Yup. The effect of 15% of the city’s population being students works it’s way to all corners of the real estate market here. I currently live in an apartment building that contains 0% students and is pretty squarely out of reach of most students price-wise - nonetheless, property owners here are conditioned to turn everything over on 9/1 at all costs.
Allston Christmas is more like the week before September first. With a guaranteed UHaul on Storrow that got its roof torn off.
Best part of Sep 1st is the vids of moving trucks getting can-opened on Storrow Drive.
That looks to me as though dropping the road 10" would solve the problem nicely.
That would let people drive trucks on Storrow, and they aren't supposed to do that. It gets enough traffic as it is/
Hmm I thought moving day in Boston is Sep 1?
Yes, it’s Sep 1 because of all the university students starting school around then. I’ve heard that 80% of available rentals are for a Sep 1 move-in.
confirmed, sept 1. did it twice. i am a legend at moving as a result.
You mean September 1st right? June 1st is also a big moving day.
your thinking of Alston Christmas which is September 1. Every lease I had in Somerville, Medford, Cambridge, and Quincy all were for September 1.