{"id":57,"date":"2006-08-01T09:32:36","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T13:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realst8.crankpin.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2006-08-10T12:47:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T16:47:16","slug":"housing-options-near-local-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/real-estate\/housing-options-near-local-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Options Near Local Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notre Dame room and board<\/a> is now $8,730 per year. Divide this by 12 months and you find a monthly price of $727.50. We divide by a full 12 months because though you only live on campus for eight months, room and board does include a meal plan. We’ll consider that those two factors cancel each other and remove them from our calculations.<\/p>\n

A simple mortgage calculator<\/a> plugged in with today’s rate of 6.70% for a 30-year mortgage reveals you can finance a $110,000 house for $709.81\/month (principal and interest). $110,000 will buy you the pictured 3 bedroom<\/a> 1,161 square foot brick house with a garage.<\/p>\n

If you’re a student, let this be your first lesson and consider your options. You can share a room with one person and a bath\\shower with a whole floor of people. Or, for about the same money, you can live in a house, where you can decorate, have a pet, rent to a roommate, then sell it when you graduate. Now that’s the smart thing to do.<\/p>\n

As of August 1st, there are 28 properties for sale within one mile of the Golden Dome. You can see their details here<\/a>, or contact me by e-mail, nick@realst8.com<\/a>. We can also find affordable and better-than-a-dorm homes near any of the area’s other schools: IUSB, Bethel College, St. Mary’s College, Holy Cross or Ivy Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Notre Dame room and board is now $8,730 per year. Divide this by 12 months and you find a monthly price of $727.50. We divide by a full 12 months because though you only live on campus for eight months, room and board does include a meal plan. We’ll consider that those two factors cancel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notre-dame","category-real-estate","category-south-bend"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}