It was an opportunity that presented itself at the last minute.

Although your 20-year old daughter had intended to stay in Louisiana for the summer, an interesting Skype phone call session in her genetics class planted a literal seed for another option. Instead of staying in the town where her liberal arts college was located and working at a local sports camp, the in class internet chat presented a far more interesting, and educational, opportunity.
In the course of the online presentation from a genetics lab in Arizona the “visiting” professor discussed the possibility of having a couple of students accompany the Louisiana genetics professor for a summer internship. the internship would have to be relatively short, but even a six week opportunity to work on the genetics project exploring the human genome would be worth it. It was a lot to get figured out in a short amount of time, but the challenge was kind of fun. Educational as well. With everything from apartment guides to lists of available grants, your daughter and her genetics professor started exploring their options. Could they find a way to get at least enough grant money to cover airline tickets and course fees? Could the use the online apartment guides to decide if they could pay for rental spaces if it was too late to get into one of the dorms?
Both you and your husband convinced your daughter that just the process of exploring the options was worth her time. Organizing grant writing proposals, negotiating course credits between two different institutions, and understanding the necessary deposits and rental fees would all be valuable at some point. As parents, you pointed out that even if she would not be able to get all of these things to fall into place this year, it was a great way to get a head start on the process for the next summer.
After both your daughter and her professor worked tirelessly to find all of the available options, they were unexpectedly rewarded. It turned out that another intern, who was supposed to be traveling to Arizona from the East Coast for the genome project, had a change of plans. With the funds for that vacant position now available, your daughter was able to add these to the funds that she obtained from other local grants to cover the majority of the costs. The student housing fees that were not covered could be paid through her college fund, and within just a few weeks your daughter had a fully funded genetics internship that would serve her well in graduate school applications her senior year.

Even more exciting, during her time spent looking at apartment guides and other housing rentals she even found a pretty sweet deal for you, your husband, and high school aged daughter so that you could come out for a three week visit before the summer temperatures really kicked into gear!
Americans are often rather transient. From college students who are looking for a short term rental location to adults who are moving for a new job, considering some of these statistics and facts:

• 35.9 million Americans move every single year.
• 9.8% of Americans who moved relocated within the same state. , moved from the US to another country.
• 1.5% of Americans who moved relocated to a different state.
• 0.337% of Americans who moved relocated from the U.S. to a different country.
• 14.8% of Americans who moved relocated because they wanted a new or better home or apartment.
• 12 is the average number of times an American will move in a lifetime.
• 50% all moves in the U.S. take place in the summer, between the beginning of the month of May and Labor Day.
• 33% of renters move each year. This translates into one in every three renters who might need the information provided in online or print copies of apartment guides.
• Median monthly gross residential rent in the United States was $934 in 2014 according to the Census American Community Service (ACS) survey.
• 36.90% of households were renters according to the 2014 Census ACS data.

Are you getting ready to locate? Will it be a short term or long term contract? Perhaps it is time for you to consult a local apartment guide.