might be also listed in that PDF. So highly recommend that one as well. So as we are nearing the end of our presentation, I wanted to provide a reminder that there are still two more webinars for January. So next week we'll be talking about managing your finances, mainly as it relates to opening a bank account in the United States. This webinar will be held hybrid, so we'll have a Zoom version, but will also be presenting this in-person on campus at gore to, to, to. So if you're already in the United States and you want to be here in person. You're welcome to join us live in-person on-campus. Then the last webinar of January will be held on January 26th. And for this one, we'll be talking about understanding health care in the United States. And this webinar will be presented by the University. University dr. Here at University of Delaware. Please register for each webinar so that you will receive the Zoom links and that website, that website has been put in the chat. As, as. Let me just go back to the last slide. We will be recording the webinar for the health care and putting it on our website, but the one for managing your finances will not be recorded at all. So we really do recommend that you attend this one live because we will not be putting out the recording of the video on our website, but the one for help understanding health care will be recorded and will be posted on our before you arrive website. Okay. Next slide. If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. We're open from Monday to Friday, 08:00 A.M. to 05:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time or centered time. You can send us an email at OSS at u del dot edu. Some of you probably have already done that already. If you have further questions after this webinar, please don't hesitate to contact us. We will be stopping the recording right now. Thank you very much for attending. And we're gonna get into our question-and-answer.

Before You Arrive Webinar 2: Housing - 23S

From Vina Titaley January 12, 2023

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Discuss where to start your search for finding off-campus housing and resources for your search, and get tips from current fellow international students.

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Department Name: Center for Global Programs & Services
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