Your Summer Sublet

By Lev Novak

It’s the summer, and that means barbecues, ice cream, cheap cold beer, and sweat.

For many of you, though, it’s apartment time.

You might hate it, but we love it. Dog; this is our NBA playoffs. We live for this. If you are on uCribs, I am thrilled in advance at how awesome we’re going to make this for you. You’re going to want to get a uCribs tattoo when this is all over.

But before you ship off to our main site and find one, let’s talk about what you need.

1. A Priority

In the summer, everyone gets so stuck on freedom that they forget the purpose of schedules and obligations. Not having to do anything often leads to doing nothing, so before you get a sublet just to have one, consider carefully if you have a reason to get it.

Now, nobody gets apartments willy-nilly, so you obviously have a reason. But what are the priorities? Being near the lake for the summer? Being near friends? Saving money? Being out of the house at all costs so you don’t stay with your parents when school is out? All valid. All good. All different places.

Narrow your search for the precise gains you want because a sublet is short. For a longer apartment, balance is important- for the summer, forget it. Live in a shack by the lake. Live with one extra friend who stays on the couch to save money (do not be the friend on the couch, it is way worse in practice than it is in theory.)

Slam your priority down and forget balance. It’s the summer.

2. Air Conditioning

Save money elsewhere. Drink at home, not at bars. Get a job if you have to. All I know is if you’re sweating in your sleep for months on end, if you’re burning and sticky and miserable, you have wasted your summer.

Just get air conditioning, man. A fan is never as good as you think.

3. Do It Now

Summer just…happens on people. And, to get ahead of them, you have to make an effort and get it done now.

I know, I know. It’s only April, it’s Midterms, it’s…the perfect time to cut ahead of everyone else so you don’t have a panic scramble May 25th.

Don’t wait for shorts weather to have your apartment settled for the summer. Have the perfect place because summer apartments and sublets are crucially rare. A lake cabin for a guy with a car and a grill sounds pretty awesome. It will sound awesome to thousands of people currently taking midterms. Move fast.

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